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CGS Character Awards honor students with Social Awareness

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CHESTER – Chester Grade School honored 14 students with Character Awards recently for exhibiting social awareness: Bobby Ireland, Bree Johnson, Khloe Beam, Adaya Wunderlich, Lenna Nesbit, Bohdi Helmers, Bryson Gray, Bronx Carroll, Elizabeth Absher, Silas Kinkade, Jude Medrano, Alyvia Grau, Gracelynn Ebers, and Killian Keeler.    Pictured (left to right) are Bobby Ireland and Bree […]

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Christmas on the River, Nativity, Craft Sale

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CHESTER — The First United Methodist Church in Chester featured its’ Life-Sized” Nativity scene for the “Christmas on the River” weekend December 3-5.  The Nativity set is nearly 70 years old and has graced the front lawn of the Church each Christmas since its’ creation.  Jim Beers Photo  Beth Bell, formerly Beth Stumpe of Chester,

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Illinois gets $300 Million in child care recovery grants

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CHICAGO – Governor JB Pritzker and Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) Secretary Grace B. Hou have announced that $300 million in new relief grants will be made available to child care providers across the state. The state is also extending a previous grant program by providing nearly $50 million to previous grant recipients. This

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Investigators raid storage units, locate millions in stolen loot

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Chicago  — Attorney General Kwame Raoul has announced that his Organized Retail Crime Task Force recovered thousands of stolen goods at several storage units in Chicago. This is the first major bust as a result of the work of the Organized Retail Crime Task Force that is spearheaded by the Attorney General’s office. “The stolen

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MoDHSS: COVID-19 cases increase 25% in Missouri

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JEFFERSON CITY — The number of COVID-19 cases in Missouri continues to rise as the seven day total of confirmed and probable cases was 17,148 for the week ending December 2nd. That’s an increase of nearly 25 percent since the report for the week ending November 30th. The number of confirmed and probable deaths was

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Unemployment is down in Perry, Ste. Genevieve Counties

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JEFFERSON CITY — The unemployment rate is down in Perry and Ste. Genevieve Counties. The Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development has released the October 2021 unemployment rates. Perry County’s jobless rate has fallen 0.3 percent in the past year, from 2.4 percent in October 2020 to 2.1 percent in October 2021. The

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