Alderman Tyler Lampley has announced that all flags in the city are to be flown at half-staff until further notice in honor of the passing of Fairfield Mayor Dr. Mike Dreith. Dr. Michael L. Dreith, age 65, of Fairfield, died Saturday, May 28th. According to the Wayne County Coroner's office, local responders were dispatched to a rural Wayne County location Saturday afternoon. Dr. Dreith was transported by ambulance to Fairfield Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced deceased. Dr. Dreith's manner of death was ruled due to natural causes. Memorial Day services have been set in Fairfield at the Veterans Section in Maple Hill Cemetery. Dave Land will emcee, and Robert Taylor will be the featured speaker. Taylor attended grade school in Mt. Erie and high school in Cisne, has been a pastor at the Mt. Erie Church of the Nazarene for the past seven years, and served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. Wayne City will hold Memorial Day services today at 2 at Thomason Cemetery. Sharon White will emcee, and Lamar Choate will be the featured speaker. Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts will pass out pamphlets and recite the pledge of allegiance, Gary Cline and his daughter will offer a prayer and sing the National Anthem, and Chris Draper will announce the veterans buried there during the passed year. The Fairfield VFW and American Legion will also be on hand. Edwards County VFW Memorial Post 8222 will conduct services today to honor veterans. The post will visit 12 cemeteries and hold a service at the courthouse in Albion on Monday. It will begin at Birk Cemetery at 7 a.m. and move to Mt. Zion at 7:15, Wanborough at 7:30, Little Prairie at 7:45, Samaria Baptist at 8, Pleasant Hill at 8:15, West Village at 8:30, Bone Gap at 8:45, Browns at 9, Union at 9:15, Graceland at 9:30, and Old Albion at 9:45. The post will conclude its Memorial Day services with a public program on the Edwards County Courthouse Square in Albion at 10 a.m., weather permitting. All times are approximate. 47-year-old Olney resident Ryan R. Mattingly was sentenced in Wayne County Circuit Court Thursday. He pleaded guilty to a Class 3 felony count of possession of methamphetamine and was sentenced to 18 months probation and time served. A separate case was dismissed per his plea, and Mattingly was ordered to pay $954 in fines and court costs. A 69-year-old Louisville man was injured when his motorcycle struck a deer on US 45 north of the Iola Road in Clay County Sunday morning. State Police say a preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 10:12 Lewis Charlton was traveling south on US 45 north of Iola Road when they struck a deer, causing the motorcycle to be laid down on its right side. Charlton fell off the motorcycle which continued south before coming to rest in the middle of the southbound lane. Charlton was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. River stages as of this morning: the Little Wabash east of Fairfield stands at 18.96 feet, above the 17 ft. flood stage. Meanwhile, the Skillet Fork at Wayne City has a reading of 5.45 feet (flood stage is 15 ft.). The Little Wabash below Clay City is at 7.89 feet (flood stage is 18 ft.). Bonpas Creek at Browns reads 2.09 feet, the Littloe Wabash at Main Street in Carmi reads 13.91 feet, and the Wabash River at Mt. Carmel sits at 15.61 feet.