Preview: Kahoks football at Belleville East
Collinsville High School enters their first Southwestern Conference game of the year fresh off a sloppy victory. The victory matched the Kahoks (1-1) total for the entire 2012 season and was their first under new head coach John Blaylock. The team celebrated the victory, but soon discovered that Blaylock was not satisfied with merely winning. […]
Read More →More upgrades coming to uptown Collinsville
Two projects that will enhance infrastructure in uptown Collinsville were approved unanimously by the City Council Monday. All 124 decorative light fixtures in the streetscape area will be retrofitted for LED light bulbs and the existing lights replaced. Some of the fixtures are 13 years old. The existing HID lights are replaced about every two […]
Read More →Collinsville fire and police chiefs awarded updated contracts
The Collinsville City Council voted unanimously Monday to extend by one year the employment contracts of the fire and police chiefs and to grant each an additional week of vacation each year. The additional week of vacation was awarded to make the contracts market competitive, City Manager Scott Williams said. Each chief will receive four […]
Read More →Emergency sirens repaired after second failure
Doc Brown’s flux capacitor in Back to the Future was a brilliantly functioning piece of equipment. Unfortunately for Collinsville, the capacitors in two emergency sirens could not make the same claim. Collinsville residents were left confused for the second time in less than a month when an emergency siren blared Saturday, a day filled with […]
Read More →First responders brave the heat at Monks Mound to honor 9/11 victims
Area police and firefighters climbed Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds Wednesday to commemorate the 12th anniversary of Sept. 11 and honor their colleagues who died during the attacks. The first responders were joined by about 130 volunteers, including Elaine Marino, who had a very personal reason for climbing the stairs. “I had a couple of […]
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