The Marion County Health Department has two more positive COVID-19 cases. That brings the number in the county to 82. Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow says the two latest positive cases are a female in her 30s and a male in his teens. Both were already in quarantine due to contact with a Jasper County…… Read More »
Salem and Odin Firemen fight fire in a vacant mobile home in the Southern Gardens Mobile Home Park in Salem early Tuesday morning. Fire heavily damaged a mobile home undergoing renovation at the Southern Gardens Mobile Home Park in Salem early Tuesday morning. Salem Fire Protection District Fire Marshal Bill Fulton says the fire appears…… Read More »
Centralia Police have arrested two people on outstanding warrants. 46-year-old Charles Hamburg who told police he was homeless was arrested on a failure to appear warrant for failing to show up for sentencing on a felony theft case. Bond on the warrant is set at $50,000. 30-year-old Samantha Horton of Maryland Drive in Centralia was…… Read More »
Centralia residents will be asked in the November election to approve a half-cent sales tax increase to pay for new fire equipment. City Manager Lowell Crow had studied the size of the tax increase that would be necessary to pay for a new aerial truck and new pumper truck that are scheduled to arrive in the…… Read More »
With little discussion, but with compliments to the new city manager and department heads for their work, the Centralia city council Monday night approved large budget cuts. City Manager Lowell Crow blamed sagging revenues at least partially from COVID-19 for making the cuts necessary. “We do have a balanced budget. We have cuts in the…… Read More »
