Wood River News

Comments 0 Recommend 0 November 25, 2009 8:04 PM By DAN BRANNAN The Telegraph The holiday season begins Thursday with Thanksgiving, and officials at area charities say their needs are greater than usual this year.

One of Madison County's top appointed officials is on administrative leave with pay after he was charged with driving under the influence.

The Opening Celebration ceremonies for Madison County Transit's new Alton Station will start at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Downtown Alton.

Kelly L. Radick, 44, of the 1000 block of Meadow Drive, Cottage Hills, was charged Tuesday with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.

Engineers have found an "urgent" problem with a Mississippi River levee that could threaten serious flooding in parts of Alton, East Alton and Wood River, officials of those communities were told Wednesday.

A national morning news program will feature Alton paramedics as it touts the importance of contacting a doctor about light-headedness or passing out - which happened as one of the men drove an ambulance.

With each passing year, there are fewer surviving veterans of World War II who remember any of their fallen soldiers-in-arms by name.

Antique collectors are in for a treat at a new store in Wood River. Carol Bartlett opened Old Glory at 7 W. Ferguson Ave.

Gregory F. Cremeens, 44, of Granite City, was charged Tuesday with aggravated driving under the influence.

Officials are worried that a federal decision to "decertify" levees in Southwestern Illinois could cost property owners millions in flood insurance premiums and deter growth in communities.

Firefighters battled a stubborn blaze in the basement of a three-story house Friday night, but the homeowner escaped injury.

Reanda K. Preston, 17, of the 100 block of Rue Des Chateaux, Bethalto, and Jeffrey J. Davison, 18, of the 400 block of McCoy Street, Bethalto, were charged Wednesday with residential burglary.

The Wood River Women's Club is setting its sights on making a difference in children's lives and is asking the public to help.

A cemetery owner has been given until Wednesday to present a plan to clean up his property, although improvements already have begun.

A Bethalto woman and federal prosecutors reached an agreement Wednesday calling for her to serve 10 years in prison for providing drugs to a man who died of an overdose more than year after he had given the FBI information about former Madison County lawyer L. Thomas Lakin.

The YWCA of Alton announced Friday that Susan Lyndaker Lindsey will be the organization's new executive director.

In what would be a major project along Homer Adams Parkway, a hotel chain owner wants to demolish part of a closed motel, renovate what remains and build an addition.

The Madison County Health Department has received a limited supply of the H1N1 nasal spray vaccine and will hold a free walk-in clinic today for a specific population of people.

An emergency boil order notice has been issued for all water customers who live on the east side of Lakin Boulevard in Wood River.

The swine flu vaccine is available this morning in Madison County Illinois. There is a limited supply of the H-1-N-1 vaccine.