JEFFERSON CITY — A 66-year-old man from Ava, Illinois suffered minor injuries in a traffic crash Wednesday morning on I-44 in Phelps County, Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports Micky R. Lawson was taken to Phelps Health in Rolla by St. James EMS. The patrol says Lawson was a passenger in a […]
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JEFFERSON CITY–Missouri Director of Agriculture Chris Chinn announced that 22 youth groups from across Missouri were awarded grants from the Missouri Department of Agriculture’s 2023 Building Our American Communities grant program. Eleven local chapters of the National FFA Organization and 11 Missouri 4-H clubs statewide have been awarded funds for their community service projects this
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CHESTER — Marilyn Duensing, Operating Room LPN, will be donning her scrubs one last time the end of January, as she plans to retire from Memorial Hospital in Chester after 50 years of service. Memorial Hospital staff celebrated her retirement on January 26 with a cake and punch reception. Brett Bollmann, CEO of Memorial, presented
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JEFFERSON CITY – A 21-year-old East St. Louis woman, Zykeara A. Smith suffered minor injuries in a traffic crash on I-55 in Ste. Genevieve County Wednesday morning. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports Smith was taken to Mercy Hospital Jefferson by ambulance. The patrol says the crash happened when the northbound 2013 Nissan
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Janet Woodcock, M.D.Principal Deputy Commissioner – Office of the Commissioner WASHINGTON, D.C. – Given the growing cannabidiol (CBD) products market, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration convened a high-level internal working group to explore potential regulatory pathways for CBD products. Today we are announcing that after careful review, the FDA has concluded that a new
STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. – A coalition of environmental groups including: Sierra Club, Friends of Hawn, and Operation Sand joined forces to challenge a water permit issued by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to Nexgen Silica, LLC for the proposed sand mining facility to be located in Sainte Genevieve County along Highway 32. The
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Community Service Commission (MCSC) announced Wednesday that AmeriCorps determined more than 1.4 million Missourians formally volunteered through an organization from September 2020 to September 2021. These volunteer efforts made a $3.1 billion impact on the state, establishing Missouri as 10th in the nation for formal volunteerism. “Our state
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CHESTER — A Chester woman is among the students listed in the Spring 2023 Dean’s List at the University of Illinois College of Applied Health. Parker Knippa is the daughter of Jill Middendorf. To be included in the Dean’s List she was required to obtain a minimum 3.9 grade point average. She is
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PERRYVILLE — The Perry County School District No. 32 special board meeting scheduled for this week was rescheduled for next Thursday, February 2. The updated agenda:
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STE. GENEVIEVE — Ste. Genevieve Project Pioneer will meet with the Le Clere and Wehner families, who were named the honored families for 2023 at Opening Ceremonies of the 2022 Jour de Fete, on Saturday, Feb. 11 at 10 a.m. in the upstairs meeting room at the Ste. Genevieve Museum Learning Center, 360 Market St.
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