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Army Corps of Engineers Holding Town Hall on Radiation Findings at Jana School New information from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding their testing at Jana Elementary was scheduled to be heard Tuesday night (Nov. 15) at the Hazelwood School Board meeting. (Prior to The Independent News print deadline.) USACE will also hold a […]

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Florissant Performing Arts Center Presents Hawthorne Player’s 75th Anniversary Finale          by Pat Lindsey The Hawthorne Players is currently presenting its final main show of its 75th season with the award-winning play, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” It’s an excellent choice to showcase the recently renamed Florissant Performing Arts Center’s new […]

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Corps of Engineers Continue to Sample Soil Around Jana School The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District mobilized contractor, Leidos, was still sampling both inside and outside Jana Elementary School in Florissant over the weekend and into this week. See picture. “We are in the process of collecting samples throughout the entire property […]

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Florissant OKs Cooking Area For Restaurant; Denies Liquor License to Lounge By Carol Arnett The Florissant City Council met for the second October meeting recently in council chambers and issued three proclamations at the meeting. The first declared the city a Purple Heart City.  The second was for domestic violence awareness, and the third for […]

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Hazelwood School District Bond Issue Gets Endorsement from GNC Chamber The Greater North County Chamber endorses Hazelwood School District Proposition H (Prop H) initiative on the Nov. 8 2022 ballot. The bond issue if approved would: fund safety and security improvements; updates and renovations to athletic/activity facilities; classroom technology and network upgrades; purchase new school […]

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The Dining Divas Roll the Dice with A New Restaurant…. It Paid Off By Lisa Kampeter    It was a lucky guess on where to go for this month’s Dining Divas. Usually we go with recommendations from people, but as we struggled to agree on a place, I decided to let google come through for […]

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Florissant Truck or Treat Locations for 2022 Florissant Elks 2316 annual Trunk-or-Treat, 16400 New Halls Ferry Rd., will happen on Oct. 29 at 5 p.m. Cross Keys Baptist Church Trunk-orTreat, 14255 New Halls Ferry Rd., will happen on Oct. 22 at 2 p.m. Saint Andrew United Methodist Church, 3975 US-67 (in Old Jamestown) will hold […]

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Jane School To Close After New Report of Radioactive Contamination   The Hazelwood School District announced Tuesday night at its board meeting that Jana Elementary School will close. Students will switch to virtual learning for the remainder of the current semester Remote learning will start on Oct. 24. The decision was announced following a report stating […]

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                    Florissant City Budget For 2023 at $43 Million; $17.1  Million in Reserve     By Carol Arnett The Florissant City Council’s first October meeting (Oct. 10) was a short one, but the council did issue a proclamation and hold a public hearing. On the 2023 city budget The Council issued a proclamation for Hispanic Heritage […]

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  Many New events planned at  Florissant Fall Festival Oct. 9 October means cooler weather, falling leaves, pumpkins and apples, and famous fall events— none better than the Florissant Old Town Fall Festival, which annually draws over 30,000 people every year’s second Sunday of October. This year the city will celebrate its 25th year of […]

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Going “Off the Menu” Brought the Most Joy to the Dining Divas   By Lisa Kampeter I really am surprised we got into the latest Dining Divas spot. It’s a restaurant that had been on our list for a while as it had been requested many times, but we’d been turned down before by them. […]

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The Fabulous Fox Opens Its Season With the Life Story of the Temptations by Pat Lindsey    Ain’t Too Proud–The Life and Times of the Temptations is the season opener at The Fabulous Fox this week. It covers 62 years of the chart-topping quintet’s musical history from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & […]

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‘Lighthouse Landing’ Planned 1.5 Miles From Zoo’s Wildlife Park By Bob Lindsey If You Build It They Will Come. That’s certainly what the St. Louis Zoo Wildlife Park is expecting when the metro’s largest new attraction opens in a few years. Leaders in St. Louis and North County are anticipating more new attractions and venues […]

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The Ascension Charity Classic:  Perfect Name For This Golf Event    By Tom Anselm It was 21 years ago on September 11 that men filled with hatred for America mercilessly murdered nearly 3000 innocent people in New York City, Pennsylvania and Virginia. They were also attempting to kill the spirit of America. They failed. America […]

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A Chorus Line is STAGES’s Sensational Grand Finale by Pat Lindsey STAGES has chosen a timeless musical about acceptance and rejection as the final production of a highly emotional theatrical season. It peeks into the lives of 17 dancers and exposes truths from their pasts that caused shock waves in 1975. Touted by critics as […]

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I-270 Project Announces 2 Dunn Road Closures that will Continue for 60 Days Drivers who regularly use Dunn Road along I-270 should be aware that the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) will close eastbound Dunn Road from Hanley Road to Interstate 170 beginning at 5 a.m. Sept. 19. This closure will be for 60 days. […]

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Things Start Getting Serious with The Pros At Practice Tee at Ascension Charity Classic   BY TOM ANSELM Getting out to the course  Friday , I was interested in seeing the guys who make up the PGA TOUR Champions. My best bet was to hang out at the practice putting green and the first tee. […]

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  First Day at Ascension Charity Classic Highlights Including Seeing John Daly  Play    BY TOM ANSELM   ‘Hello, again, everybody,’ to borrow a greeting by the late great baseball announcer of the Cardinals, Cubs and White Sox, Harry Caray. But let’s talk golf. I went to Norwood Hills Country Club on Wednesday to pick […]

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Page Announces 1.7 Mile Airport Road Improvement Project St. Louis County Executive Dr. Sam Page was joined by Missouri state Representative Raychel Proudie and Berkeley Mayor Babatunde Deinbore this week to announce $5.4million road improvement project along Airport Road. This project will remove and replace 1.7 miles of Airport Road from I-170 east to N. […]

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