Chris Rhodes is a photographer and reporter for RiverBender and EdGlenToday.com. He is a graduate of Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, IL with a degree in Criminal Justice. He also runs the Madison County Scanner Page.
Chris loves camping,fishing, and photography. Chris is an Eagle Scout and lives in East Alton.
HARDIN - Volunteers are needed in large capacity in Hardin to help prepare the area for upcoming projected flood levels, said officials Wednesday morning. Illinois River levels are presently at 37.5 feet and projected to reach 40.4 feet as of Tuesday, June 4. The all-time record for river level...
BELLEVILLE – O’Fallon jumped out to a 6-0 lead, scoring four times in the first and twice more in the second, and went on to defeat Edwardsville 7-1 in the IHSA Class 4A Normal Community sectional semifinal at Belleville East’s Rita Menke Field Tuesday afternoon. The Panthers...
WOOD RIVER - The Wood River Fire Department was called to a scene of a van fire that spread to another vehicle Tuesday morning in the Medicine Shoppe parking lot in Wood River. The firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, which caused serious damage. The Medicine Shoppe is located at 901 E. Edwardsvill...
ST. LOUIS - The crests predicted by next week in the Riverbend will be higher than any historic level in the area short of 1993. Meteorologists at the National Weather Service (NWS) have been utilizing the next 48 hours of predicted rainfall instead of only 24 hours as was previously used...
CHARLESTON – Granite City High distance runner Andrew O’Keefe won the Class 3A 1,600 meter race at the IHSA boys state track meet on Saturday at O’Brien Stadium on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, coming in with a time of 4:13.50. O’Keefe became the...
CHARLESTON – Edwardsville distance runner Roland Prenzler, building off a very successful cross-country season this past fall, finished ninth for the Tigers in the Class 3A 3,200 meter run in the IHSA boys state track and field meet on Saturday afternoon at O’Brien Stadium at Eastern...
CHARLESTON - Alton and Collinsville's main entries in the IHSA State Track and Field Meet at Charleston posted strong showings on Saturday. Collinsville’s Jermarrion Stewart was second in the 100 meters with a time of 10.54 seconds, just finishing behind Plainfield North’s Marcellus...
CHARLESTON - Edwardsville's two athletes in the IHSA Class 3A Track and Field Finals seniors Roland Prenzler and Kenyon Johnson both finished in the top 12. The Tigers' Johnson was 12 th in the triple jump, going 45’ 3.75” and Edwardsville's Roland Prenzler finished ninth in the 3,200...
CHARLESTON - Edwardsville's Kenyon Johnson was Edwardsville's qualifier from the IHSA Class 3A Track and Field Meet prelims on Friday afternoon to Saturday's state finals. Junior Kenyon Johnson qualified in the triple jump (45-3.75), but did not advance in the long jump (22-03). Andrew...
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