Note: This information includes highlights from the Ste. Genevieve County R-II Board of Education’s July 21, 2026, Regular Meeting. This is an unofficial record. The official Board Minutes are posted on the district website and are located on Simbli, linked here. The video of the meeting can be found on the district’s Youtube Channel, SGDragonsTV. […]
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CHESTER – A special meeting of the Chester School District Board of Education will be held tonight at 6:00 p.m. in the Chester Early Childhood Center located at 2319 Old Plank Road, Chester, IL. The meeting is open to the public. The tentative agenda:
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CHESTER – A meeting of the Chester Downstate Police Pension Fund will be held Tuesday at 4 p.m. The tentative agenda for the meeting:
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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Instead of signaling an end to the garden’s visual appeal, hot summer weather simply sets the stage for heat-loving flowers to take over and truly shine. The right plant in the right place makes gardens burst with summer color, says University of Missouri Extension horticulture specialist David Trinklein. The wrong plant is
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PERRYVILLE – Firefighters were called out Saturday afternoon to a silo fire at the Gilster Mary Lee plant on North Highway 51 in McBride. According to a news release the alarm was sounded at approximately 1:15 p.m., and the Perry County Rural Fire Department was dispatched to the 8300 block of North Highway 51 for a reported commercial structure fire involving
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By Josh Evans, President and CEO, Illinois Association of Rehabilitation FacilitiesSPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Association of Rehabilitation Facilities (IARF), representing community providers serving Illinoisans with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and serious mental illnesses, today issued the following statement regarding the Pritzker Administration’s latest announcement outlining the transition of residents from Choate Developmental Center: “The leadership shown
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SPRINGFIELD – Members of the Illinois General Assembly’s bipartisan Legislative Ethics Commission (LEC) have voted unanimously to publish the report concerning the complaint against former State Representative Harry Benton (D). Following the vote, Commission Chair State Representative Jeff Keicher released the following statement: “After considering the matter before us for case number 26-005 concerning the
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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo.- As Missouri families head outdoors to enjoy the beauty of summer, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is reminding everyone to appreciate wildlife from a distance and keep wild animals wild. With warmer weather, you may encounter young wildlife such as foxes, raccoons, baby birds, rabbits, and other animals that may
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JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Geological Survey, a division of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, will identify and map the location of historic landslides in southeastern Missouri through a grant recently awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey. The study area will be along the Interstate 55 corridor through the Benton Hills area of Scott
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JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri State Highway Patrol has released its latest report of arrests. Among those listed as arrested: 47-year-old Wesley B. Pinson of Festus at 8:01 p.m. Saturday in Ste. Genevieve County on a patrol charge of driving wile intoxicated. He was taken to the Ste. Genevieve County Jail on a
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