Author Archives: Mark Wells

Fairfield Memorial Hospital honors an employee each month who has been nominated by their peers for providing extraordinary patient care and customer services within and outside of the Hospital. Brook...

Pictured left to right are the FMH mammography technologists: Melinda Bunting, R.T.(R)(M)(ARRT) RDMS (AB/OB/GYN) RDCS (AE); Malaney McWilliams R.T.(R)(M)(CT)(ARRT) Olivia Lasswell, R.T.(R)(ARRT) and B...

Illinois is sorting through a number of submissions for its state flag redesign contest. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced that nearly five-thousand state flag redesign entries w...

HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL REGIONALS: Fairfield Lady Mules play the Newton Lady Eagles tonight (Thursday) for the Class 2A Newton Regional Championship with the winner advancing to the Fairfield Sectional...

Wayne County Chamber of Commerce will be conducting a ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday, November 4th at 3:15pm at the new M-Pressions Dance Productions located at 906 Leininger Road, just east of the...

William Edward Danis, 71, of Mt. Vernon, IL passed away on Monday, October 28, 2024 at his home in Mt. Vernon. He was born on December 15, 1952 in Chicago, IL to Robert & Barbara Danis. William wo...

Shirley Sue (Heninger) Itskin, 87, of Batesville, IN passed away on Tuesday, October 29, 2024. She graduated from Palestine, IL HS and Vincennes University IN. She was a member of the Sunman Bible Chu...

Teresa "Terri" Sue Paul, age 66, of Flora, Illinois, passed away Sunday night, October 27, 2024, at Flora Gardens Care Center. She was born September 8, 1958, in Salem, the daughter of Charles Harriso...

89-year-old JoAnn Gaither, of Grayville, Illinois went to be with her Lord, October 29, 2024. Daughter of the late Forest and Mayme Johnson. JoAnn was born on September 14, 1935 in Ellery, IL. JoAnn l...

Wayne County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 24-year-old Joshua L. Smothers of Mill Shoals Tuesday afternoon on a Wayne County Petition to Revoke warrant on separate charges including; Criminal Damage to ...