Grafton News

MONDAY, Feb. 8 Looking and Feeling Good at Menopause: 7 p.m. Alton Memorial Hospital cafeteria.

The nighttime music scene lacks a majority of female rockers, but lately, one up-and-comer helps fill the void.

While eagle counts may not have yet reached the same heights as previous years, the best could still be yet to come as the migration continues well into February and March.

Robert J. "Bobby" "Frogg" Kallal Jr., 64, passed away at 7:56 a.m. Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, at Des Peres Hospital in St.

The Kampsville Ferry reopened at 8:01 a.m. Friday, because ice on the Illinois River had broken up a bit, state officials said.

Derrill and Karla Machens, who started the Grafton Ferry Boat Co. along with two other business partners, recently became its sole owners and plan to bolster its services.

The parents of Jessica Tonsor and Jason Ray are announcing their engagement and approaching marriage in February.

Family members of a Grafton man who died last week say murder charges should be filed against a Greenfield man awaiting trial for allegedly battering the victim last August.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources offers a day trip that starts at 8:30 a.m. Monday at the Pere Marquette State Park Visitor Center in Grafton.

An Alton credit union and a bank notified six customers Monday that someone rang up 32 debits on their accounts totaling thousands of dollars at Florida businesses in recent days.

Pere Marquette State Park will host a Bald Eagle Festival this Sunday to celebrate this majestic bird that winters along the region's great rivers.

A bicyclist, who braved the single-digit temperatures this week, takes in winter on the rivers from the still-flooded and frozen-over bike trail in Grafton.

The frigid temperatures are starting to have an impact on traffic along the rivers.

A large and potent storm system is expected to strike The Telegraph area - and most of the middle Mississippi Valley - starting today and lasting into Thursday.

Jo Ellen Hileman and Nicholas Hutchens were united in marriage Friday evening, July 17, 2009, in an outdoor ceremony at Pere Marquette Park in Grafton.

Cody Hawkins, a 1997 graduate of Jersey Community High School, will assume the chief executive officer role for the city of Mascoutah on Jan.

Date Posted: December 29th, 2009 Written by jillboomer Category: Announcements , News Pere Marquette State Park in Grafton has begun its annual Pere Marquette Bald Eagle Days which will run through March 7 at the Park on Illinois Route 100.

Local painter Tommy Overton recently completed this mural in the Ruebel Hotel in Grafton, complete with the decor that makes it appear as though it is framed.

Developer Ben Allen, who has completed 90 percent of Windrivers Luxury Condominiums' phase 1, continues full steam ahead with the upscale community overlooking the scenic Mississippi River.

Voters in Elsah will be asked during the Feb. 2 primary if the village should impose a retailers' occupation tax and a service occupation tax at a rate not to exceed 1 percent for each tax.