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Fairfield Memorial Hospital's 3D Mobile Mammography Unit will be out in service at Fairfield Memorial Hospital on Saturday, March 16th from 8 AM until noon. Officials say that no physician order is ne...

The Wayne County Chamber of Commerce has announced a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Fairfield Community Health Center. The event will take place on Friday, March 15th at 1 PM at...

The Fairfield Rural Fire Department has established The Logan Kreiter Memorial Scholarship available to all FCHS seniors this spring. Logan joined the Fairfield Rural Fire Department when he was in Hi...

New Hope Water customers in the area of county road 1800 East from County Highway 8 to 200 North and West of 1800 East under a boil order until further notice. The order is due to a water line that ha...

Wayne County Emergency Management is reporting an earthquake took place in Southern Illinojs on Tuesday. The quake happened at 10:34 AM with the epicenter 3.7 miles east of Pinkneyville in Perry Count...

A Fairfield man is behind bars in the White County Jail after Carmi Police arrested him Monday morning on the corner of Oak and 6th. According to authorities, 40 year old Edward Riley was taken into c...

The Albion City Council met in a regular session Monday night. The council under visitors on business heard from Nick to Patel from Carmi. Patel owns a packaged liquor store in Carmi and would like to...

The FCHS Board of Education met Monday evening in special session. In personnel matters, Peyton Bates was hired as a Social Science Instructor for the 2024-2025 school year. Bates is from Sesser, IL a...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture ha announced that agricultural producers can now make election changes to their Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2024 c...

The CDC has announced the streamlining of COVID-19 guidance for isolation to be in line with all respiratory viruses. The following are the new guidelines for those with COVID-19: If you are sick, ple...