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JERSEYVILLE - The Jersey County Historical Society will host their 34th annual Apple Festival. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, community members can come out to 601 N. State Street in Jerseyville to tour historical buildings and enjoy vendors, artisans, food, live music and more fun. Beth McGlasson from the Jersey County Historical Society expressed her excitement to welcome the Riverbend community. “We have a fabulous crowd. It really is sort of the fall kickoff event for Jerseyville,” she said. “It is something that so many people look forward to every year.” McGlasson shared that attendees can visit with over 30 vendors. There will be several artisans demonstrating their crafts, from quilting to making lye soap. From 9:30–11:30 a.m., Jersey Community High School’s choir will perform, followed by The Gibson Girls from 12–1 p.m. The afternoon will conclude with The Hetzel Family from 1–3 p.m. and Back in

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From EL PAÍS: The summer has been a cold one for the labor market in the United States. Not only were just 22,000 new net jobs added in August, but for the first time since December 2020, jobs were lost in June. The onset of the winter of employment had been a reality for some […]

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Victims say the system ignored them for years and now a prosecutor alleges that state protection workers appear to have ignored at least one direct warning.

The strike is now hitting its 7th week, and it's starting to hurt businesses outside of Boeing, including a family-owned restaurant.

EDWARDSVILLE — Madison County Clerk Linda Andreas is continuing efforts to improve elections and streamline the voting and registration processes for county residents. “The staff in this office always strives to better serve constituents, taxpayers and voters,” Andreas said. “Elections are a chief function of the County Clerk’s Office, and we do everything in our power to ensure voters have a good experience when they exercise their right to cast a ballot.” Andreas said the Clerk’s Office has been working on election-system upgrades that might not be obvious to voters when they cast their ballots. But these upgrades are expected to streamline the voter-registration and voting processes, and reduce wait times at the polls for early voting. Early voting is an option which continues to grow in popularity. First, a new VRXG voter-registration software system is being implemented. It replaces an aging software system that was installed

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A towering new presence has arrived at one of St. Louis’ busiest intersections. Over the weekend, a construction crane rose above the corner of Kingshighway and Lindell, marking a major milestone for the Albion West End, a $145 million residential high-rise now underway. The extremely tight site made for a very “interesting” piece of choreography […]

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee the nation’s election infrastructure. Honey is a protege of Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who […]

MoDOT says first responders are at the crash site.

From Construction Dive: Pre-apprenticeship initiatives were critical pathways into skilled trade careers across Illinois in recent years, helping to address ongoing labor shortages in the construction industry. That’s according to a recently released study by the Illinois Economic Policy Institute. The report focused on Illinois’ two major pre-apprenticeship initiatives — the Highway Construction Careers Training Program and […]

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EDWARDSVILLE – Flooded neighborhoods and sewage backed up in homes were a few project updates that U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13), along with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), spoke about during a Community Day on Friday, Sept. 12 at the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville East St. Louis Center. Duckworth and Budzinski addressed a crowd of approximately 100 people in the Multipurpose Room in Building D on the Wyvetter H. Younge Higher Education Campus. Metro East residents learned more about the latest updates on flood mitigation and water infrastructure improvements throughout Cahokia Heights, East St. Louis and the region. The legislators also shared their efforts at the federal level to bring funding and oversight to water infrastructure projects throughout the region, received status updates on ongoing improvement projects from USACE and local officials and heard again first-hand accounts of the difficulties facing

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EDWARDSVILLE - Third Judicial Circuit Associate Judge John Hackett was recently appointed to the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Child Welfare and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee as well as the NCJFCJ International Committee. Judge Hackett is the state of Illinois’ only representative on both committees. The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges is the oldest judicial membership organization in the country and provides all judges, courts, and related agencies involved with juvenile, family, and domestic violence cases with the latest knowledge and skills to improve the lives of the families and children. While assigned to the Child Welfare and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee, Judge Hackett will provide guidance to the NCJFCJ Board, membership and staff on initiatives and projects related to child abuse and neglect, in additional to juvenile justice matters. On the International Committee, Judge Hackett is responsible for developing and implementing

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From CityScene STL: While naysayers continue to talk down the City of St. Louis and any progress being made, good work continues. When you pass through the City, especially North St. Louis, you can see the result of nearly 600,000 people leaving the City for other locations over the course of the last 75 years. […]

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