Category Archives: Local News

The House Of Prayer at 230 N. 5th St. in Albion along with Northside Baptist Church in Fairfield both are once again a drop-off location for Operation Christmas Child. . Samaritan's Purse has collecte...

Wayne County Crimestoppers is offering a reward for the person or persons who entered a storage building owned by Robert Buchanan south of Wayne City. Taken from the heist, Apache 22 rifle black/nickl...

The next regular meeting of the Center Street Grade School Board of Education is set for Monday. Items on the board agenda include various reports, along with a Tentative Tax Levy, a Property Tax Reli...

The New Hope Grade School Board is set to meet this Tuesday night beginning at 6 p.m. Items appearing on their agenda under the Superintendent's Report include a Property Tax Relief Grant, the IL Repo...

Carmi police report two arrests made earlier this week. This past Monday they say they investigated an incident at the Stewart Street apartment complex, which led to the arrest of 25 year old Ethyn Hi...

Published reports say the Hamilton and White County Senior Citizen's Centers will be forced to cut back on days they will be open starting December 1st due to inadequate funding. According to a news r...

Area river stages remain on the low side despite rainfall in the region in recent days. Here's the latest stages as of this morning: the Little Wabash River east of Fairfield is at 7.39 feet,below the...

62-year-old, Donald E. Wilhite Jr. of Fairfield was sentenced yesterday (Thursday) in Wayne County Circuit Court. Wilhite was awaiting sentence on Possession of Methamphetamine charges dating back to ...

At Tuesday night's meeting of the Cisne Village Board, it was announced that the Christmas in the Park event will take place on Friday night, December 6th. Village Clerk Vicky Mugrage requested a $500...

The Village Board of Enfield met Tuesday night, primarily focusing on the future of the Booth School, which they took control of during last month's meeting. Board members spent about an hour discussi...