Hartford News

He served in the U.S. Navy during WWII and retired from Laclede Steel in Alton after more than 40 years of service.

The Purple Swan Bus Line opened in August 1926 to provide transportation between Alton and the area industries in East Alton, Wood River and Hartford.

Bonnie Burkman of Arnold, Mo., can't keep her eyes off Cappuccino, a barn owl perched on TreeHouse Wildlife Center senior wildlife technician Pam Lippert's hand Saturday at the Lewis and Clark Confluence Tower in Hartford.

If Illini Terminal Railroad locomotives look familiar, it is because a Wood River railroad man modeled them after the green and yellow engines made famous by the Illinois Terminal.

Can someone tell me how they can make a CVS pharmacy in Wood River in less than six months, and Hartford, to do a splash park, and it takes - they're going on their second year right now without making any progress.

David Owens, 10, of Hartford watches the chips fly Saturday morning at the Lewis and Clark Confluence Tower in Hartford as Eric Snider, owner of Chip Off the Block Ice Carving of Staunton, uses a chain saw to shape a block of ice into an eagle.