Category Archives: Local News

The Wayne County Senior Center Fall Fundraiser fish dinner sale is scheduled for Friday, September 6th. The event begins at 5pm until they sell out and this will be DRIVE THRU only. Fish dinner includ...

The Fairfield Community High School Class of 1974 is sponsoring a morning of Pickleball during Homecoming weekend on Saturday, October 5th at 8am at the Lakeside Park Tennis Courts. This is for anyone...

The Fairfield Community High School District Board of Education will meet Thursday night in the FCHS Study Hall. Items on the meeting agenda include; approval of the Consent Agenda, the Principal's an...

The Fairfield City Council meets tonight (Tuesday) at 6 p.m. at Fairfield City Hall. Along with the routine items, items appearing on the official agenda for tonight's meeting include an update on the...

The Albion City Council met in special session last (Monday) night to discuss the closing of a bridge that is in need of repair just west of Albion off of the Red Hill Blacktop. There seems to be some...

Wayne County Sheriff's Department and Illinois State Police responded to a residence North of Keenes Sunday night at approximately 8:20 on a report of a subject firing numerous rounds inside the resid...

62-year-old Timothy Hutcheson of Fairfield was arrested by Wayne County Sheriff's Deputies Saturday night on numerous charges. Just after 7 o'clock, deputies responded to a possible fight in progress ...

On Saturday night, an earthquake occurred near Enfield adding to the unusual seismic activity experienced in Illinois and Missouri this year. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) confirmed that ...

Wayne County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a one vehicle crash early Sunday morning just 1 o'clock Southwest of Fairfield at 1682 County Road 800N in Big Mound Township. Deputies says a 2013 Chevrol...

On Friday, Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced $15 million in funding for 33 organizations across Illinois through the Job Training a...