Collinsville Illinois

Metro East athletes participate in Special Olympics Illinois Summer Games
SuburbanJournals
McKenna Bair, of Collinsville, third place in the women's gymnastics all-around, first place in balance beam, fourth place in floor exercise, third place in uneven bars, first place in vaulting. Collinsville School District, Collinsville. 50 meter run ...

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Granite City education news for the week of June 21
SuburbanJournals
Ninth grade: Victoria Harrison, Granite City; Jason Johnson, Edwardsville; Annie Keirn, Collinsville; Hannah Landers, Edwardsville; Chase Langendorf, Edwardsville; Brett Masters, Troy; Tenth grade: Alex Carney, Collinsville; Stephanie Faulders ...

US House rejects farm bill
Alton Telegraph
John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, who represents Illinois' 15th Congressional District, also voted in favor of the bill. Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., and No. 2 Democrat Steny Hoyer of Maryland, both of whom voted for the bill, immediately took to ...

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Shiloh, Collinsville and southern St. Clair County to see road improvements
Belleville News Democrat
More than $1.8 million in road projects are slated to begin in Shiloh, Collinsville and rural St. Clair County, according to state officials. The most costly project will resurface more than three miles of Illinois 13 just south of the Kaskaskia River ...

Dillard, in metro-east visit, hints at gubernatorial bid
Belleville News Democrat
COLLINSVILLE — An Illinois state senator is planning to throw his bid in for the governor's office and was in Collinsville Thursday morning to meet with local politicians and leaders after catching a Cardinals game Wednesday night with his family.

Collinsville area education news for the week of June 20
SuburbanJournals
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Business graduate students won first place in the 2013 Association for Corporate Growth Mid-America Corporate Growth Conference in May. The SIUE team included business graduate students Stan ...

Collinsville-area arrests for the week of June 19
STLtoday.com
Jonathan S. Mills, 36, of Collinsville, was recently sentenced in federal court to 6-and-a-half years in prison for accessing with intent to view child pornography, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of ...

Collinsville-area military news
SuburbanJournals
Air Force Airman Elizabeth A. Hodge graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. Hodge is the daughter of Dawn Hodge of Creekside Drive, Collinsville. She is a 2012 graduate of Collinsville High School.

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Belleville News Democrat
ESL native selected for NBC internship during Winter Olympics
Belleville News Democrat
Emily Pritchett, second from left, was presented her 2013 Illinois Retired Teachers Association Foundation (Area 6) scholarship check at the local St. Clair County Retired Teachers Association meeting on June 5. ... The awards will benefit 740 students ...

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KSDK
Brussels Ferry, part of IL 100 reopen
KSDK
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (KSDK) - The Brussels Ferry and IL 100 between IL 3 Grafton and IL 16 Hardin has reopened. The IL 3 By-Pass in Randolph County will remain closed at this time. State and local officials are teaming up to clear flood debris and repair ...

Summer festivals abound across Illinois
The Edwardsville Intelligencer
The International Horseradish Festival, July 12 through 20 in Collinsville. Celebrates the humble horseradish root with food booths, a root toss and root golf plus a root sacking contest, Bloody Mary Contest, Little Miss Horseradish Festival Pageant ...

Missouri, Illinois lawmakers make their mark on defense bills
St. Louis Beacon
William “Lacy” Clay, D-St. Louis, John Shimkus, R-Collinsville and Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, Ill., voted with the majority to approve an amendment urging that a vote in Congress be held to authorize any U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan after Dec.

Illinois hosts an array of summer festivals
The Edwardsville Intelligencer
The International Horseradish Festival, July 12 through 20 in Collinsville. Celebrates the humble horseradish root with food booths, a root toss and root golf plus a root sacking contest, Bloody Mary Contest, Little Miss Horseradish Festival Pageant ...

Glider pilot had luck on his side
The Edwardsville Intelligencer
He also taught in Collinsville, served as a principal in Hartford and wound up spending 29 years working for the Illinois State Board of Education. His golden years have seen him return to the sky and to the battlefields of Europe. “I went up in a sail ...

Area sports reports
Belleville News Democrat
Email your sports events, youth league registration and other metro-east recreation news to nsanders@bnd.com, send a fax to 236-9773 or mail them to News-Democrat, P.O. Box 427, 120 S. Illinois St., Belleville, IL 62222. BASEBALL. BASEBALL, SOFTBALL ...

Illinois gets on the board, as it notches 9-7 win over Missouri
SuburbanJournals
Illinois broke through with four runs in the sixth. Cody Massey (Triad) and Graham singled and Chris Mathes (Collinsville) drew a walk. Curtis followed with an RBI infield single to make it 5-4 and then Tindall followed with a two-out three-run triple ...

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CARD seeks new board member and other Collinsville news and events
SuburbanJournals
Letters of interest should be sent or delivered to: Collinsville Area Recreation District, Park Board Vacancy, Attn: Executive Director Terry Wilson, 10 Gateway Drive, Collinsville, IL 62234. Letters must be received by 5 p.m., Friday, June 28. Supply ...

'Woodhenge' summer solstice fete set at Cahokia
The State Journal-Register
The site is in Collinsville in southwest Illinois, about eight miles from downtown St. Louis. It is administered by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. COLLINSVILLE — Visitors to Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site on June 23 will get a glimpse ...

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Langford, Jeanne D.
Herald & Review
NEWTON — Jeanne D. Langford, 91, of Newton, IL passed away at 7:35 AM – Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at St. John's Hospital in Springfield, IL. Visitation will ... Later she was a special education teacher in Collinsville, Springfield and Rose Hill. She ...

'Woodhenge' summer solstice fete set at Cahokia
Belleville News Democrat
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. — Visitors to Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site on June 23 will get a glimpse of a 1,000-year-old sacred celebration of the summer solstice at "Woodhenge." Woodhenge is an arrangement of posts standing in line with sunrise on the ...

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