CHESTER – The 2025 Chester High School Prom Court has been unveiled. Pictured are the members of the 2025 Chester High School Prom Court. (Front row, left to right) are Camryn Wolff, Junior Princess Candidate; Sadessa Sellers, Senior Queen Candidate; Mirra Krieg, Senior Queen Candidate; Whitney Sulser, Senior Queen Candidate; and Callie Davis, […]
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PERRYVILLE – The tentative agenda for Tuesday’s meeting of the Perryville Board of Aldermen has been released. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. and is open to the public. The tentative agenda: PV Agenda NOTES Apr 1 2025 The most recent meeting minutes available: PV Minutes
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JEFFERSON CITY Mo. – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued the following statement after Planned Parenthood Great Plains filed a countersuit, claiming that Amendment 3 grants them a constitutional right to traffic minors across state lines to obtain abortions—without parental consent: “Our children deserve to be protected—not trafficked across state lines for dangerous and clandestine abortion procedures at
CHESTER – The following students at Chester Grade School were recognized as the February 2025 “Jackets of the Month”. Pictured (left to right) are Lisa Ketchum, Faculty Member of the Month; Kru Jany, Kindergarten, Maelee McDonough, 2nd Grade, Wyoma McGuire, 3rd Grade; Brycen Petrowske, 4th Grade; Ryker Ridings, 5th Grade; Mabrie Cushman, 7th
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By Jim Beers CHESTER — The Chester Grade School Jr. High Band, under the direction of Sue Colonel, traveled to Marion, Illinois Friday March 28 to compete in the 2025 IGSMA Organizational Music Contest. The group earned an “Excellent” rating at their 4:00 p.m. performance. Sue Colonel, Chester Grade School Jr. High Band
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CHESTER – Twenty-three Chester Grade School students were recognized last month with “HIVE” Good Character Awards. Students were nominated for demonstrating one of the four “HIVE” Character Traits of Respect, Responsibility, Safety, or Empathy. Pictured (in no particular order) are the students. They are listed by the “HIVE” character trait for which
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Promises Made, Promises Kept For four years, Missourians suffered under a Biden Administration that prioritized radicals, wealthy environmentalists, and far-left policies at the expense of working families, farmers, and small businesses. Prices under President Biden increased 21 percent; real wages fell 3.2 percent; monthly mortgage payments were up 88 percent; and interest rates hit their
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Police (ISP) has welcomed 32 new troopers from Cadet Class 149 at a graduation ceremony at the Illinois State Police Academy in Springfield. The new troopers reported to all 10 ISP Troop locations throughout the state. Cadet Class 149 marks the 21st cadet class graduation under Governor JB Pritzker and
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Lieutenant Governor David Wasinger is proud to announce that the winner of the annual Lake of the Ozarks Shootout—the largest unsanctioned boat race in the country—will once again be awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Cup. “The Lake of the Ozarks Shootout is one of Missouri’s premier events,” said Lieutenant Governor Wasinger. “This
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COLUMBIA — Historical archeologist Erin Whitson examines one of the darkest times in our nation as 60,000 Native Americans were forced from their ancestral lands on the deadly Trail of Tears to Oklahoma. In 1889, Wahnenauhi (Lucy Keys), a survivor of the infamous “Trail of Tears”, wrote, that “despair in its thickest blackness” settled
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