Wayne City High News Today

Effingham, IL-(Effingham Radio)- Wabash is proud to announce the recipients of the 2024 Wabash Communications ...

Wayne County VFW Memorial Post 4535 of Fairfield has announced this year's Voice of Democracy winners. The Voice of Democracy is the VFW's premier scholarship

The Wayne-White County Electric Cooperative for the 2nd year in a row will be awarding 10 $500 scholarships at their annual meeting. That meeting is set for June 9th at Wayne City High School. To be eligible, each student who enters must be the son or daughter of an active cooperative member. While sons or daughters of cooperative employees are ineligible, grandchildren are eligible. The scholarship recipients will be selected through a random drawing from all of the applications received. Only ...

The Fairfield City Council will hold their regular meeting on Tuesday, October 11 at 6:00pm at city hall, with a public hearing to take place prior to the meeting at 5:50pm. The public hearing is in regard to rezoning property at 1010 West Court & 110 NW 11th streets and bid opening for sale of city owned property. In routine business the council will discuss an ordinance for the sale of city owned property, for the auxiliary police building, and ordinance to rezone property from an R-2 to a...

The Wayne-White Electric Cooperative held its annual meeting Friday at Wayne City High School. CEO Chris Hopfinger announced there would be no electricity rate increases this year for Co-op members, unlike several other utilities. Wayne-White will perform a cost of service and rate study later in the summer to see if and when future rate increases would need to be implemented. This will mark the ninth consecutive year Wayne-White will not have a rate increase. Wayne-White then announced more cap...

The Wayne County Chamber of Commerce held a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday morning for the new McDonald's building in Fairfield. Concrete work began yesterday, and construction on the new facility is anticipated to be completed on or near August 2nd. The new building will be located at the same address and will have the same orientation, but it will be shifted south. The current building will remain open for the majority of the work, but it will be closed for about a week as construction...

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 23,246 new confirmed and probable cases of coronavirus disease in Illinois, including 198 additional deaths. Illinois has had only 2 days during the pandemic with more deaths, both occurred on December of 2020. The IDPH reported 59 new cases of COVID-19 in Wayne County last week. Case numbers in Edwards County jumped by 21, Wabash County by 60, and Hamilton County by 25. Richland County cases increased by 91, Lawrence County by 80, and White Coun...