PERRYVILLE, Mo. – Perryville just got a whole lot tastier with a new DQ® restaurant coming to town. American Dairy Queen Corporation (ADQ), an iconic leader in treats and food, announced today a new DQ Restaurant with its grand opening on November 18. Nicely situated at 790 South Perryville Blvd., the new restaurant will be owned by local […]
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) will observe U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week November 18-24, 2024. The annual event is intended to increase public knowledge about the importance of careful use of antibiotics in order to prevent antimicrobial resistance, where bacteria and other germs develop an immunity to the drugs that were designed to fight
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) announced today that nonfarm payrolls were down -2,400 while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.3 percent in September, based on preliminary data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and released by IDES. The September monthly change in payrolls was revised from the preliminary
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ROLLA, MO. — Daniel “Danny” Sisco serves as an example of what a person with truly professional attitude can gain as a participant in a disability placement program. For the past five years, he trained with Mark Twain National Forest, serving as a Customer Service Representative (CSR) at the Eleven Point Ranger District through the MERS
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ROLLA — Recovery continues at recreation sites across the Mark Twain National Forest from recent flooding. Some areas of in Missouri received nearly 15 inches of rain, with the heavy rainfall more localized than the widespread flooding that affected Missouri in 2017. Following a heavy rainfall event, it takes time for water to recede so
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SPRINGFIELD – Illinois House Minority Leader Tony McCombie has filed legislation to protect funding for essential programs that deliver meals to senior citizens in need. Meal delivery programs, like Meals on Wheels, have experienced recent funding delays putting their services in jeopardy. Leader McCombie’s newly filed legislation, HB5911, seeks to address that issue by driving additional
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TOLEDO, OH – A college student from Steeleville, IL has been awarded honors for the Summer 2024 semester at Mercy College of Ohio. Terri Little, BS in Medical Imaging, was named to the Honors List. To be named to the Honor’s List, a student must achieve a grade point average of 3.3 or higher
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Missouri has consistently ranked within the top 15 states nationally for collisions involving deer. The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance (DCI) warns drivers to be mindful of deer and other wild animals that commonly cross the roadways as temperatures drop and nights become longer. In 2023,
CHESTER — A plaque honoring Chester Community Unit School District 139 benefactor Professor James Franklin Sharp has been installed on the front of the Chester, Illinois High School Colbert Gymnasium Building. The plaque is between the center double doors and right double doors, that enter into the Professor Sharp Cafeteria & Entrance Lobby.
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By Jason Smith, member of Congress WASHINGTON, D.C. – Over the last four years, the world has become an increasingly dangerous place thanks to the lack of leadership and failed policies of the Biden administration. A war is raging in Europe for the first time since WWII. The evil Iranian regime and its terror proxies
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