CHESTER – Dieterich Bank is hosting a food and hygiene item drive for the Chester High School Food Pantry. The Chester Branch will be accepting nonperishable food items, such as, cereal, Pop Tarts, popcorn, granola bars, Chef Boyardee ravioli and easy mac n cheese. Additionally, we are accepting hygiene items for boys and girls, such […]
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KASKASKIA RIVER PROJECT, Ill. — The 2023 Eagle Fest event will be held on Saturday, March 4th from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the Jerry F. Costello Lock & Dam in Modoc, IL (4800 Lock and Dam Road). Join us for eagle-watching with spotting scopes and meet some of our feathered friends from
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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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ROLLA, Mo. — Missouri University of Science and Technology announces the names of students who made the honor list for the Fall 2022 semester. To be included on the honor list, students must have carried a minimum of 12 hours and had grade point averages of 3.2 or above out of a possible 4.0.
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by Christi Mathis CARBONDALE, Ill. — There are countless ways to make math easier to comprehend and to enable people to better learn it, and that’s what Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s 37th annual Conference on Teaching Mathematics is all about. The conference, coordinated by Conference and Scheduling Services, provides valuable ideas and information for teachers,
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CHESTER – A Chester student who is in his second year of an advance Masters program at Southeastern College, Wake Forest, North Carolina has been named to the school’s Dean’s List. Ridge Fogerson is the son of Rev. Mike and Pam Fogerson. To be named to the Dean’s List Ridge was required to complete
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by Tim Crosby CARBONDALE, Ill. – Two cars leaving from opposite cities traveling toward each other will meet more quickly than one car driving all the way to the other car sitting stationary. That’s the fundamental premise behind a Southern Illinois University Carbondale researcher’s newly funded project using light and chemistry to improve how medicines
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by Christi Mathis CARBONDALE, Ill. — A Feb. 15-16 event at Southern Illinois University Carbondale literally offers the chance to save a life. Ari Chambers-Baltz was born in May 2021 to Saluki family members Stephanie Chambers-Baltz and Daniel Baltz, and in July 2022 was diagnosed with Hyper IGM, an inborn immune disorder that prevents
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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Filmmaker and former Southern Illinois University Carbondale faculty member Sarah Kanouse will bring a combination of storytelling, lecture and live documentary film to campus later this month. With an electrical corona discharge and a photograph from a ceremony marking the arrival of power from the Hoover Dam to Los
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