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New project provides Illinois businesses with employee tobacco cessation program

Written by Liz Smith     URBANA, Ill. – Tobacco use comes with a heavy price to the state and nation, with tobacco-related illnesses estimated to contribute to more than $225 billion in direct medical care costs each year, including $156 billion in lost productivity. Although employer-sponsored tobacco cessation programs provide one effective means to help […]

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New scholarship provides reimbursements for high school students taking Dual Credit/Dual Enrollment courses

JEFFERSON CITY — Students in Missouri have a new option to help them pay for college courses during their junior and senior years of high school. The Missouri Department of Higher Education & Workforce Development (MDHEWD) has a new state financial aid program to reimburse students for the cost of dual credit and dual enrollment

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Perry Co. receives grant for mountain bike trail

JEFFERSON CITY—The Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of the State Parks, has announced that Perry County has been selected as a 2021 grant recipient of $250,000 for a Recreational Trails Program.   Twenty-nine applications were received, with funding request totaling over $4.6 million.   Of those, eight were approved by the Federal Highway Administration

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SIU’s Touch of Nature presents maple syrup production demo Jan. 30

by Christi Mathis CARBONDALE, Ill. — Each spring, Southern Illinois University Carbondale hosts the very popular Maple Syrup Festival at Touch of Nature Environmental Center, and a new event is being added earlier in the lineup – a Maple Syrup Production Demonstration on Jan. 30, 2022. The event, set for 1-4 p.m., will be a

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