Troy
Karen Speer elected to membership into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
BATON ROUGE, LA — Karen Speer of Troy, Illinois, was recently elected to membership into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society, at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Speer is among approximately 20,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi…
Read MorePlenty of infrastructure work ahead in Troy as winter turns to spring
By Charles Bolinger Editor • With winter’s retreat, spring will keep Troy City Engineer Tom Cissell and others in the city’s public works department busy with the following projects: Industrial At 1501-1515 Formosa Road, work continues on rezoning the area to industrial and preparing it for a directional boring company’s use. The owner sold the…
Read MoreMarket & Main’s owners aim for May opening in Troy
By Charles Bolinger Editor • If you’ve driven past or tried to find daytime parking near the former American Legion headquarters lately, you have noticed the beehive of activity. Laborers were busy again on March 18 when a reporter visited with Evan and Gina Buchholz, to get an update on Troy’s newest restaurant. Called Market…
Read MoreUSPS to host passport fairs in Troy, Edwardsville in April
by Randy Pierce • Tri-Township Public Library at 209 South Main Street in Troy will be the site of a “passport fair” hosted by the United States Postal Service on Friday, April 3, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Anyone needing a passport and planning to attend this event should prepare for it by bringing…
Read MoreCollinsville park project gets $10K more; Zenk Road in Troy gets grant funding
by Randy Pierce • Identified as serving an area meeting federal guidelines for low- to moderate-income populations, a park project in Collinsville is receiving an additional $10,000 as a result of a resolution passed by the Madison County Board at its regular monthly meeting held on Wednesday, March 18. Administered through the county’s community development…
Read MoreTroy City Council approves six-month moratorium on data processing centers
By Charles Bolinger Editor • No further data processing proposals can come before the Troy City Council until at least mid-September after the city council approved a six-month moratorium on the topic on March 16. Before an audience of between 40 and 50 people, Troy’s City Council took up two ordinances related to data processing centers,…
Read MoreTroy Planning Commission approves six-month moratorium on data processing centers
By Charles Bolinger Editor • Now that Cloverleaf Infrastructure’s data center plan in Troy is dead, city officials have been working in the background to craft a moratorium on future data center proposals to give the city’s planning commission time to further research and investigate ways to strengthen the city’s current ordinance. The planning commission…
Read MoreFormer dairy farm could become Troy’s newest event center, wedding venue
By Charles Bolinger Editor • An old dairy farm on Formosa Road may become an event center and wedding venue if the city approves. Brian Huffman returned to the city’s planning commission on March 12 for an architectural review of the plan. He and his wife live in Maryville and they are pursuing this as…
Read MoreInformal vote shows planning commission split over new Troy hotel concept
By Charles Bolinger Editor • Even though there are currently four hotels in Troy – a Motel 6, a Days Inn, a Red Roof Inn and a Holiday Inn Express, all clustered around the Route 162-Interstate 55-70 interchange, Wyndham Hotels, which owns the Days Inn, thinks there is room here for a fifth hotel. Calling…
Read MoreDriver’s failure to use signal becomes drug, warrant discoveries for Troy Police
By Charles Bolinger Editor • For Troy Police Officer Cody Blackburn, the early morning hours of Feb. 26 had been unremarkable on his patrol until he saw the dark blue 2015 Chevy Malibu sedan heading southbound on Liebler Road at Edwardsville Road. According to Blackburn’s official incident field report, “I observed that the vehicle failed…
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