January Edward Jones’ Unit 10 Teacher of the Month announced
Jason Watts, 5th grade teacher at Dorris Intermediate School is the Edward Jones Unit 10 Teacher of the Month for January. In addition to his classroom duties, Watts does a great job as a volunteer with the schools science, technology and engineering and mathematics program, DIS Principal Matt Noyes said. “For a 5th and 6th […]
Read More →Kahoks help Vergil Fletcher’s widow
Vergil Fletcher built Collinsville basketball and shaped the lives of hundreds of athletes in his 32 years at Collinsville High School. The respect Mr. Fletcher, who died in 2009 at age 93, gained in the community extended beyond naming the high school gym, and the street that runs in front of it, after him. He […]
Read More →Wilkinson’s 19 lead Kahoks past Indians
Anfirnee Wilkinson scored eight first quarter points to help the Kahoks to an early lead against Mascoutah Friday, and made four fourth quarter free throws to help seal a 53-46 win. Collinsville (9-12) led 14-9 after one quarter, but managed only three points over the first five minutes of the second quarter. Leading by one […]
Read More →Morgan’s late jumper lifts Lady Kahoks
Collinsville brought the ball up court with 48 seconds remaining in a tie game with Mascoutah Saturday night. The Lady Kahoks, who had chiseled away at a 7-point fourth quarter deficit, were content to make it the last possession of regulation. With 12 seconds left, Head Coach Lori Billy called a play for point guard […]
Read More →Cougars drop OVC contest at Eastern Illinois
Eastern Illinois University freshman Jake Verhagen knocked down 3-point baskets on back-to-back possessions late in the second half Saturday to vault the Panthers to a 76-70 win over Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in Ohio Valley Conference men’s basketball at Lantz Arena. The loss snapped a two-game winning streak for the Cougars, who had won four of their […]
Read More →Eastern uses late 13-0 to drop SIUE
Eastern Illinois University regained the lead with a late 13-0 run and went on to defeat Southern Illinois University Edwardsville women’s basketball 71-61 Saturday. The EIU duo of Katlyn Payne and Sabina Oroszova combined for 48 points against the Cougars, now 5-17 overall and 2-8 in the Ohio Valley Conference. Eastern Illinois improved to 9-12 overall […]
Read More →Caseyville teens, Collinsville juvenile, accused of 24 burglaries around Columbia
Three Caseyville teenagers and a Collinsville juvenile are accused of 21 car burglaries and three residential burglaries around Columbia, Ill. since late December. All have been charged in Monroe County. Tyler W. Ashcraft, 18, of the 200 block of Oliver Street, Caseyville, was charged with 21 counts of burglary from a motor vehicle and three […]
Read More →Extended scoring droughts doom Kahoks
The Collinsville Kahoks boys basketball team trailed by five points when the second half started Friday in O’Fallon, but found themselves in a 19-point hole only eight minutes of game time later. A Sean Davis layup nearly three minutes into the start of the third quarter was all the scoring the Kahoks would do in […]
Read More →Inappropriate conduct at CHS: “rumors and innuendo, but no concrete allegations”
Collinsville Unit 10 Superintendent Bob Green sent a letter to district parents Friday addressing allegations made in a media outlet about inappropriate conduct by district employees towards students. “The news station has refused to provide the source of its information and has refused to provide any specific information that would allow District 10, the Illinois […]
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