Fairfield Memorial Hospital honors an employee each month who has been nominated by their peers for providing extraordinary patient care and customer services within and outside of the Hospital. Japheth Rush, who works in Security, was selected as the May 2025 Employee of the Month. Japheth has been with Fairfield Memo...

The Fairfield City Band will once again be having it's Summer Concert Series. The concerts will take place on the Wayne County Courthouse Lawn (weather permitting) every Thursday evening at 7 pm. The first concert will take place Thursday June 7th and the last one will be on Thursday July the 3rd and will be patriotic...

Brookstone Estates, Fairfield's assisted living facility, will mark a major milestone on Saturday, June 7th as it celebrates its 25th anniversary with a community event. Festivities will begin at 11:00 a.m. at the Brookstone Estates facility located at 315 Market Ave just west of Fairfield. Guests will enjoy a catered ...

Three directors will be elected during the 88th annual meeting of the Wayne-White Counties Electric Cooperative on Friday, June 6th in the Wayne City High School Gym. All three candidates are running unopposed: Ken Lamont, District 4: Lamont is seeking his fourth term. Richard Talbert, District 8: Talbert is running...

On Thursday, 05/29/2025, at approximately Noon, The Wayne County Sheriff's Office joined in a pursuit on Interstate 64 coming from Jefferson County. Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and Mt. Vernon Police Department were attempting to apprehend Reggie Shemwell and Danielle Adams for the Wayne County Sheriff's Office as...

The Gibson County Sheriff's Department has confirmed there are multiple people dead after a shooting in Haubstadt, in Gibson County. They say multiple calls came in around 8:30 p.m. for shots fired at a home in the area of South Scottsdale Drive. Sheriff Bruce Vanonven says a suspect was taken into custody as soon as t...

The Frontier Community College Bobcats Volleyball team will host the Red, White, and Blue Senior All-Star Volleyball Tri-Match on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at Center Street School in Fairfield, Illinois. High school seniors from southern Illinois and beyond will compete in a series of matches showcasing their skills before...

The Fairfield Senior Living and Rehab Facility will be holding a Car Show and Open House, Saturday June 7th, from 10 am to 2 pm to celebrate their Grand Opening. There will be 3 Top Choice Trophies and 10 Resident's Choice Trophies awarded as well as Plaques awarded to the first 20 cars. The cars will be lined up in fr...

After more than a decade of dedicated leadership, Dr. Jay Edgren, President of Frontier Community College and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs for Illinois Eastern Community Colleges (IECC), will retire effective Monday, June 30, 2025. In recognition of his 11 years of service to Frontier and his longstanding commit...

A meeting of the Edwards County Commisssioners is scheduled for this coming Monday, June 2nd, starting at 9 am at the Edwards County Courthouse. Items appearing on the meeting agenda, include approval of the minutes from the previous meeting, the appointment of Road District Clerks for Road District #2 and Road Distric...

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD St. Louis Cardinals 1 Texas Rangers 11 Chicago Cubs 2 Cincinnati Reds 6 The Chicago Cubs remain atop the Central Division standings with a 3 game lead over the St. Louis Cardinals. In other Major League Baseball action Friday: Chicago White Sox 1 ...

Several FCHS Boys Track Athletes were in action yesterday at the IHSA State Track Meet at Eastern Illinois University. The Mules 4x200 relay team of Michael Barner, Miller Simpson, Jude Carter and Justin Johnson on broke the school record with a time of 1:33.35. The previous record of 1:33.9 had stood for 67 years and...

HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASEBALL SECTIONAL SCORES CLASS 1A SECTIONALS: Casey-Westfield 13, Nokomis 5 Steeleville 1, Goreville 0 Waltonville/S-V 6, Hardin Co 4 CLASS 2A SECTIONALS: DuQuoin 9, Harrisburg 2 Teutopolis 7, Breese Central 4 West Frankfort 2, Pinckneyville 1 CLASS 3A REGIONALS: Centralia 6, Mt Vernon 4 Effingham 9, ...

GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT SCORES FROM TUESDAY CLASS 1A (Sectional): Arcola 2, Salt Fork 0 Casey-Westfield 6, South Central 0 (5th) Elverado 8, Goreville 5 Hardin Calhoun 6, Dupo 0 Windsor/Stew-Stras 8, Edwards County 2 CLASS 2A (Sectional): Anna-Jonesboro 8, Johnston City 4 Columbia 3, Robinson 1 Newton 5, ...

MLB Baltimore 5 St. Louis 2 The Cardinals are in second place in the NL Central with a 30-and-24 record. Andre Pallante starts for St. Louis is tonight's contest, which gets underway at 5:35PM. Chicago Cubs 3 Colorado 1 Chicago leads the National League Central with a record of 33-and-21. The Northsiders send Cade Hort...