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Cold Water School host Wellness Fair

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“The Heidi Chronicles” coming to town

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Tony Award for the Muny; New seasons Opens June 16 with “Bring It On”

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Lowery States City Is Financially Stable

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Florissant Mayor Robert Lowery and Director of Finance Randy McDaniel say the city is in "very good financial condition" and has a balanced budget. In a statement released this week,…

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Hazelwood Gets Grant For Phase II of Truman Park Trail

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A park improvement grant totaling $196,023 has been awarded to the City of Hazelwood by the Municipal Parks Grant Commission of St. Louis County. Hazelwood was one of 19 local…

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Neighbors Credit Union Collection Benefits Marygrove Angels

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Melissa Rakers, branch manager, delivers gifts for the Christmas Angels Program. During the recent holidays, Neighbors Credit Union’s New Halls Ferry branch collected money to provide holiday gifts for the…

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Movie review: ‘Revolutionary Road’

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BY MAGGIE SCOTT Director Sam Mendes offers a chilly portrait of a disintegrating marriage and its tormented young partners in "Revolutionary Road," a lacerating adaptation (Justin Haythe) of the Richard…

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Movie review: ‘Gran Torino’

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BY MAGGIE SCOTT He looks like a piece of beef jerky. He expresses displeasure with a low resolution snarl out of a perpetually sneering face. He prefers a firearm to…

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Torn Calf Means More Time Watching Football and Venting

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BY RANDY GARDNER For me, the start of 2009 hasn’t been a good one. I took a tumble on our stairs and partially tore my calf muscle. That’s the bad…

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City of Hazelwood Honors ‘Superintendent of the Year’

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Hazelwood Councilman Terry Salfen presented a City Proclamation to Supt. Chris Wright of the Hazelwood School District in recognition of the recent honor she received from the Missouri School Boards’…

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Incarnate Wins Visitation Basketball Tournament; 2-0 Versus Haz. Central

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BY JIM WIENERS Incarnate Word Academy has two things going into 2009 in Girls Basketball, winning the Academy of the Visitation Christmas Tournament for the fourth time in the last…

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Trinity, McCluer North Repeat Holiday Boys Basketball Tourney Titles

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BY JIM WIENERS Three weeks ago Trinity Catholic High School played the first of two holiday Boys Basketball Tournaments at Lutheran High-St. Charles County, not at home as a Dec.…

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Queen Candidates Sought For 2009 Valley of Flowers

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Applications are available for queen candidates for the Valley of Flowers Festival, May 1, 2 and 3, 2009. The parade theme this year is "Florissant Goes to the Movies." Candidates…

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