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Cold Water School host Wellness Fair

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“The Heidi Chronicles” coming to town

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Party on the Ice March 7 At Annual Skating Event

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The city of Florissant invites all 5th through 8th graders to the James J. Eagan Center Ice Rink on Friday, March 7 from 6:30 – 9 p.m. This annual event…

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Youth Hockey State Games at FCC

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The James J. Eagan Center will be host to the Missouri Youth Hockey state championship tournament games. These games will include teams from the Bantam B and Squirt Silver divisions. …

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Slow Melt

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It will take more days of warmer weather like this week to melt all  the ice on the Mississippi (and Missouri ) Rivers. This was  the view of Alton Monday…

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Is City-Council Re-marriage Possible After The Great Divorce? Better Together Hopes So

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A Boomer’s Journal By Tom Anselm It was a time just after the great bloodletting know as The Civil War that our region had it's own separation of sorts, though…

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Every Night Olympics Makes Us Prouder

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By Randy Gardner This could be about a 10-page column on how impressed I am with the way that the American Athletes are handling themselves in Sochi. Every time that…

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The Monuments Men: About Time

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By Sandra Olmsted Director George Clooney’s timely The Monument Men chronicles the real-life adventure of the American lead effort to save the cultural history of Europe as the Allied Forces…

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Spring Must Be Near, 4 More New Businesses Seek Florissant Approval

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Convenience Store, Party Center, Auto Garage, Caterer By Carol Arnett The cold weather may make it seem like spring is far, far away, but the last Florissant City Council showed…

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Ferguson-Florissant Sends 16 Wrestlers To State, the 3 Hazelwoods Sending 8

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By Jim Wieners Among the two school districts in the Florissant Valley area, both with three high schools, the Ferguson-Florissant School District has a two-to-one ratio of High School Wrestlers…

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Haz. West Swimmer Jessica Nichols Returns To State

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By Jim Wieners Hazelwood West sophomore Jessica Nichols is making her second trip to the St. Peters Rec-Plex for the Missouri State Girls Swimming and Diving Championships. Preliminaries are Friday…

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Cardinal Ritter Hoops Seeded First At Lutheran No., North Tech Third

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By Jim Wieners Cardinal Ritter College Prep, a midtown St. Louis Catholic High School, has both Boys and Girls Basketball Teams seeded first in the upcoming Class Three, District Five…

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