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Teachers layoffs approved at Collinsville school board
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The Collinsville school board unanimously decided at its Monday, March 18, meeting to lay off 19 teachers and nine support staff. The dismissals, combined with early retirements, will result in a $1.7 million decrease in expenditures in the district's ...
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The Virginian-Pilot
Former local athletes playing in postseason basketball tournaments, Hargrave's ...
The Virginian-Pilot
Law defeated Illinois State's Tyler Brown in the finals. Both Law and Brown ... Even though High Point will play in the CIT, High Point assistant athletic director for sports information Jon Litchfield said the tournament will be over before the dunk ...

Applications taken for veterans' Honor Flight
Canton Daily Ledger
Veterans on this flight come from the Illinois towns of Alton, Auburn, Bartonville, Benson, Brimfield, Bunker Hill, Canton, Carlinville, Carrollton, Chatham, Chillicothe, Clinton, Dawson, Decatur, East Peoria, Elgin, Elmwood, Fairbury, Forrest ...

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Real estate mobile app Ten Eight raises $500000
Atlanta Business Chronicle (blog)
An Atlanta mobile startup that aims to nudge the real estate industry into the digital age, has raised $500,000 in a seed round led by Hamilton Ventures. Ten Eight aims to replace the paper-bound tour book that tenant brokers use, that includes ...
Ten Eight Real Estate Mobile App Raises $500000Realty Today

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Tim's Travels: Famous Footwear
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(KTVI) – Famous Footwear is opening two new locations in St. Louis — one in Lake St. Louis and the other in Collinsville, IL. To celebrate the occasion, Tim Ezell jumped into a pair of high heels and participated in a 30-second race to get as many ...

Illinois man accused of breaking infant son's legs
Belleville News Democrat
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — A southwestern Illinois man is jailed on a felony count alleging he broke the legs of his infant son. Madison County prosecutors have charged 24-year-old Matthew Barnett of Granite City with one count of aggravated battery of a child.

Major's MAR RISING re-issued as Illustrated Edition
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The Persistence of Memory premiered at the Miners Theatre in Collinsville, Illinois in 1992. “Part of the excitement for me as the author is to see other people's imaginations of the Mars Rising characters and universe,” said Major, “and I hope readers ...

Local teens helping shape education policy
The State Journal-Register
PORTA High senior Taylor Rossi and Litchfield High senior Kristin Ishmael represent their peers on a board designed to give teens a voice in their education. Taylor and Kristin are on the Student Advisory Council, which offers opinions to the Illinois ...

BOYS' BASKETBALL: Trophy was long time in making for Tigers
The Edwardsville Intelligencer
Only four champions and four third place winners can say that in the state of Illinois. It was the first state boys' ... Shawn Roundtree, Tre Harris and Curtis all grew up together in the Huntington Place subdivision in Glen Carbon. They first stepped ...

HPU's Law shows right stuff
High Point Enterprise
Law defeated Tyler Brown of Illinois State in the final round. Law said he did not personally wage a campaign to be selected. “I didn't,” Law said. “(HPU sports publicists) Jon Litchfield and Erika Carrubba did a great job getting the students to vote ...

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Collinsville school board meets to consider $1.7 million in personnel cuts
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In Illinois, teachers must be notified by April 1 if there is a possibility the district will not renew their contract for the new school year. In many cases, teachers are called back before school starts once administrators have a better picture of ...

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Million-dollar lottery ticket sold in Edwardsville
Alton Telegraph
As of late Monday morning, that winner of the Illinois Lottery's St. Patrick's Day Raffle had not made his or her appearance. Employees of the convenience store-gas station, 629 W. Schwarz St., kept a lookout for a particularly happy-looking customer ...

Illinois-Missouri all-star wrestling meet set for tonight at Edwardsville
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The annual East-West All-Star Challenge will be held at 7 p.m. today at the Jon Davis Wrestling Center on the campus of Edwardsville High. The meet will match the best senior wrestlers from the metro St. Louis area against the best senior wrestlers ...

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A 17-year-old Glen Carbon teen has been charged with spray painting parts of Madison County Transit District’s Nickel Plate Trail, near Glen Carbon’s Miner Park. Damage to several sections of the asph

It was reported in Saturday's Intelligencer that the Optimus development group is seeking a rezoning classification on a 30-plus acre parcel of land on the southeast corner of Route 157 and Meridian R

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John Dale Stobbs, Attorney at Law
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Alton, Illinois…John Dale Stobbs, of Stobbs, Sinclair & Associates has been selected to the 2013 Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in each state are selected to receive this honor. Stobbs has been named to this ...