Rosewood Heights News

Londa Weller's handmade, brocade jacket beautifully complemented the gold, fabric tablecloth where she ate Thanksgiving dinner Thursday with her husband, Jack, and sister, Lois Welch, at the United Presbyterian Church.

Every Sunday morning Corissa Tefft brings a basket filled with about 20 bottles of nail polishes to the female residents at Rosewood Heights Health Center.

A fire that started in a basement and burned through the first floor of a house on Wednesday in the 300 block of Wyoming Street is under investigation.

Roger and Lona Mouser celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary Nov. 7. Mouser and the former Lona Searles were united in marriage by the Rev.

Samantha Jo Ann Smith and Joshua Deneen Hobbs are making plans for their wedding, which will take place at a 1 p.m. ceremony Saturday, Nov.

Mother Goose was there. So were Larry, Moe and Curly. And, of course, the usual suspects turned up - devils, ghouls and witches.

Kathleen Diane Goode Hawkins, 54, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, at her home.

Dennis Kinnikin, left, of the Piasa Gateway Chapter of ABATE, A Brotherhood Aimed Towards Education, hands off stuffed animals to Justin Chapman, a paramedic with Alton Memorial's EMT station in Rosewood Heights.

A local 4-H group this week marks the roots that defined what it became 60 years later.

PHASE 12 GRANT is TO DOWNSIZE NURSING HOMES, EXPAND ACCESSIBILITY TO ASSISTED LIVING PROGRAMS, CREATE 'GREEN HOUSE ' RESIDENCES FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK ELDERS, AND ENSURE NURSING HOME BED AVAILABILITY FOR DIFFICULT TO PLACE HOSPITAL PATIENTS: Michael J. Sullivan, Loretto president and chief executive officer, today announced that the Loretto Health ...

" Loretto Health & Rehabilitation Center will be shutting down two of its Central New York nursing homes over the next two years as part of reorganization.

In the spirit of rejuvenation and rediscovery, First Baptist Church of Rosewood Heights will hold an old-fashioned tent revival for three consecutive nights, beginning at 6:30 p.m. today.

The Village Board, reacting to an increase in sewer treatment costs from the city of Alton, is raising the price it charges other jurisdictions that use Bethalto's system.

Law enforcement officials hit the streets of northern Madison County Thursday evening as part of an effort to saturate neighborhoods and keep the areas safe.

Dozens of police cars from numerous agencies led Wednesday's funeral procession up Illinois Route 111 for Wood River-born Alan Dean Biggerstaff, 56, who was the police chief of East Carondelet and died July 24 in Chicago.

Dozens of police cars from numerous agencies led Wednesday's funeral procession up Illinois Route 111 for Wood River-born Alan Dean Biggerstaff, 56, who was the police chief of East Carondelet and died July 24 in Chicago.

Robert J. Bahr, 67, passed away Wednesday, July 22, 2009, at Alton Memorial Hospital.

A large East Alton-based law firm plans to consolidate its seven area offices into one, by moving into the vacant, former Jefferson Smurfit building in Alton.

Dozens of police cars from Wood River and other agencies make their way down Ninth Street hill in Wood River as they lead Friday's funeral procession for retired Wood River police chief Ralph Skinner, who died a week ago.

Milani Turner of Rosewood Heights helps her son, Cade Turner-Miller, cast out his line while fishing Tuesday with Abby Branham of South Roxana, back left, Brittany Yon, back middle, and Branham's daughter, Lily Livingston, back right, at the Belk Park lake in Wood River.