CHESTER – A pair of canoers carefully travel down the Mississippi River Saturday June 11 near the old sand company in Chester. Further up the river the pair had stopped briefly at the Chester River front and continued their journey south at roughly 2:30 p.m. Both men seemed content and in control of […]
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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – With hot temperatures and high humidity on the horizon, the American Red Cross of Missouri and Arkansas urges residents to take precautions against the heat. According to the National Library of Medicine, extreme heat causes more deaths than any other weather-related hazard, killing 12,000 people living in the U.S. each year.
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The Missouri Department of Natural Resources gave residents of Ste. Genevieve County false hope they would seriously scrutinize the potential environmental danger and health risk associated with the NextGen Silica sand mine near Hawn State Park; that never happened. From the statements and behavior of the DNR Mining and Land Reclamation Office, I can tell
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STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. – Julie Bova, Circuit Clerk, is one of 55 graduates of the Missouri Court Management Institute recognized in a ceremony held May 20, 2022, at the Supreme Court of Missouri in Jefferson City. Bova’s completion of the institute qualifies her for designation as a “certified court manager” by the National Center for
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CHESTER – A regular meeting of the Chester School District Board of Education will be held June 16, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. in the High School Family & Consumer Science Classroom located at 1901 Swanwick Street, Chester, Ill. The tentative agenda: CHESTER SCHOOL BOARD AGENDA
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CHESTER – The Chester Parks and Recreation Committee will meet Wednesday at 6 p.m. in city hall, 1330 Swanwick Street. The meeting is open to the public. The tentative agenda: CHESTER PARK BOARD AGENDA
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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. – Common Defense, a grassroots organization of progressive veterans with more than 250,000 members, is proud to announce its endorsement of Lucas Kunce for the 2022 midterm Senate race in Missouri. Common Defense-endorsed candidates are individuals who we believe best capture the grassroots energy of our political moment to champion a policy
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Area prices were up 1.5 percent over the past month, up 8.8 percent from a year ago. Prices in the Midwest Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), advanced 1.5 percent in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The food index
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JEFFERSON CITY — The number of new COVID-19 cases continues to climb in the state of Missouri. The CDC reports the number of confirmed and probable cases in Missouri for the past seven days was 9,731 up 1,128 or 13 percent more than the previous week’s total There were 21 new COVID-19 cases
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STE. GENEVIEVE – The Missouri State Highway Patrol would like to remind the public that driver examination stations throughout the state will be closed on the following date: Monday, June 20, 2022, in observance of Juneteenth. Normal operations will resume on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Too many people die in traffic crashes each year in
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