Category Archives: Local News

The Fairfield Community High School District Board of Education is scheduled to meet Thursday at 6pm in the FCHS Study Hall. Items on the agenda include: action on the Consent Agenda, Fairfield Mayor,...

Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois is excited to announce that the sweetest weekend of the year is here - National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend. If you haven't gotten your freezers stocked up yet, they hav...

Residents in the area have the opportunity to learn essential safe hunting practices through the Illinois Department of Natural Resources' hunter safety certification course. To complete the course an...

The Edwards County Farm Bureau Young Leaders Scholarship Trap Shoot will be held on Saturday, March 1st at the Edwards County Sportsman's Club. The shoot will start at 9:00am and the shoot is to raise...

Enrollment is now open for the 15th IPRB Summer Math & Science Teachers Program, scheduled for June 24th to 27th in Mt. Vernon. This program is available to Illinois math and science teachers for ...

The Mount Vernon Elks 819, along with Fairfield Elks 1631, Centralia Elks 493, , Salem Elks 1678, and McLeansboro Elks 1882 Lodges, in cooperation with the Illinois Elks Children's Care Corporation, w...

Here's the current river stages according to the US Geological Survey. Little Wabash east of Fairfield stands at 22.46 feet (flood stage is at 17 ft.) . The Skillet Fork at Wayne City has a reading of...

  Illinois State Police (ISP) Troop 9 Commander, Captain Nathan Douglas, announces the ISP will conduct Distracted Driving Enforcement Program patrols in Marion and Wayne counties during March. T...

The IECC Board of Trustees meeting was held January 21st in Bob Boyles Hall on the campus of Frontier Community College with a light agenda. IECCEA Representative, Nixie Hnetkovsky thanked administrat...

Students from 12 area high schools competed in the 2025 Academic Challenge for Engineering and Science Competition held at Olney Central College, sponsored by Eastern Illinois University. Division Res...