Members of the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Constructor’s Club — eager to put their construction training to meaningful use — spent multiple recent weekends volunteering on area projects. In addition to continued support with Habitat for Humanity projects, four members of the club participated in the East Side Heart and Home Family Center’s Blitz Build…

DALLAS — The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers System Council T-3 has notified AT&T that IBEW-represented wireline employees have voted to ratify a five-year contract with AT&T subsidiaries. The contract covers nearly 5,000 wireline employees primarily in Illinois and Northwest Indiana. The IBEW-represented employees covered by the agreement are members of IBEW Local 21 in…

A real estate investment firm has acquired a senior housing portfolio that includes independent and assisted living units in four Metro East communities. American Healthcare Investors and Griffin Capital Co., LLC, the co-sponsors of Griffin-American Healthcare REIT IV, Inc., announced this week that the real estate investment trust has acquired the 229-unit, SW Illinois Senior…

BETHALTO — The Third Annual Mustang for Mustangs is being held today, Saturday, at St. Louis Regional Airport to benefit the Legendary Mustang Sanctuary in Alhambra and its rescue and adoption of America’s wild Mustang horses and burros. The event begins with a flea market at 9 a.m. and continues all day with an official…

GRAFTON — Gates will open Saturday for the 28th summer season at Raging Rivers WaterPark. The 28-acre park along the Great River Road in Grafton opens at 10:30 a.m. The park features six distinctly different slides (Cascade Body Flumes, Runaway Rafts, Shark Slide Flume and Swirlpools), two areas specifically dedicated to little ones (Itty Bitty…

O’FALLON, Ill. — HSHS Medical Group has welcomed Mireille El Hayek, M.D., to its family of providers. Specializing in endocrinology, El Hayek will see patients at Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate at HSHS Medical Group in O’Fallon. El Hayek earned her medical degree at St. Joseph University in Philadelphia, and completed internal medicine residencies at Hotel…

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Chancellor Randy Pembrook will deliver the commencement address to 51 students receiving their doctor of dental medicine degrees at the SIU School of Dental Medicine commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 3, in the SIUE Morris University Center Meridian Ballroom. Pembrook became the ninth chancellor in SIUE’s history on August…

SPRINGFIELD – Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti applauded the General Assembly for passing a bill that requires the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to publish cost estimates unfunded mandates will have on local governments. SB 2066 passed the House 99-12-2 and the Senate 51-0-0 and will be sent to the governor. As part of the…