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Pond and Water Garden on June 21,22

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May & June events around Town

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Movie review: Brideshead Revisited

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BY MAGGIE SCOTT One telling item in the director’s notes accompanying the DVD release of the original filmed version of Brideshead Revisited sums up what is so dismally wrong about…

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Movie review: Step Brothers

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BY MAGGIE SCOTT Packed with good-natured vulgarity and juvenile stupidity, the new comedy Step Brothers is like some perverted "Leave It to Beaver" episode. This free-wheeling parody of blended families…

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Rams Are Right To fine Jackson while he’s not at training camp

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BY RANDY GARDNER Football time has come as the Rams are in their first week of camp in Mequon, Wisconsin, at Concordia University. Things did not start off well as…

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Football post-season field doubles, 8-man final comes to Jones Dome

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BY JIM WIENERS In April 2007 Missouri State High School Activities Association member schools that have football teams voted to double the number of teams from each district to qualify…

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High school sports practices including football begin Aug. 11

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BY JIM WIENERS High Schools that are members of the Missouri State High School Activities Association can start practices for the fall sports season on Monday, Aug. 11. Participating and…

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Walt Disney’s Boyhood Missouri Home Town Hosting ‘Toonfest’

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WALT DISNEY'S BOYHOOD HOME IN MARCELINE, MO. BY MARK FETTERS Families planning a weekend trip in September might do well to circle Marceline, Missouri on their maps. Marceline is the…

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Challenger Learning Center Gets $60,000 Boeing Grant

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More than 100 local teachers will get the chance to take part in activities similar to those performed by NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers thanks to The Challenger Learning Center-St.…

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Florissant Fine Arts Council Sets Applause/Applause ’08-’09 Season

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Florissant Fine Arts Council has announced the Applause/Applause 2008-09 season for shows held at at the Florissant Civic Center Theatre, Parker Road at Waterford Drive. Season and Group Tickets are…

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White Birch Park Water Park is Open

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A TROPICAL WATER PARADISE can be found at Hazelwood's new water park at White Birch Park on Teson Road. When water fills this larger-than-life bucket, it spills over a play…

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White Birch Park Water Park Fun

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THE 360-DEGREE BUBBLE SLIDE provides plenty of jumping and sliding room for swimmers at Hazelwood's new water park at White Birch Park. JANE BANASZEK PHOTO.

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