updated – Caseyville Police seek man wanted for beating woman
***Updated at 4 p.m. Monday, March 24 to indicate that Cline may be hiding in State Park*** Caseyville Police are asking for help locating a man charged with domestic battery and resisting a peace officer. Mark A. Cline, 25, of the 400 block of South 7th Street, Caseyville is accused of battering a woman at […]
Read More →Ameren 10 percent down payment offer for past due accounts ends March 31
Ameren Illinois customers with past due balances are have a limited-time opportunity to establish a repayment plan by making a 10 percent down payment rather than 25 percent. Eligible customers have until March 31 to pay 10 percent of their outstanding balance and the remainder in monthly installments. Beginning April 1, customers with outstanding balances […]
Read More →SIUE introduces free math homework hotline for middle school students
***Submitted Content*** Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, in collaboration with the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers Foundation (ISPEF), launched the “SIUE Homework Hotline” in mid-February. The hotline is available for students in grades 6-8. They can call and receive free help with their math homework Sunday through Thursday from 7-10 p.m. Tutors can be reached at […]
Read More →Police seek thieves who made off with electronics from Collinsville Wal-Mart
Two people walked into the Wal-Mart in Collinsville Crossing Wednesday night, gathered $1,500 of electronics, walked out, loaded the goods in a small, maroon SUV and fled the scene. Collinsville Police are searching for two suspects in the case. The first, an African-American male, was wearing a blue jean jacket and baseball hat at the […]
Read More →Alvarez to remain Caseyville Police Chief
Three hours and twenty minutes after the Caseyville Village Board meeting began Wednesday night, about 100 residents filed back into the Village Hall Meeting Chambers to learn the fate of their police chief. The crowd of about two hundred that attended the meeting had thinned after a two-hour closed session during which the six Village […]
Read More →Shimkus offers thoughts on Crimea and economics to CHS students
Congressman John Shimkus, of Collinsville, recently returned to his old high school and, for a short time, his old profession. Shimkus, a 1976 Collinsville High School graduate, spoke to Mark Schusky’s Economics class Monday. The former Metro East Lutheran High School teacher taught the students some basic economic principals, and briefly reminisced about walking the […]
Read More →State’s Attorney rebukes Caseyville officials, in writing
In a letter dated March 18, and viewed by The Metro Independent, St. Clair County State’s Attorney Brendan Kelly issued notification to all elected and appointed officials of Caseyville that all communications between his office and Village officials would be in writing, if at all, until governance is restored. A leaked, confidential, memo from Caseyville […]
Read More →Caseyville residents receive leaked letters attacking police chief before vote on his fate
An anonymous source has been busy mailing leaked information to every resident in Caseyville. A letter from the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council, distributed to Mayor Len Black and the Board of Trustees, found its way into every Caseyville mailbox Friday. The letter was accompanied by a cover letter attacking Police Chief Jose […]
Read More →Ready, set, fire: A timeline of hiring and firing the current Caseyville police chief
Feb. 11 – At a Board of Police Commissioners’ meeting, Alvarez asks that Steve Romanik be fired. Because Village Attorney John Gilbert is not present, the Police Board decides to delay action for a special meeting, to be called for one week later. Feb. 12 – Alvarez is fired. Black said Alvarez lacked administrative experience. […]
Read More →Collinsville Unit 10 finances among best in the area
Despite declining state revenue, the Collinsville School District improved its economic health in fiscal year 2013, according to the Illinois State Board of Education. Unit 10 received a Financial Profile score of 3.55 from ISBE for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013. The score moved the district into the “Financial Recognition” category, the highest […]
Read More →Program helps reduce CHS physical education failures by 70 percent
By Alene Hill – Metro Independent Contributor It used to be that Collinsville High School students who forgot their Physical Education uniform had one option, sit out class and receive a failing grade that day. But a uniform rental program has given students another option, with great success. For 50 cents each, students who forgot […]
Read More →updated – Ice and snow the day before St. Patty’s Day, where’s the luck of the Irish?
***Updated at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, March 16*** The predicated rain and snow is currently south and west of the Collinsville area, but is threatening to bypass the area. The National Weather Service is currently predicting a 70 percent chance of snow and sleet Sunday, with total accumulation of about one inch. The projection is for […]
Read More →Collinsville High School’s principal honored as a leader in education
The outgoing message on Collinsville High School Principal Eric Flohr’s work voicemail begins, “greetings fellow believer.” It is a message that assumes the caller shares Flohr’s unrelenting belief in the potential of CHS students, faculty and staff. Spend a few minutes with the man recently named one of the 2013-2014 Peabody Energy Leaders in Education […]
Read More →Caseyville Police to increase patrols for St. Patrick’s Day Weekend
The Caseyville Police Department will be conducting increased patrols this weekend in an attempt to crack down on impaired drivers as well as drivers and passengers violating seatbelt laws. Funding for the extra patrols is provided by the Sustained Traffic Enforcement Program through the Illinois Department of Transportation. The Caseyville Police Department reminds everybody to drink responsibly […]
Read More →Collinsville High School recognizes three as February Character Students
Two students who ensured lost money found its owner, and one who is a true friend to a group of special needs students have been named the Collinsville High School Character Education Students of the Month for February. Selected as the students at CHS who best embodied the Unit 10 character education trait of the […]
Read More →New business brings commercial style service to single-family homes
Anyone who has needed multiple types of maintenance work performed on their house knows that it can be cumbersome to find multiple, trustworthy companies to handle various projects. A new area company has an answer for that problem. Payton Blaylock recently started Blaylock Maintenance Services to remove the hassle of “fighting through the yellow pages […]
Read More →Unit 10 school boundary plan settled
The Collinsville School Board reached a resolution Tuesday on how to minimize the number of students bused to another school because there is no room in their home elementary school. For more than a year, the administration investigated options to reduce the 237 students involuntarily transferred each day. Options included changing school boundaries, adjusting start […]
Read More →Clocks move forward tonight (in case you haven’t heard)
Here is yet another reminder, daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. Central time Sunday. Move your clocks forward lest you be shamed by showing up an hour late tomorrow. Horseradish country will have an extra hour of sunlight until the first Sunday of November. The late sunlight may make it confusing for toddlers whose […]
Read More →He’s baaack! Caseyville police chief temporarily reinstated
The second attempt by Caseyville Mayor Len Black to fire the village’s chief of police has been put on hold by court and Village Board order. Jose Alvarez was fired by Black on Friday, 16 days after firing him the first time. Alvarez obtained a temporary restraining order on March 4 barring Caseyville from terminating […]
Read More →Union threatens Caseyville mayor with grievance over dispute with office worker
Caseyville Mayor Len Black is under fire from the Teamsters Local 50, and now possibly the Village Board, for not issuing a written apology to a Village Hall office worker. A union representative met with Black earlier this year over a complaint filed by the worker who claimed Black had called her a “bitch” and […]
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