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Remember Memorial Day and all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for Our Freedom

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St. Louis Zoo Reopened Monday

Extensive tree damage at St. Louis Zoo after Storm, Still...

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Ferguson Twilight Run is Saturday May 17

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Pond and Water Garden on June 21,22

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Too Little Prayer?

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  • Post published:November 3, 2020
  • Post category:Columnists/Entertainment / Travel/Florissant/Missouri

A Boomer's Journal: Sometimes it All Comes Down to Prayer Remember the song by Jackie De Shannon from 1965, "What the World Needs Now?" The answer to that was "love,…

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Florissant City Council highlights

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  • Post published:October 28, 2020
  • Post category:Business News/City Government/Florissant

Council Hears Plans For Domino’s, Take 5 Oil Change, Café NoCo  Restaurant At Parker Spur   By Carol Arnett The Florissant City Council met via Zoom on Monday for the…

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  • Post published:October 28, 2020
  • Post category:FloValley Sports/School News/Sports

Are 0-3 Trinity, 3-0 Lutheran North Upper-Class Postseason Ready? By Jim Wieners Nine weeks of Missouri High School Football are over but 0-3 Trinity Catholic and 3-0 Lutheran North played…

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HSD School Board Affirms No In-Classroom Learning this year

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  • Post published:October 22, 2020
  • Post category:Education/Ferguson/Florissant/Hazelwood/School News

Hazelwood District Also Will Continue Virtual Classes until Jan. 8 The Hazelwood School District Board of Education voted Monday for all students to continue attending school 100% virtually through the…

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Commentary on Nov. 5th ballot issue

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  • Post published:October 19, 2020
  • Post category:Columnists/Florissant/Missouri

  Vote ‘No' on GOP’s Constitutional Amendment That Would Redistrict State Legislative Districts                 By Tom Schneider During the 2020 Missouri legislative session the Republicans put a constitutional amendment on…

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Florissant Couple Finds Graves in Backyard

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  • Post published:October 15, 2020
  • Post category:Entertainment / Travel/Features/Florissant/Historic/Missouri

Old Town Couple Received a Late Summer Scare By Nichole Richardson On a late summer day this year, Cody Miller and his girlfriend, Lauren Merz, decided to do a typical…

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Positive Thoughts on a Perfect Patio

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  • Post published:October 15, 2020
  • Post category:Columnists/Dining Out/Entertainment / Travel

Dining Divas Discover Another Perfect Patio at Favazzas, But Wonder about Winter Dining For almost two decades (or is it more than that already?), the Dining Divas have been supporting…

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Enjoy October’s Traits

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  • Post published:October 15, 2020
  • Post category:Columnists/Entertainment / Travel

A Boomer’s Journal: Awesomeness of the Tenth Month And so, October comes. Wait, WHAT!? October? Are you even kidding me? How could that be, and what happened to September? (Parenthetically,…

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Keep Kids in School to Avoid Crime

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  • Post published:October 15, 2020
  • Post category:Columnists/Crime/Education/School News

Crime Causation Has Many Reasons; Keeping Students in School is the Top Priority By Rance Thomas What can be done to reduce the increasing crime rate in the United States?…

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Council Meeting includes New request for new Chase Bank building

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  • Post published:October 14, 2020
  • Post category:Business News/Dining Out/Florissant

Florissant to Make City Budget Changes                            By Carol Arnett The Florissant City Council at its virtual meeting Monday had a full agenda, with three public hearings and several bills.…

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