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

The Muny Will Receive the 2025 Regional Theatre Tony Award...

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Weekend shows for RIVERDANCE 30 Continue May 3 & 4

2025 RIVERDANCE 30 Graces The Fabulous Fox this weekend       ...

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Valley of Flowers weekend arrives!

The Valley of Flowers Festival is back and blooming brighter...

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Combs’ Christine Ries Named Outstanding Science Teacher

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Christine Ries, a fifth-grade teacher at Combs Elementary School in the Ferguson-Florissant School District, received the 2013 Outstanding Elementary School Science Teacher of Missouri award from the Science Teachers of…

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Girls Missing Since October 2nd Located Unharmed

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Since October 2nd, the Florissant Police Department has invested over 300 “man hours” in attempting to locate Dominique Cherry-Jones and D’Shay Knox, who ran away together. The Florissant Police Department…

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Jennings Senior High School Opens New Sports Complex

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A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held in celebration of Jennings Senior High School’s new sports complex, which includes a turf football field, an 8-lane track, upgrades to field equipment and a…

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County Health Department Urges all Residents to Get Flu Vaccinations

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Flu season has arrived and the Saint Louis County Department of Health is urging all residents six months of age and older be vaccinated against the seasonal flu. Even those…

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Hazelwood Senior R. J. Fentress Wins First Place in Statewide Video Contest

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R. J. Fentress, a senior at Hazelwood West High School, received first place, and a $1,000 cash prize, in the Missouri School Boards’ Association’s “2013 What’s Super About Public Schools”…

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Scenes from the Fall Festival

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Photos by Bob Lindsey and Karen McKay                    

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Food Trucks by the Old St. Ferdinand Shrine

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If you bring food trucks, they will come. Florissant residents came out in force for the Food Trucks in Florissant event at the Old St. Ferdinand Shrine. There were long…

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Rams Win Over Jags is 1st Step to Respectability

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By Randy Gardner Is it an extraordinary event when you win a game that you are expected to win? This would be the case for the St. Louis Rams. Yes,…

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Gravity: 3D Spectacle

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By Sandra Olmsted Director Alfonso Cuarón’s latest film, Gravity, marries a simple, straightforward narrative to evocative visual complexity and delivers a subtle mediation of grief in the midst of a…

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Wildcats, Titans Softball Teams Get District Top Seeds, Begin Thursday

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By Jim Wieners High School Softball District Tournaments got underway last Wednesday, Oct. 9, however, the Hazelwood West Wildcats and the Trinity Catholic Titans each got a bye as being…

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