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Steve Hackett

3 years 6 months ago

Steve Hackett is renowned as an immensely talented and innovative rock musician. He was lead guitarist with GENESIS as part of, that produced acclaimed albums

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Cavetown

3 years 6 months ago

Cavetown with Tessa Violet, Addison Grace   Since the age of 14, Cavetown has created self-produced songs both intensely diaristic and touched with offbeat imagination.

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Metro-East Lutheran High School Music Department Brings Home Another First Place, Hosts Spring Concert  

3 years 6 months ago
EDWARDSVILLE – The Metro-East Lutheran High School music department will go for the gold on Sunday, May 1, with a spring concert that is a tribute to the world of sports. The concert, which will begin at 4 p.m., will feature MELHS’s band, choir, strings ensemble guitar ensemble and choirchime ensemble.The program will focus on a sports theme, with musical selections ranging from “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” and the theme from “Rocky” to John Williams’ “Olympic Fanfare” and the theme music from the NFL on FOX. “Some of this music is really challenging and some of it is more tongue-in-cheek, but the whole program should really be just a lot of fun,” said Karen Shimkus, music director at MELHS. The concert, which will last about an hour, will be held in Henschen Hall at the school’s campus at 6305 Center Grove Road in Edwardsville. The event is open to the public. The MELHS music department recently celebrated

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Haine Announces Prison Sentence in More Than $500,000 Small Business Theft

3 years 6 months ago
EDWARDSVILLE - Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine announced Tuesday afternoon Jerrica Christine Rudebeck, age 31, now residing in Belleville, was sentenced in the Circuit Court of Madison County to a term of four years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for her role in stealing over a half a million dollars from a small family business in Granite City. Rudebeck pleaded guilty to the offenses on December 6, 2021. The victims of this crime were Jeff and Todd Overby, owners of Overby InkJet Solutions. Over a period of six years, after earning the trust and respect of the Overbys with whom the defendant worked in very close proximity, she started stealing from their business, eventually stealing over $500,000. This created a deep financial hole for the Overbys by plunging them, unknowingly, into crippling debt. Through hard work and incredible resilience by the entire family, their business has thankfully survived. “Small businesses are the bedrock of our community,”

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