January 2025

Lady Jackets come back from 2-week break with back-to-back losses in Week 8

Fall to Red Bud, 50-40, and Carlyle, 74-27, in Cahokia Conference, Illinois Division play By Jim Beers CHESTER – The Chester High School Lady Jacket Basketball Team has had a tough start to the New Year!  The Lady Jackets did well at the Saxony Lutheran Tournament December 16-20, 2024, and had one game at Massac

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Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen votes to proceed with possible  leasing of land to MAC for new tech outreach facility

STE. GENEVIEVE – The Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen last night approved on a 7-0-1 vote a resolution which indicates the city’s interest in leasing land along Progress Parkway to Mineral Area College for construction of an educational facility to be known as MAC Tech Outreach.   The positive vote allows MAC to seek a

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Cape County’s newly-elected coroner, Craig Williams, will speak at Guardians of Liberty meeting

CAPE GIRARDEAU – Craig Williams, a fifth-generation funeral professional and licensed funeral director, embalmer and crematory operator who has lived in Cape Girardeau County for the past six years will speak at the February meeting of the Guardians of Liberty in Southeast Missouri.   Williams has a mortuary science degree from Forest Park in St.

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December 2024 Monthly Jobs Report

JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri nonfarm payroll employment increased by 11,200 jobs in December 2024, and the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 3.7 percent. Private industry employment increased by 8,400 jobs and government employment increased by 2,800 jobs. Over the year, there was an increase of 84,700 jobs from December 2023 to December 2024, and

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Missouri job openings and labor turnover – November 2024

KANSAS CITY – The Mountain-Plains Information Office of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics today released Missouri Job Openings and Labor Turnover – November 2024. Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted these Missouri highlights:   Missouri had 186,000 job openings in November, compared to 193,000 job openings in October.   The job openings rate

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