A.J. Tillman led with 17 points, while Isayah Kloster came up with nine points and both Malik Allen and Kris Crosby had eight points each in leading Edwardsville to a 58-44 win over Jersey, winning the Jersey Mid-Winter Classic tournament title on a tiebreak Friday night.
The Edwardsville High boys swimming team made a triumphant return to the Chuck Fruit Aquatic Center by winning six events, with Cohen Osborn and Eddie Myers winning twice, as the Tigers won their fifth annual Swim For HOPE meet Saturday at the CFAC. The Tigers won the meet with 366 points.
Ameren Illinois crew members were busy Monday morning outside the old Lenhardt Tool and Die building at Sixth and Piasa in Alton. The Ameren Illinois workers were bringing down power lines right outside the building where demolition is planned in the near future.
Triad defeated Edwardsville's JV hockey team 4-0 at Edwardsville in a Mississippi Valley Conference match. Goalie Brody Patton drew praise from his coach Jason Walker for a standout performance in net.
ALTON - Eddie Sholar Jr., owner of Fast Eddy’s Bon Air, one of Alton’s landmark businesses, expressed excitement about the new Alton cannabis dispensary located at the former Winnelson Plumbing & Pipe Supply building located near his establishment.
Sholar, the previous owner of the old Winnelson building...
Progress on the building for Drunken Fish, Kimchi Guys, Nothing Bundt Cakes, and Eskimo Hut is making great progress, both Edwardsville Mayor Art Risavy and Economic and Community Development Director James Arnold said Friday.
ALTON - St. Mary’s Catholic eighth-grade girls had a basketball season that will likely never be forgotten, capturing 21 wins with only one loss.
The St. Mary's eighth-grade girls' season ended in the SIJHSAA regional championship with a 40-20 loss to All Saints Academy in Breese. St. Mary’s head...
Both Emerson Weller and Zay Hoover scored 12 points each as Edwardsville came from behind in the third and fourth quarter to come to within 43-40, but a big three-pointer by Sydney Bradley sparked a Westminster Christian run at the end as the Wildcats, of west St. Louis County, defeated the Tigers 56-47...
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