Category Archives: Local News

Jordan Davis will headline the Illinois State Fair Grandstand this summer. The award-winning singer-songwriter will be performing August 13th. Davis recently earned his sixth career number-one with hi...

Illinoisans are being encouraged to take advantage of savings offered by the newly expanded Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit. The EITC is a benefit that helps low to moderate income workers get a tax...

Illinois lawmakers are pushing to eliminate the subminimum wage for tipped workers. The proposed legislation would raise the hourly rate for tipped workers to minimum wage. The measure would phase out...

The Albion city council met in a special session Tuesday night to discuss the proposed agreement with w2e to sell water to the city of Albion and the city of Grayville once the new water filtration pl...

Crimestoppers of Wayne County is offering a reward for the arrest of the person or persons who entered a rented storage building by Marvin Bailey and removed from the storage building oxygen & ac...

The Illinois Athletic Trainers Association on Tuesday announced their yearly awards on the athletic trainer at Fairfield Community High School is on the list of honorees. Sarah Turner is the athletic ...

On Friday, at 2:54 a.m. the Clay County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to Vic's Caf in Wendelin for a burglary in progress. Upon the arrival of deputies it was discovered the suspect(s) had fled from...

The Norris City Village Board met Monday Evening. The board was originally going to approve two alley closures, but Willie Gladd, who was involved in one of them, addressed the board asking them to co...

The Albion City Council met Monday night and voted to approve the first reading of a 14 page document to finalize the agreementwith the W2E water. This agreement is an agreement to sell water to the c...

The Albion park board Monday night voted to accept a donation from the farm bureau in the amount of 3000 the money came from a rural development grant. The board voted to lay the first installment of ...