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Fairfield Upward Sports will be holding Registration and Evaluations for the Upward Basketball and Cheer Season for boys and girls enrolled in kindergarten through 6th grade. Evaluations will be held at Fairfield Cumberland Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, January 4th and Thursday, January 5th, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm. Registration forms can be completed prior to the mandatory evaluation. The Upward season will kick off with practices the week of January 29th. The first game day is February 11th and the season will conclude March 11th. Registration fee for the Upward Season is $40. Basketball p...

Notice has been given that a lottery to determine ballot placement for the Consolidated Election to be held April 4, 2023 will be conducted on Wednesday, December 21 at 9:00 a.m. This lottery will be held for 2nd Ward Aldermen candidates who filed simultaneously at City Hall at 7:00 a.m. Monday, December 12th. The lottery will be conducted in the office of City Clerk Tina Hutchcraft, Local Election Official for the City of Fairfield. The Albion Area Chamber of Commerce is taking nominations for their Business of the Year, Person of the Year and Non-Profit of the Year. Nominations are open to a...

On June 19 at 5:08 a.m., Fairfield Fire Department firefighters were alerted to a structure fire at 407 NW 5th Street in Fairfield. The first arriving unit arrived three minutes after dispatch observing fire coming from a bedroom on the NE corner of the residence. Fire was quickly knocked down and overhaul was performed. The residence did not have utilities hooked up at the time of the fire with the structure sustaining fire, heat and smoke damage. The fire is under investigation by the Illinois State Fire Marshals Office. Firefighters cleared the scene at 7:42 a.. FFD was assisted by Fairfiel...

Courtesy of sister station WFIW/WOKZ News’ Jeff Vaughan 40-year-old Ray E. Tate was sentenced to natural life in prison without parole today in Wayne County Circuit Court. He pleaded guilty last month to the first-degree murder of Wayne County Deputy Sean Riley, who was operating […]

40-year-old Ray E. Tate, Jr., appeared in Wayne County Circuit Court for arraignment yesterday afternoon. He faces 38 counts in connection to the death of Wayne County Deputy Sean Riley in December: 36 counts of first-degree murder, one count of aggravated vehicular hijacking, and one […]