News across Scott County
Barrow Baptist Church news
Hello from Barrow Baptist Church and Pastor Mancel Day. Our service times are 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, followed by 10:30 a.m. morning worship. Everyone is invited to either or both services and we are handicap accessible. On Sunday, Sept. 13, we had 17 attending Sunday school and…
Lecture on Frederick Oakes Sylvester in Elsah
Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. at Farley Music Hall, 34 Mill Street, Elsah, a lecture will be presented on Frederick Oakes Sylvester, by Dr. Julie Dunn-Morton, Curator Emerita of Art for the Mercantile Library of St. Louis on the UMSL campus. Dunn-Morton served on the Mercantile…
Griggsville News
It’s time!! The Griggsville Apple Festival will begin this Friday at 5pm and run all day Saturday. Pick up the schedule book and plan to make some fun family memories this weekend! The GHS Class of 1965 will meet and eat together at the Apple Festival this Saturday (9/19) at 6pm…
Kampsville News
I’m sure everyone is exhausted after a busy week at the fair. We have new royalty in our county. Congratulations Miss Calhoun McKenzie Baalman, Jr. Miss Harlow Hayn and Little Miss Piper Hayes. I’m sure these lovely ladies will do a great job representing us this year and I look…
Batchtown News
The 2016 Fall Festival was held Sept 10-13 at the Calhoun Fair Grounds. There was a nice crowd. The Carnival was enjoyed by all with rides, and fun activities for the youth, and young at heart. Food stands, and vendors with items for sale made one’s mouth water. The displays of…
Point News
No Point News last week due to the Labor Day holiday and needing to get my news items in early, and I had no items to write at that time. Since then, we celebrated Labor Day weekend and later in the week the 25-year remembrance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks when nearly 3,000…
Pickings from Pike’s Past
50 YEARS AGO: BALLOT INCLUDES COMMUNIST, SOCIALIST WORKERS AND SOCIALIST LABOR PARTIES 150 Years Ago Sept. 14, 1876 The weather hot, cold, raw, warm, ugly, rainy, and mean generally. It warmed up to about 90 degrees in Chambersburg last week, and then poured a shower of rain upon…
Looking Back… News items from the past pages of the Calhoun News-Herald
100 years ago September 16, 1926 After a steady rise for the past two weeks, the Illinois River at Hardin has taken a downward course and is falling quite rapidly. It is said that the water in the Illinois River, during this season of the year, has never reached such a high stage…
City of Alton says attorney has not received notice of strike from Teamsters 525
The City of Alton said in a press release Friday afternoon at the city attorney has not received any notice to strike from the Teamsters 525 union. According to the release, the city made its most recent offer to the Teamsters in mid August, providing for a guaranteed 3% minimum…
Calhoun County Fair Contestants
CARROLLTON ADDRESSES e-bike issue
By Carmen Ensinger Juveniles riding e-bikes around town has become a concern in just about every community, mainly because of the speed they are able to obtain and the fact that they are largely unregulated. Kids barely able to pedal a bike are now tooling around town on an…
