Highland News Leader
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It’s hard to imagine a stunning, supermodel-type blonde as modest. But if Raechel Holtgrave was a judge in the 13th Annual Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant she said she would have picked LeAngela Davis, who represented Columbus, Ohio in the pageant, as the winner.
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A 17-year-old Alhambra boy was killed in a single-vehicle accident Thursday as he was returning home from church.
Highland American Legion Post 439 senior baseball coach Jason Wiegand told his team they needed to win their last four games in District 22 North Division play after losing to Edwardsville June 28 and falling to 3-3 in the league.
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“Highland Madison County Fair Association was organized in 1898, and they held fairs at Lindendale Park for almost 20 years. (Reread my column of May 6 for more details.) With the advent of Prohibition in 1918, the county fair was discontinued, as it was no longer profitable. Then, when Prohibition was repealed in 1933, in 1936 a new Madison County Fair Association was started and the fair was held at Lindendale Park in the fall of 1936. One of the big attractions was a horse show, on the ball park area, where the wooden grandstands were available. The horse show became a money maker for the fair.
Retired Highland High School principal turned author, Andrew Carmitchel, has penned his fifth book — a murder-mystery novel set in Highland.
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Gertrude I. Messmer, 93, of Glen Carbon died Tuesday, July 7, 2009.
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Eugene C. “Geno” Liening, 77, of Highland died Tuesday, July 7, 2009, at Highland Health Care Center.
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Doris (Weidner) Houser, 82, of Upland, Calf., formerly of Highland, died on June 24, 2009, at Kaiser Hospital in Fontana, Calf., following a long struggle against Parkinson’s disease.
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Shanna Raye Anderson, 26, of Highland died Sunday, July 5, 2009, in Highland.
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Harry F. Storbeck, 84, of Highland, IL., died Monday, July 6, 2009, at Saint Joseph Hospital in Highland, IL.
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Rose N. Kolnsberg, 61, of Highland died July 1, 2009, at Anderson Hospital in Maryville.
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Emily Petroski, 89, of Highland, died Thursday, July 2, 2009, at Highland Health Care Center in Highland.
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Josephine Ann “Josie” Schleper, 88, of Highland died Thursday, July 2, 2009, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Belleville.
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Norma J. Schwarz, 79, of Pinckneyville died on Thursday, July 2, 2009, at Hitz Memorial Home in Alhambra.
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Dr. Ronald August Wiedner, O.D., 75, of Highland died Friday, July 3, 2009, at St. Louis University Hospital in Saint Louis, Mo.
