Bill Enyart, US Army Maj. General retired, will be guest speaker By Jim Beers CHESTER – Veteran’s Day is Saturday November 11, 2023 and this year’s host for the Annual Chester Veteran’s Day Program will be the American Legion in Chester. The event takes place at the American Legion Post 487 in Chester located at […]
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SIKESTON, Mo. – The Missouri and Illinois Departments of Transportation will hold a groundbreaking ceremony to commemorate the start of construction for the Don Welge Memorial Bridge (formerly Chester Bridge). The ceremony will be held today at 11 a.m. on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River at the Don Welge Memorial Bridge construction
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CHESTER – Monday, October 30, 2023 was Dr. Stephen Platt’s last day as a Family Healthcare Physician at Memorial Hospital’s Rural Health Clinics. He has served 46 years as a family doctor in Chester, Ill. Memorial Hospital hosted a retirement party for him at the Chester Country Club on October 29. Dr. Platt began his
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SIKESTON—The monthly meeting of the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission will be held Wednesday, Nov. 1 at the Perry Park Center, located at 800 City Park Lane in Perryville, Missouri. The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. and is open to the public and media. The Commission is a six-member bipartisan board that governs the
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PERRYVILLE – The Perryville Police Department has released its latest reports. 19-year-old Dylan Coatney of Perryville was arrested on a fugitive warrant out of St Mary. The arrest followed a traffic stop on West Ste. Marie Street near Main Street at 4:16 p.m. October 24th. 26-year-old Kalynn L. Francis of Jackson was cited
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CHESTER – The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office has released its latest report of arrests. Michelle L. Collins 49, Campbell Hill, arrested October 23, 2023 by Randolph County Sheriff’s Office for retail theft. Pretrial release. Kenneth D. Smith 41, Prairie Du Rocher, arrested October 24, 2023 by Prairie Du Rocher Police on a Randolph County
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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Art students in Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Art and Design will host their free, annual fall cast iron pour, beginning at noon Saturday, Nov. 4. Those attending will have the chance to create their own cast iron art pieces using scratch blocks, tiles comprising resin-bonded sand used in creating
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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Five undergraduate students will share their thoughts on media literacy and disinformation in a student speakers public forum on Thursday, Nov. 2, in the Student Center Auditorium. This semester’s topic is “Is that a Fact? Media Literacy and (M/Dis)information.” The free, public forum is from 7 to 8 p.m.
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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Keeping an open mind and considering other possibilities, including communicating with space aliens, is the centerpiece of a Nov. 2 lecture hosted by Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s University Honors Program and the School of Languages and Linguistics. Sheri Wells-Jensen, an associate professor of linguistics at Bowling Green State University and a 1993 SIU Carbondale
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STE. GENEVIEVE – The minutes of the Thursday, October 26, 2023 meeting of the Ste. Genevieve County Commission have been released . SG CO COMMISSION
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