STE. GENEVIEVE — This year’s Ste. Genevieve High School 2022 Prom was a great success! The Hollywood theme left everyone feeling like superstars as they danced round a brightly-lit Hollywood sign backdrop and took photos with life-size cardboard A-listers, such as Taylor Swift and Zac Efron. Christian Kiefer and Serena Garcia were crowned the 2022 […]
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CHESTER – Chester Police direct traffic Friday April 22 after a Legacy Hauling truck dropped its drive shaft during the early morning business hours. The accident took place on the hill alongside Rowold Hardware after the truckdriver made a right from Rt. 150 east intending to go up the hill to proceed on RT. 3
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CHESTER — Two persons died and one person was hurt in a traffic crash on Broadway Street in Steeleville Friday afternoon. The Illinois State Police report 26-year-old Dakota Morrison of Chester was pronounced at the scene; 31year-old Diane M. Gilmer of Steeleville succumbed at an area hospital and 34-year-old Nicholas T. Cook of Du Quoin
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JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri State Highway Patrol has released its latest reports. Among those listed as arrested: 31-year-old Peter J. Daniel-Clay of North Little Rock, Arkansas at 10:59 p.m. Friday in Perry County on a St. Charles County warrant for failing to register a motor vehicle, on a Cape Girardeau County warrant for failing
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CHESTER – Katie Walls of Percy donated blood at the Red Cross Blood Drive Wednesday April 13. The drive was held at the Chester American Legion. Walls has been donating blood since high school when she donated at an FBLD Blood Drive in Steeleville. On March 13 Walls was donating via a Power Red procedure.
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Friday reported 19,551 new confirmed and probable cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois. That’s an increase of 5,502 or 39 percent from the previous week’s 14,049. Randolph County, Illinois reported 13 new cases in the past week. Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 3,114,036
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CHESTER — A Chester woman is being honored as the 2022 Distinguished Member of the Illinois Health Information Management Association. Donna Young, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, began her career in 1979 as a coder in the medical records department of Memorial Hospital in Chester. She received her first credential, Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) in 1992.
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JEFFERSON CITY — The number of new COVID-19 cases is up in the state of Missouri. The number of confirmed and probable cases in Missouri for the past seven days was 2,496 up 917 or 58 percent from the previous week’s total of 1,579. Locally, there were no new COVID-19 cases in Perry and Ste.
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By Jason Smith, member of Congress After two years of evidence from COVID lockdown policies and restrictions, we’ve learned three things pretty clearly. First, we’ve learned that states and cities that locked down harmed their own citizens through reduced job opportunities and mental health challenges associated with isolation. Second, we have learned that the Biden administration
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By Holley Rehder, State Senator We’re rapidly approaching the end of the 2022 legislative session. May 6 is the constitutional deadline for passing a balanced state operating budget, and May 13 is the final day of session. With time running out, and so many legislative priorities yet to get across the line, we’re finally seeing
