April 2024

GRAMMY Award-Winning The Smashing Pumpkins to headline the Illinois State Fair Grandstand on Friday, August 16th

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SPRINGFIELD, IL – The Illinois State Fair has announced that two-time GRAMMY award-winning The Smashing Pumpkins will headline the Illinois State Fair Grandstand on Friday, August 16. The Smashing Pumpkins are one of the most iconic, iconoclastic and influential bands of all time, shaping alternative music and culture. Since forming in Chicago during 1988, the group have sold over 30 million albums […]

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Justice Matters

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Reflections of Missouri Chief Justice Mary R. Russell  Spring has always been one of my favorite times of year. Winter is ending, trees and flowers are coming into bud, and, best of all, baseball season is getting back into swing! For many years, I have traveled to Florida to watch spring training. Of course, I

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Memorial Hospital’s Patient Safety Initiative

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CHESTER – At Memorial Hospital our priority is our patients, and our mission is their safety. Every one of our employees dedicates themselves to ensuring the best safety practices possible to reduce harm and improve patient outcomes. Memorial recognized Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 10-16, with departments sharing information on the safety practices and improvements

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Missouri Department of Natural Resources photo contest is open for submissions

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JEFFERSON CITY, MO, April 1, 2024 – The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is now accepting entries for its 2024 photo contest. The deadline to submit photos is Sept. 1.   Missouri is home to beautiful natural resources, unique state parks and historic sites, natural phenomena, scenic landscapes, wildlife and more. For the 11th year, the Missouri Department

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Perryville Police reports

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PERRYVILLE — The Perryville Police Department has released its latest reports.   23-year-old Cameron Hardman of Perryville was charged with shoplifting and given a trespass warning after police were called to Rozier’s Food Center by a report of shoplifting at 2:53 p.m. March 16.   28-year-old Jeffrey D. Anderson of Perryville was charged with DWI

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Protecting rural Missouri from the Left’s costly climate agenda

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By Jason Smith, member of Congress WASHINGTON, D.C. – On President Joe Biden’s first day in office, he declared war on American energy by cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have supported thousands of jobs and supplied 830,000 barrels of oil from Canada to U.S. refineries. It’s gotten even worse since then. While his

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Randolph County Sheriff’s Office report

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CHESTER – The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office has released its latest reports.   Anthony W. Schneider 42, Cahokia, arrested March 25, 2024 by Randolph County Sheriff’s Office on a Randolph County warrant for failure to appear on an aggravated fleeing and attempting to elude a police officer charge.  Is incarcerated.   Colinda R. Alstat 47, Marissa,

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SIU String Orchestra performs April 4

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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — The string orchestral talents of Southern Illinois University Carbondale students and faculty will help audiences bring in the spring on Thursday, April 4. The SIU String Orchestra will perform the works of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn, Edward Elgar and Edvard Grieg at 7 p.m. in Shryock Auditorium.

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