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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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Hazelwood Residents Benefit from New Allied Contract Approved by City Council

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 The Hazelwood City Council  approved a new solid waste and recycling contract with Allied Waste Services which took effective on Nov. 1.  As part of this agreement, Allied began delivering…

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Hazelwood Firefighters among the 1st in Region To Commitment to Wearing Seat Belts On-Duty

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   The Hazelwood Fire Department has taken the lead by being among the first in St. Louis County to have all its firefighters pledge to wear seat belts when they…

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Black Jack City Clerk Receives Designation of Certified Municipal Clerk

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(Oct. 25, 2011) Karen Robinson, City Clerk of the City of Black Jack, has been awarded the designation of Certified Municipal Clerk. This certification is a combination of education and…

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West Volleyball Top Seed At McCluer

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 By Jim Wieners Hazelwood West Girls Volleyball is seeded first in Class Four, District Six at McCluer High School which is scheduled to begin Oct. 24. Actual dates and times…

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I’d Rather Watch the Series From Comfort of My Home

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By Randy Gardner Here we are as fans, watching the World Series with so much anxiousness we can hardly sit still, at least it is this way for me and…

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H’wood West Middle School Homework Center Expands Adding More Students

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   Eighth-grade Hazelwood West Middle School students work in the eighth-grade Homework Center after school. This is the second year the school has offered a place for students who need…

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Movie review: Footloose

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 Julianne Hough and Ken Wormald star in the newest version of Footloose, still a high-energy dance movie New 'Footloose' Takes Rousing Dance Scenes, Heartfelt Message to New Era By Maggie Scott…

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DeSmet Hosts Jesuit Rival SLUH In District Football, Stars Host Wildcats

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   By Jim Wieners Missouri has three Catholic-Jesuit all-boys high schools and two of them are in the St. Louis area. DeSmet, located in Creve Coeur off Interstate 270 and…

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Fourth-Graders Compare Data as Math Education at Armstrong Elementary

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     At Armstrong Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District, fourth-grade students Nadia Wojciechowski, Markus Ross and Elijah Thompson (holding ruler), work together to measure height for a math…

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The Best of Times Returning For Downtown Ferguson

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  By Tom Anselm “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” That opening line from Charles Dickens’s “Tale of Two Cities” could apply to the…

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