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 →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 →CARD appoints interim executive director
The Collinsville Area Recreation District Board of Commissioners appointed Susan Zaber as interim Executive Director in a special meeting Monday evening. Zaber came to CARD in Jan. 2011 after serving 15 years as a human resources and operations professional for places such as Washington University, Spectrum Healthcare Resources and Corporate Fitness Works. When Zaber joined […]
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 →CARD executive director resigns amid park district’s financial concerns
The executive director of the beleaguered Collinsville Area Recreation District resigned Thursday, effective immediately. In a resignation letter to David Tanzyus, president CARD’s Board of Commissioners, Terry Wilson, 55, said when he was hired he believed he could help the district to become “functionally and financially healthy” after nearly two decades of mismanagement. But, with […]
Read More →Pleasant Ridge Park closure announcement result of “slight misunderstanding”
The Collinsville Area Recreation District issued a press release today stating that Pleasant Ridge Park had been closed due to budget constraints, and retracted the statement less than one hour later. “There was a slight misunderstanding among staff that led to the announcement that Pleasant Ridge Park is closed. The park is open,” Elizabeth Davis, […]
Read More →High school artists sought for Congressional Art Competition
Congressman John Shimkus’ office is accepting entries for the 2014 Congressional Art Competition. High school students can submit original artwork in the mediums of paintings, drawings, collages, prints, photographs, computer-generated art and mixed media. Artwork must be two-dimensional, no larger than 28 inches by 28 inches by four inches, including the frame and cannot weigh […]
Read More →CARD finds way to avoid major cuts, at least until June
***Updated on March 9 with Pleasant Ridge Park upgrade figures provided after the original publication*** With a room full of Collinsville Area Recreation District employees on hand at a special meeting of the CARD Board of Commissioners, Director Terry Wilson cited a list of cuts he has overseen to save the district money. Eradicating a […]
Read More →National Weather Service admits bad forecast
A Facebook post from the National Weather Service’s St. Louis office Sunday night took responsibility for a forecast that called for much more sleet and snow than actually fell in the area. “Yup (sic)it was a bad forecast,” the message said. “Winter weather forecasting is by far the most difficult thing we do, and the […]
Read More →CHS announces Character Education honorees
Collinsville High School announced its Character Education students of the month for December and January. The character trait of the month for December was “Be Courteous: Show Consideration for Others.” Two students shared the award for Character Education Student of the Month for December. John Collins was nominated by Lisa Langenstein, registrar at Collinsville High […]
Read More →Collinsville High School announces students of the month for December and January
Collinsville High School has announced the winners of their Senior of the Month, Student of the Month and Athlete of the Month awards for December and January. SENIOR OF THE MONTH December – Moet McFall Moet was recently awarded $1,500 from the Zeta Charitable Foundation of St. Louis Inc. for her volunteer work with a variety […]
Read More →Sleet moving out, snow on the way
A thick layer of sleet has blanketed the Collinsville area, but the predicted snow has yet to blanket Kahok Stadium, that should change within the next 2-3 hours. In a departure from normal, the long-range forecast appears to be holding, with sleet moving through the area before the snow moves in after noon. Projections from […]
Read More →It’s in the mail; State Police to issue Concealed Carry Licenses
Less than 60 days after the first Concealed Carry License applications were accepted in the state, the Illinois State Police are ready to mail 5,000 licenses. Illinois, in July, became the last state in the union to allow concealed weapons to be carried legally. The application process was opened on Jan. 5 and more than […]
Read More →Finally, more snow and sleet in the Collinsville area forecast
Bereft of dangerous driving conditions for more than two weeks, significant sleet and snow have returned to the Collinsville area forecast. Caseyville and the southern parts of Collinsville saw a dusting of snow Tuesday night, but the rest of the area has not experienced winter precipitation since nearly half an inch of snow covered the […]
Read More →Collinsville High School math team sends 15 to State Competition
The Collinsville High School math team did not qualify for the State Competition, but 15 of the 23 members qualified either individually or in a smaller team. After qualifying as a team the past three years, the Kahok human calculators this year ran into the mathematical buzz saw that is Carbondale High School. The Terrier […]
Read More →Interstate 270 lane closures cancelled
The Illinois Department of Transportation announced announced that daytime westbound lane closures on Interstate 270 for Thursday Feb. 27 and Friday Feb. 28 have been cancelled. The pavement repair work was to take place between the Chain of Rocks Canal and the Mississippi River, near Granite City, but has been delayed due to freezing temperatures. Work […]
Read More →Collinsville Middle School students get a sexting lesson
Amy Gabriel asked a group of about 40 Collinsville Middle School students Friday morning if they knew there were legal consequences to sexting. Approximately 10 percent raised their hand to say they did know before Gabriel’s presentation. Now 100 percent know, and that is why Gabriel, assistant Madison County state’s attorney, was willing to spend […]
Read More →Collinsville High School Science Club qualifies for State Science Olympiad
By Rachel Heston-Davis, Metro Independent Contributor Early on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 15, fifteen students from Collinsville High School rose early, jumped in the car and headed off to an event they had practiced for all year. These students gave up their weekend sleep to compete with other schools for the chance to advance […]
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