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SGMS band students travel to Stifel Theatre for 0rchestra’s Batman performance

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STE. GENEVIEVE – On Sunday, April 6, Ste. Genevieve Middle School band and Fundamentals of Music students traveled to Stifel Theatre in St. Louis to attend a unique performance by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra: a live scoring of Batman, featuring composer Danny Elfman’s original music performed alongside the film.   This marks the fifth […]

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CHS hosts safety assembly and auto accident re-enactment

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CHS SADD Sponsor, Cheri Diercks-Boyd, and Chester Fire Department’s Tim Crow coordinate activities to encourage students’ safe choices   By Jim Beers CHESTER – For decades Chester High School has hosted numerous prom week activities to encourage safe choices for students. Historically nation-wide, homecoming week, prom week and graduation week have been famous for students

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SEMO Strong

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By Senator Jamie Burger When you grow up in southeastern Missouri, you understand right away that water goes where it wants. Last week’s storms wreaked havoc, and I know some of you are still struggling to overcome historic downpours and flooding. Thankfully, our community is SEMO strong and proud as the day is long when

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Chronic wasting disease continues to spread in Illinois

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SPRINGFIELD – Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, has been detected in Putnam, Marshall, Adams, and Peoria counties, expanding the geographic presence of the disease in free-ranging deer populations in northern Illinois, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced today.    Adams County is the first documented case recorded outside of the leading edge of the CWD

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Chester Grade School names “HIVE” award winners

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CHESTER – Twenty students at Chester Grade School were presented with “HIVE” awards Friday March 28 for demonstrating one of the four basic “HIVE” good character traits of RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, or EMPATHY. The winners were nominated by CGS teachers or staff members. Winners are presented in no particular order but by the “HIVE” trait

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Nine CGS students named March Jackets of the Month

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CHESTER – Several Chester Grade School students were recognized Friday March 28 as the “March 2025 Jackets of the Month”.   The students were nominated by CGS teachers or staff members for having demonstrated all four of the “HIVE” good character traits of RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, and EMPATHY every day throughout the month of March.

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