By Collin Kessler Mascoutah Herald The Mascoutah High School Indians kept their post season hopes alive last Saturday night , Nov. 9, taking down the Kankakee Kays 22-18 allowing them to advance to the third round of the IHSA playoffs. When Head Coach Josh Lee took over four years ago, that moment on the football…

By Collin Kessler Mascoutah Herald At every home football game for their Indians, a chant is regularly perceptible throughout the stadium when Mascoutah is on defense.  This chant is ‘Dark Side’, the nickname of the Indians defense, something that came from Coach Troy Medvick when he rejoined the program. When Defensive Coordinator Medvick came back…

By Randy Pierce tribune@heraldpubs.com FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS – With some of them returning to participate after having enjoyed it once or more previously while others experienced it for the first time, 33 local area older residents graduated from the 2019 Fairview Heights Police Department Senior Academy on Thursday, October 24. This was the first year that…

Hospital Leaders Honored by the Illinois Health and Hospital Association BREESE – The efforts of HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital Breese to advance patient care and safety earned a 2019 Illinois Health and Hospital Association (IHA) Quality Excellence Achievement Award in the Small and Rural category, recently presented at the IHA Leadership Summit in Lombard. The…