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St. Louis Zoo Reopened Monday

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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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Thursday, July 30    Blood Pressure Clinic at St. Catherine Retirement Community, 3350 St. Catherine Street, at 10:15 a.m. RSVP at 314-838-3877.    Healing prayer service at Sacred Heart Catholic Church,…

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Road Rally Fundraiser For TEAM Food Pantry

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   TEAM Food Pantry is seeking Road Rally participants, volunteers and sponsors to support their first Road Rally and Fill the Truck fundraiser. Participants in the Road Rally will leave…

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High School Sports ’15-16 Practices Begin on Aug. 3

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 By Jim Wieners High School Sports for the 2015-16 school year begins Monday, Aug. 3, with the first day of fall practices and end Saturday, June 4, 2016, with state…

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Hazelwood Central Grad Leads Johns Hopkins Physics Team

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Lisa Blodgett will lead the Applied Physics Laboratory force projection sector at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Blodgett, a Florissant native and graduate of Hazelwood Central High School, was formerly…

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St. Louis County One of Worst For Heroin Use For Lots of Reasons

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Interstate highways are a major factor By Tom Anselm The greater St. Louis region has a heroin problem. It began in earnest in the early 2000s and seems to be…

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August Ferguson CityWalk 501 Concerts Liven Up the Plaza

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   Two free concerts in the 2015 Ferguson CityWalk series are scheduled for the second and fourth Fridays of August from 7 to 9 p.m. Both will be held at…

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Florissant Residents, Police Join in 2015 National Night Out Aug. 4

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The 31st annual National Night Out (NNO) will be Tuesday, Aug. 4. NNO is designed to: Increase crime and drug prevention awareness Raise support for and participation in local anti-crime…

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Florissant Council Has Lots of Questions About Catering/Day-Care Plans

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   By Tom Anselm The Florissant City Council had just one public hearing on the agenda at Monday night’s meeting. However, the discussion that ensued dominated the evening’s discourse. Continued…

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Boys State Soccer Returns To St. Louis

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By Jim Wieners After four years of playing in Blue Springs, a Suburb of Kansas City, the Missouri State High School Activties Association is reportedly returning the state Boys Soccer…

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Ferguson’s Holds ‘Day of Hope’ event

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   Hundreds of bags of food were piled high and each family in need got a bag full at the Ferguson ‘Day of Hope event Saturday, July 25 at Ferguson’s Forestwood…

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