ALTON - Alton High School's Marching 100 hit the field this week for band camp. For the next couple of weeks the band will prepare for the upcoming season to ensure a successful year. Assistant Band Director Steve James said the band has been focusing on their field show and the musicians aren't...
EDWARDSVILLE - Jilly's Cupcake Bar just celebrated their 10th year in business with cup cakes of course but also a brand new location on Park Street in Edwardsville. "We've been doing this 10 years," Brittney Koch-Dowell, General Manager of Jilly's said. "We finally decided that we didn't want...
GRAFTON - The Loading Dock will be hosting Theresa's Summerfest on July 30 to raise funds for the Sitemen Cancer Center to help improve metastatic breast cancer research. Josh Newby, Founder and Executive Director of Theresa's Research Foundation, said this is the first year of what will be an annua...
ALTON - Crews had to scramble Sunday morning to clean up from the overnight storm to prepare the Liberty Bank Amphitheater for Air Supply Sunday night. "The public workers director let us know that it looked like a bomb went off down here," Robert Stephan, Chairman of the Amphitheater Commission...
ALTON - Snixfest 2017 is underway at the Jacoby Arts Center. From 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. today several area bands and vendors will be gathering at Jacoby to help raise funds for The Sam Biggs Memorial Foundation. Cory Davenport, founder of Snixfest, said he's organized and watched the event evolve...
EDWARDSVILLE - The St. Boniface Choir just returned from a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sing in Rome at the Vatican as part of an international choral fest at the end of June. "A little over a year ago I got and invitation from Music Celebrations International," Choral Director Jill Griffin...
EDWARDSVILLE - Girl Scouts gathered at Camp Torqua this week for their fifth annual STEM Day Camp. Throughout the week, the girls had the opportunity to learn about science, technology, engineering and math with hands on examples. "We have about 56 girls registered from all over our council,"...
COTTAGE HILLS - Foodstock 2017 returns to the Cottage Hills VFW again this year from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 12, to help support the Oasis Shelter for Women and the Community Hope Center. Emmy Lou Cole, who heads Foodstock, said this is their fourth year having the event at the VFW after...
JERSEYVILLE - Heat didn't stop fans from filling the grandstand at the Jersey County Fair Sunday as the week wrapped up with a demolition derby. Fair board president, Phil Ringhausen, said it's a great way to end the festivities because everyone gets excited for the derby. "We've been...
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