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Chester Cooper Shares His Love of Kites at Garden Villas
CHESTER (CHET) COOPER, a Garden Villas North resident, puts the finishing touches on a kite while children from the Communities Early Childhood Center watch. Life-long North County resident and business…
Record Breaking Catch! Florissant Angler Catches 130-Pound Blue Catfish Near Columbia Bottoms
CATFISH & KITTEN: A kitten explores the new Missouri State Record Blue Catfish caught by Greg Bernal of Florissant, Missouri on Tuesday, July 20. The fish weighed 130 pounds, making…
SCA Survivor Now Works To Bring AEDs To Public Buildings
THE GATEWAY CHAPTER OF THE SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST ASSOCIATION (SCAA) gathered recently at the Red Cross St. Louis headquarters. At lower right is Linda Dickson, a SCA survivor. The chapter…
Pond Tour Features 2 Florissant Area Homes
The St. Louis Water Gardening Society will hold its tenth annual Pond-O-Rama garden tour on June 26 and 27. This is the largest pond tour ever with 56 gardens open…
St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway Tickets on Sale June 17
St. Louis area residents may enter the inaugural St. Jude Dream Home Giveway with a chance to win a $525,000 house by purchasing a $100 ticket. Only 9,000 tickets for…
North County Churches United Presenting Awards
North County Churches Uniting for Racial Harmony and Justice (NCCU) will be celebrating its Sixth Annual Awards Dinner on Sunday, June 6, at 4 p.m. in the May Center of…
DeSmet Retirement Community Resident Celebrates 102 Birthday
GRACE MEYERKORD with her relatives at her 102nd birthday party at DeSmet Retirement Community. Grace Meyerkord celebrated her 102nd birthday on Tuesday, May 18 at DeSmet Retirement Community, her home…
Proponents Say Prop A For Metro Transit A Must Need For N. County
By Jay-Dee Bush Either way the vote goes, the proposed half-cent sales tax for St. Louis County’s metro transit system could mean some dramatic changes. The fate of MetroLink, Metrobus,…
Brian Williams Celebrates 20 Years Working at McDonalds
Brian Williams of Florrissant at work at the Howdershell McDonald's. He has worked there 20 years. (Special to the Independent News) Brian Williams, who has Downs Syndrome, is celebrating his 20th anniversary working at McDonalds at…
Book Regales Readers With Tales Of Missouri’s Catastrophic Weather
Show Me...Nature's Wrath New Book Regales Readers With Tales Of Missouri's Catastrophic Weather By Linda Briggs-Harty Call them twisters, cyclones or tornadoes (even shorten them to "naders") - by any name,…