July 2023

SIU expert in TV, film can provide insight on SAG-AFTRA potential strike

By Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — The nation’s film and television industry will “shut down” if the union representing Hollywood actors goes on strike, according to Pirooz Kalayeh, an assistant professor of scriptwriting and film production at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.   “You can’t make anything without actors,” Kalayeh said.     If SAG-AFTRA members

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SIU interns, athletes help NubAbility succeed in its mission to serve limb-different children

by Christi Mathis CARBONDALE, Ill. — As a Southern Illinois University Carbondale football player, James Ceasar, of Detroit, joined his teammates in volunteering at NubAbility, a nonprofit that hosts sports camps for young, limb-different athletes, giving them the opportunity to be with other children like them and learn how very much they can do. Now back

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SIU’s Paul Simon Institute virtual talk will feature The HistoryMakers founder

CARBONDALE, Ill. — Julieanna L. Richardson, creator, founder and executive director of The HistoryMakers, the largest national collection of Black video oral histories since a Works Progress Administration initiative in the mid-1930s, will join Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute for a virtual discussion on July 24.     Richardson and Shaw,

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St. Louis woman allegedly carrying 65 Fentanyl pills arrested in Ste. Genevieve County

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri State Highway Patrol has released its latest reports. Among those listed as arrested: 24-year-old Heaven A. Myers of St. Louis at 5:26 p.m. Thursday in Ste. Genevieve County on patrol charge of possession of a controlled substance, 65 pills of Fentanyl; possession with intent to distribute and possession inside a

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Ste. Genevieve Board of Meeting held last night

STE. GENEVIEVE – The Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen met in regular and work sessions last evening. Alderman Gary Smith was absent. Reports were presented by the tourism director, fire chief, and community development administrator. The consent agenda was approved: A liquor license was approved for The Beacon South, doing business as Gibson’s Sports Tavern

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