Six Jackets score a total of 8 touchdowns; Landeros kicks 7 extra-points; defense smothers Oilers By Jim Beers CHESTER – The Chester High School Football Team opened its 2025 season at home Friday August 29 at W.O. Smith Field. The YellowJackets did it in style, shutting out the East Alton-Wood River Oilers in style by […]
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A funeral will be held Monday, September 8, 2025 for 81-year-old Carl L. Gross of Evansville, Illinois, who passed away at 12:44 pm, Tuesday, September 2, 2025, at Coulterville Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, Coulterville, Illinois. He was born January 5, 1944 in Red Bud, Ill. to Paul H. and Margaret (nee Roy) Gross. They
PERRYVILLE — The August 12, 2025 meeting was called to Order – 4:31 PM by President Glenda Gremaud. The theme for the Year: Moving Forward and the theme for the month of August is: Move Forward in Positivity. After the Pledge of Allegiance, Lucas Fritsche and his mother Jennifer were presented with $271 from our
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CARTERVILLE, Ill. — Read SI, the regional affiliate of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, reports that it has experienced unprecedented enrollment growth, creating an urgent need for additional funding to sustain its mission of providing free, high-quality books to children. The cost for the program’s first year was almost double the initial projection, underscoring the critical importance
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ALTENBURG – The ”Best Little Fair in the Land” will open with a parade at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, September 19, which includes bands, floats and other entries followed by the opening ceremony featuring the parade’s Grand Marshal. Last year a record ten high school marching bands and musical groups from throughout southeast Missouri participated.
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JACKSON – Four American men—fathers, husbands, patriots—continue to bear the personal and legal consequences of protesting the 2020 election on January 6, 2021. Among them: A carpenter of 20 years, devoted husband and father of three who stood for his country and faith. A business owner and history lover, dressed as George Washington,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. – The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has just issued an order that officially removes United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 655 as the exclusive “representative” of a unit of Shangri-La dispensary workers. The order makes official the workers’ victory in their legal effort to remove UFCW union officials from their workplace.
BOSTON – Average gasoline prices in Missouri have risen 0.8 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.87/g Tuesday, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 3,940 stations in Missouri. Prices in Missouri are unchanged versus a month ago and stand 13.9 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel
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JEFFERSON CITY – Five persons died in traffic crashes and one person drowned during the 2025 Labor Day holiday weekend. The 2025 counting period for the Labor Day holiday was from 6 p.m., Friday, August 29, through 11:59 p.m., Monday, September 1. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports the following enforcement activity during 2025
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CHESTER – The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office has released its latest report of arrests: Maissie L. Easton 19, Sparta, arrested August 25, 2025 by Sparta Police on a Randolph County warrant for petition to revoke probation. Pretrial Release. Richard M. Durnell 35, Rockwood, arrested August 28, 2025 by Randolph County Sheriff’s Office on a
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