ALTON - The Alton Amphitheater is gearing up for its annual Food Truck Festival. From 4–8 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, the community can stop by the amphitheater to feast on food from 20 area food trucks. Admission is free, and everyone is invited to enjoy an afternoon of food and fun. This year’s theme is centered around the 100th anniversary of Route 66, with a few extras meant to honor the Mother Road. While the Food Truck Festival is an annual favorite, Amphitheater
Lenny Kravitz is one of the artists set to perform at the 2026 Global Citizen Festival, happening Sept. 26 on the Great Lawn in New York’s Central Park.Other performers include…
EAST ALTON — Firefighters responded to the 200 block of East Main Street Thursday morning after a detached garage caught fire. The call came in shortly before 7 a.m. Smoke from the fire could be seen from several blocks away. When firefighters arrived, homeowners alerted them that several motorcycles and gasoline were inside the garage. Firefighters entered the garage and located the fire behind a man door. Crews quickly deployed a hose line and were able to bring the fire under control.
A sunset lasts only minutes, yet people will stop traffic, miss a train, or stand in silence just to watch one. That reaction is oddly powerful for something so ordinary. The sun sets every day. It asks nothing from us. It does not solve problems or change deadlines. And still, people chase it from rooftops, beaches, parking lots, airplane windows, and city streets. We take photos, write poems, plan dates around it, and call it magical even when we have seen thousands of them before. So why
On August 13, one of the most far-reaching events in global history took place in 1961, when East German authorities began building the Berlin Wall. Barbed wire and concrete quickly cut through streets, neighborhoods, and even families in Berlin, turning the city into the clearest symbol of the Cold War divide between East and West. At the time, the wall was meant to stop the large flow of people leaving East Germany for the West. Its impact was immediate and deeply personal, but it also mattered
The winner of the St. Jude Dream Home was drawn Thursday morning. FOX 2’s Margie Ellisor was broadcasting live from Cardow Drive in O'Fallon, Missouri, while many eagerly await the drawings.
One obvious byproduct of letting what’s left of U.S. journalism consolidate in the hands of a bunch of giant corporations is the end result winds up being a feckless mess. Generally corporations don’t want to upset advertisers, ownership (usually Conservative, white, and male), event sponsors, or potential advertising targets, so their journalism winds up being […]
The organization that led the 2024 campaign to raise Missouri’s minimum wage and require paid sick leave is launching a $1 million grassroots campaign to defeat Republican lawmakers who helped repeal the paid leave requirement. Missouri Jobs with Justice Action has joined Progress Missouri, the Missouri Voter Project — State PAC, Missouri Workers Power, Abortion […]
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