City’s Block Grant Evaluation Comment Period Ends March 14

   The   15-day comment period regarding Florissant’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) for FY 2017 will end at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March…

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North County Inc. Seeks Nominations For Annual Community Leader Awards

   North County Inc. (NCI) will host its 41st Annual Leadership Breakfast, 7:30 a.m., Friday, May 18 at the Marriott St. Louis Airport and is seeking nominations for exemplary business,…

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Sports Complex decision soon

St. Louis Outlet Mall Site in Line For Nation’s Largest Sports Complex   BIG SPORTS’ POWERplex artist rendering of the landscape for a new outdoor/indoor sports complex, which when completed,…

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A BOOMER’S JOURNAL: When Will This Crazy Killing End?

by Tom Anselm “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”…

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Hazelwood School District Addresses School Safety

In light of the tragedy in Florida, the Hazelwood School District continues to take proactive measures to ensure the safety of students and staff. Teachers, staff, and students in the…

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The Windy Zeitgeist of Oscar Picking

by Sandra Olmsted Predicting the Oscars is like throwing darts into the future without any inkling of how the winds of zeitgeist will be blowing by the final day that…

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‘Early Man’: A Wooly Mammoth of a Tale

by Sandra Olmsted In Early Man, director Nick Park and Aardman Animations, the creators of the Wallace and Gromit films among other stop-motion features, strut their stuff in a creation…

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Hazelwood Central Basketball Gets Top Boys, Girls Seeds at McCluer No.

By Jim Wieners Hazelwood Central Boys and Girls Basketball teams are top seeds in the Class Five, District Two Tournaments at McCluer North High School, which opens Saturday, Feb. 24…

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IWA Swimmer Wins 2 State Titles; Basketball Seeks Record Ninth

By Jim Wieners Incarnate Word Academy, an all-Girls high school, has a history of state team championships, beginning with Volleyball, followed by Soccer and, currently, with Basketball. Individual State titles,…

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Olympic Speeds and Stunts Always Impress the World

by Randy Gardner I wish the Olympics happened more than once every four years, actually they do if you count the alternate 2- year cycle of the winter and summer…

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