Metro East news briefs
August 28, 2019Alton becoming river cruise hub The City of Alton and American Cruise Lines have finalized a docking and promotions agreement designed to establish the Riverbend city at a key terminal…
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Metro East news briefs
August 21, 2019Local bike path projects awarded state of Illinois grants Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced $2.6 million in grants for 16 local projects that will help communities acquire, develop and improve…
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Law targets cleanup at four Metro East coal ash sites
August 14, 2019Gov. J.B. Pritzker, July 30, signed legislation designed to prevent coal ash pollution and facilitate clean up at coal ash-contaminated sites — including four Metro East sites. “Coal…
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Metro East news briefs
August 7, 2019Effort seeks new interest in Metro East brownfields Much of Metro East’s considerable inventory of abandoned commercial and industrial land could be redeveloped through better utilization…
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Alton man sentenced for streaming sex abuse
August 6, 2019An Alton man has been sentenced to more than 33 years in federal prison and a lifetime term of supervised release for live-streaming the sexual abuse of a child. Travis Varble, 42,…
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Illinois congressional reps support Cahokia National Park plan
August 5, 2019The Belleville-based Heartlands Conservancy is launching an ambitious drive to establish a new Cahokia Mounds and Mississippian Culture National Historic Park; encompassing not only…
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Report offers ecological approach to development in southwest Illinois
July 31, 2019Commercial and residential development is picking up across Metro East — so is the development of the public infrastructure to support it. But also growing is concern over environmental…
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Leavitt: Going back where you came from is just a pleasant stroll down Memory Lane
July 18, 2019Young again! I feel like I have been propelled back to the halcyon days of yesteryear, when I hear once more the ring of plain speaking throughout the land, as I did as a child. “Go…
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