Marion County has been removed from the Illinois Department of Public Health’s warning level list. The county had been included for one week when their rate of positivity jumped over 8-percent. It was back down to 6.4-percent this week. Clinton County is repeating again and continues to have the highest positivity in the region at…… Read More »
The Marion County Health Department reported five new cases of COVID-19 on Friday. Health Department Administrator Melissa Mallow says three of the cases are community spread and the other two were likely from household contacts. The five are all reported doing well and are on isolation. With the five new cases, Marion County now has…… Read More »
The City of Salem Public Works Department has set City Wide Clean Up for the week of Monday, October fifth. The City’s residential trash hauler will pick up an amount equal to one pickup truckload of normal household items that are set at the curb on your normal trash day during cleanup week ONLY. Each residential customer…… Read More »
Marion County Clerk Steve Fox normally expects four or five show up on the first day of early voting, but that was much different on Thursday. Fox reported a short line most of the day as 133 cast ballots by the time the clerk’s office closed. In order to social distance, early voting has been…… Read More »
A 34-year-old Centralia man has been sentenced in Marion County Court to seven years in prison for aggravated battery to a police officer. Jerry Ezebuiroh of Martin Luther King Drive had been convicted in July for grabbing the arm of a Marion County Jail Correctional Officer in an attempt to get the keys to the…… Read More »
