Alton Police Chief Jarrett Ford listens to a bar owner talk about being open late at night downtown during the Alton City Council's Committee of the Whole meeting on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. Erik Hall ...

Members of Alton Boy Scout Troop 1 salute at the annual Veterans Day ceremony at the Alton VFW Post 1308. A silhouette cut out of a soldier, kneeling with his rifle by a grave marker, was set up to ...

Marian Linn Huggins, 92, passed away on November 10, 2025, at Mill Creek Nursing Home in Galion. Marian was born on April 10, 1933, to the late Pearson and Dorothy (Spiegel) Linn in Bucyrus. After ...

ALTON — The new $10 million Alton Sunnybrook Housing Development at 767 Washington Ave. in Alton held a ribbon-cutting on Wednesday to mark the grand opening of the development's new affordable ...

David J. Sigler, age 84 of rural Sycamore, Ohio died at 2:36 P.M., Thursday, November 6, 2025 at home. He was born on March 6, 1941 in McCutchenville, Ohio to Forrest and Muriel (Jordan) Sigler. He ...

Alton will do away with all of its late-night liquor licenses in the near future. The city council voted 5-2 on Wednesday to eliminate bars’ ability to sell alcoholic beverages until 2 a.m. on ...

Illinois' Exotic Weed Act has been amended to include nine new invasive plant species, including the Callery pear tree. The ...

Sandra Jenkins Trudeau, 57, formerly of Nashua, NH and Tyngsboro, MA, passed away peacefully on November 3, 2025, surrounded by her family, after a long and courageous battle with Huntington’s Disease ...

Mark Thompson of Amherst, NH, died peacefully in his sleep after a long period of declining health. He had worked in industrial sales for most of his career until he was forced to retire due to health ...

Today is Thursday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2025. There are 76 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 16, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that ...

A Celebration of Life with military honors for Col. Terry Marcus Carlton (U.S. Army, Ret.), 87 of Groveton will be held Friday, November 7, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. at First Methodist Church of Diboll with ...