By Jim Beers, Contributing Writer CHESTER – The Chester Grade School Spring Concert was held Thursday April 28 at 6:30 p.m. The annual event was held at the Chester High School Colbert Gymnasium to allow for maximum seating for spectators and ample floor space for the 5th, 6th, and Junior High Bands as well […]
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By Jim Beers, Contributing Writer CHESTER—The Chester High School Environmental Club, “The Green Team”, recently conducted a project to help create awareness about how polluted our oceans have become. The project included a 3-week fundraiser that raised $345.91 to help clean up the ocean. CHS Science teacher Carolyn Kish organized the Environmental Club
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CHESTER – Today, April 30, 2022 is DEA Drug Take Back day. Locally Chester and Sparta Police Departments offer 24/7 drug collection. Red Bud Police Department provides access to a drop box at Red Bud City Hall Monday to Friday from 730AM to 4PM. The Red Bud City Council will be considering
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Two River Region women have been inducted into the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi. Megan Roy of Red Bud attends McKendree University and Rozlyn Wahlen of Caseyville attends the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They are among approximately 25,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated
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by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — The academic achievements of more than 1,800 Southern Illinois University Carbondale students will be celebrated during spring 2022 commencement exercises May 6-7. Festivities start with the SIU School of Law commencement on Friday, May 6, at Shryock Auditorium. On Saturday, May 7, Banterra Center will hold two commencement
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CHESTER – The Chester City Council will meet in regular session at 6 p.m. Monday, May 2, 2022 in the Municipal Building, 1330 Swanwick Street, Chester, Illinois. The meeting is open to the public. The tentative agenda: CHESTER, ILLINOIS CITY COUNCIL AGENDA May 2, 2022 CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL
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UNIVERSITY, Miss. — A Chester woman has been inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. Lauren Welge is graduating from the University of Mississippi with a B.A. in Allied Health Studies. She was among the more than 140 University of Mississippi students who were welcomed into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society,
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WATERLOO, Ill. – Republican candidate for Governor Paul Schimpf says the State of Illinois should require public schools to enforce curriculum transparency in order to qualify for state education funding. The increased transparency, part of Schimpf’s “A New Start to Illinois” plan, would allow parents to know what their children are being taught and provide
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ST. LOUIS—Rotarian Ralph Zuke plans to ride from St. Louis to the Rotary International Convention in Houston, Tex. to support Rotary’s mission of eradicating polio. The ride will start on May 3rd and end the day before the conference June 3rd. The ride will be a little over 1000 miles long, though Ralph is no
By Jim Beers, Contributing Writer CHESTER — Earth Day 2022 was Friday April 22 and Chester High School science teachers, Evelyn Hankins and Carolyn Kish, teamed-up to coordinate a top-notch Earth Day event that involved the entire school in cooperation with the City of Chester. Hankins said, “I was the Sponsor of the event.
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