Category Archives: Local News

Families in the Wayne City area can look forward to a special Easter treat this year, thanks to the Wayne City Ruritan Club. The club is offering an Easter egg hiding service, where members will hide ...

The Cisne FFA chapter achieved an impressive second place finish at the District 5 Varsity Parliamentary Procedure Leadership Development Event, held March 26th at Southern Illinois University Carbond...

Wayne County 4-H, in partnership with the Emerging Leaders Club, is inviting Cloverbud-aged children to a hands-on creative workshop where participants will make their own Tie Dye Flowers. The event i...

After a cool start to the weekend, a warmup is expected to begin next week, according to forecasters at the National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky. They say rain chances should move back into t...

House committee members advanced parts of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker's legislative agenda this week, though in many cases lawmakers did concede that they would need to amend their bills to gain b...

  Michelle Wiseman, Edwards County High School Agriculture Teacher and FFA Advisor, participated in a three-day advocacy event as part of hundreds of career and technical education (CTE) professi...

  ProTek Fiber is undertaking a major infrastructure project to install 700 miles of fiber, delivering direct fiber-to-the-home service for more than 10,000 households, farms, businesses, and com...

On Thursday in Wayne County Circuit Court, Lake Bittles, 24, of Sims, admitted to violating a previous two-year probation order stemming from a 2023 charge of Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine. J...

The Wayne County Sheriff's Department arrested 65-year-old Marvin D. Legg on Thursday afternoon on a Wayne County warrant for Failure to Appear and Contempt of Court. Later that day, Legg was sentence...

Area communities and youth are encouraged to attend a special worship event to be held this Sunday, March 29th at 6pm at The Bridge Church, located on IL Hwy 15 west of Fairfield. Webber High School S...