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Pritzker rebukes counties’ calls for secession: ‘We are one Illinois’
PONTOON BEACH, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said he wanted “to remind everyone…that we are one Illinois” while celebrating the opening of a new government facility in a county that will ask voters this November if it should secede and form part of a new state. Madison County voters will be asked if […]
Alton Main Street announces summer music lineup
Alton Main Street proudly announces the incredible lineup of regional musicians that have been booked to perform at the organization’s upcoming events. Get ready for the stellar sounds of live music floating through the air in historic Downtown Alton!. Eight consecutive weeks of live bands have been scheduled for...
Parades and services mark Memorial Day
Memorial Day is the day Americans remember the servicemen and women who did not return home from their time in the military. There are remembrances of various types scheduled for many towns in the Riverbend today. There is a parade and ceremony in Jerseyville beginning at 9am at the tire...
Wood River Memorial Day ceremony returns
The annual Memorial Day ceremony at Central Park in Wood River is planned for 4pm Monday. It will start next to the memorial in the park near the Roundhouse and move indoors shortly after. Ceremony Chairperson Mary Roberts tells The Big Z the ceremony will feature a number of patriotic...
Brown Street repave will take two weeks
The third large-scale road project of the year is scheduled to begin today (Tues) in Alton. Weather-permitting, street crews will embark upon the project to mill and resurface Brown Street from Pearl to just past Rock Spring Drive. It’s a project that is expected to wrap up by next Friday, June 7.
Godfrey to hire architect for rec center / gym
An architect has been hired by the Godfrey Village Board to move ahead with the creation of plans for a new facility for Park and Rec purposes. Whether you call it a gymnasium, or a rec center depends on who you ask, but there is agreement the village needs more space for its various programs.
Public invited to Bethalto Memorial Day service
The Bethalto Memorial Day Parade will not happen again this year but there will still be a service. Tim Kallal owns Rose Lawn Memory Gardens and says there will be the traditional ceremony there on Memorial Day, May 27, but it will start an hour earlier than it had traditionally been scheduled for, now at 10am.
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