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Teens get priority on summer Saturdays
The Illinois Secretary of State’s office is dedicating DMV services exclusively for teen drivers every Saturday during the summer months at about a dozen select facilities including Bethalto. The Teen Summer DMV initiative will cater exclusively to helping teens get their driver’s licenses or permits quickly. The agency...
Triple gold: SHG's Jamarion Bardwell, Litchfield's Keenan Powell land in history books
CHARLESTON — Sacred Heart-Griffin's Jamarion Bardwell and Litchfield’s Keenan Powell each generated gold medals in the triple jump at the boys track and field state finals at O’Brien Field on Saturday. Both summoned their best attempts on the final day. Bardwell traveled a personal best 46 feet,...
One dead in Hartford crash
One man is dead and another injured in a Monday evening crash in Hartford. Just before 7pm, the Hartford Police Department was dispatched to the area of Route 3 at Rand Ave for a report of a single vehicle traffic crash. Once on scene, officers found a car that had left the roadway with two people inside.
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.
Gov. Pritzker says he's ‘disappointed’ Madison County will vote on secession referendum
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker criticized the Madison County Board’s decision to place a symbolic advisory referendum on the November ballot that will ask voters if the Metro East county should explore separating from the Chicago area. "The idea that someplace in Illinois wants to kick out another place in...
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