ST. MARY – The St. Mary Board of Aldermen will meet in regular and closed sessions Thursday. The tentative agenda: ST. MARY BOARD OF ALDERMEN MEETING Posted June 6th, 2023 Notice is hereby given that the St. Mary Board of Aldermen will have a Meeting at 6:00 PM on June 8th, 2023 […]
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COLUMBIA – From setting personal records to rocking it out at the dance, Special Olympics Missouri (SOMO) athletes made the most of their time at the 2023 State Summer Games. The Games brought more than 1,000 athletes, coaches, volunteers and Unified partners from across the state to Columbia, June 2-4. SOMO was thankful to have
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STE, GENEVIEVE – From April 6 to April 20, Ste. Genevieve High School welcomed six students from France, as well as their adult chaperones. The students stayed with SGHS host families and shadowed their American peers around school and in their classes. This is the fourth year that SGHS has hosted students through an exchange
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Howie, who was killed in WWII action, was finally located, identified, brought home, and given full military funeral at St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery BY JIM BEERS Contributing Writer CHESTER – James Mills Howie was born June 12, 1919 to M.S. and Minerva Howie. He was a member of the United States Air Force and fought
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has been named the 2023 March Fong Eu Achievement recipient by the National Notary Association (NNA). Since 1979, the award recognizes officials for their significant achievement in improving standards, image and effectiveness of the office of notary public. Past honorees from Missouri include then Secretary of
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CHESTER – The Chester Women’s Club hosted the club’s annual Chester High School Senior Girls’ Tea on Friday afternoon, March 23 at the fellowship hall of the First United Church. Following an hors d’oeuvre buffet, Tammy Grah presented a power point program titled “Back In Time”, featuring a pictoral history of Chester High School. In
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PERRYVILLE — Led by local Girl Scout Cadettes and Volunteers, Perryville Service Unit 763 Girl Scout Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors enjoyed a beautiful day at Day Camp on June 2, 2023. Girls earned the Beginner and Intermediate bars of the Girl Scouts of the Missouri Heartland Outdoor Skills patch.
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JEFFERSON CITY, MO, – A well installation team from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ Missouri Geological Survey was on scene at Bennett Spring State Park working toward plugging an abandoned water well within the park. The project follows the successful plugging of an abandoned well in Johnson Shut-Ins State Park last year and several
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BOSTON, Mass. — Average gasoline prices in Missouri have fallen 3.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.20/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 3,940 stations in Missouri. Prices in Missouri are 8.1 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 129.0 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The
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PEORIA— Governor JB Pritzker continued his statewide budget amplification tour with stops to Peoria and Quincy. The FY24 budget is Illinois’s fifth balanced budget under Governor Pritzker and is preceded by eight credit rating upgrades, a “rainy day” fund set to surpass $2 billion, the elimination of the bill backlog, and $1 trillion in GDP.
