STE. GENEVIEVE – Ste. Genevieve Elementary School has introduced its 2023 Dancing Dragons group. The group is comprised of kindergarten through fifth grade students and are led by Megan Kueker and Amelia Wibbenmeyer. The Dancing Dragons will lead the school in spirt, cheer, and dance. They will perform at various school events throughout the school […]
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JONESBORO – Arkansas State University has announced the list of students who completed degree requirements to graduate at Fall Commencement, held Dec. 17 in First National Bank Arena. The list includes one student from the River Region. Saint Mary: Jadyn N. LeClere, Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
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STE. GENEVIEVE – The minutes of the Thursday, Feb. 9 meeting of the Ste. Genevieve County Commission have been released. SG COUNTY MINUTES-4
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POTOSI, Mo. — Successfully transitioning a family farming business to the next generation doesn’t happen overnight. To be successful, it takes advanced planning and lots open communication between all parties. To help families start the succession planning process and initiate communication, MU Extension will lead the free two-hour workshops across the state in March,
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STE. GENEVIEVE — Ste. Genevieve City sales tax receipts are in for the month of January. The city’s one percent sales tax brought in $74,849.13, which is up $34,730.18 from January 2022. The other city sales taxes were also up: The Capital Improvements and Mass Transportation taxes brought in $36,836 each.
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Written by Herbert Chavez URBANA, Ill. — Last year, the Home-to-Market Act, a set of legislative updates to the Cottage Food Law, came into effect in Illinois. Before this legislation passed, food operators could only sell homemade foods through farmers markets with few exceptions. Now, this amendment allows owners to grow their businesses by expanding
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BLOOMSDALE – Bloomsdale Elementary School held a groundbreaking ceremony recently to start construction of a new addition to the school. Voters approved this and several other projects in the Ste. Genevieve County R-II School District by approving a no-tax rate increase $20 million bond referendum, with 70.51 percent support last year. The bond issue will
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CHESTER – Several Chester Grade School students were recognized for demonstrating the character trait of the month, “Self-Awareness”. Pictured are (front row, left to right) Taylor Luthy, Khole Beam, Sawyer Miller, and Carsen Mehrer. (Back row, left to right) are Raelynn Reynolds, Curi Davis, Makenzly Stewart, Lucas Buskirk, Landon Coffey, Penny Benson, and Conner Long.
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PERRYVILLE — Donze Communications out of Perryville announces the signing of Randy Raley through 2023. Donze also announces Randy has been promoted to the position of Music Director. “We’ve pretty much let Randy have the keys to our music on KBDZ (93.1FM.)” General Manager Kevin Russell says. “We don’t have a corporate playlist and with
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LENEXA, Kan – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the second wave of approximately $1 billion in funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to start new cleanup projects at 22 Superfund sites, including the Valley Park TCE Site in Valley Park, Missouri, and to expedite over 100 other ongoing cleanups across the
