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The start of the school year is heating up in the wrong way at several high schools across the Metro East. The problems come amid this week’s triple-digit temperatures.

According to the MSHSAA, a heat index between 95° and 105° means practices should be altered.

The city of Collinsville recognized four city employees during Tuesday’s city council meeting. The workers earned apprenticeship certificates from the U.S. Department of Labor for their efforts.

Adam Wainwright remained stuck on 198 career wins a day after accruing his 18th year of major league service time. He is 0-8 with a 12.56 ERA in nine starts since his last victory on June 17 against the New York Mets.

Writing as much as I do about trademark disputes and, more specifically, lawsuits, these are always the most frustrating ways for these disputes to end. I will spend some time examining a dispute, analyzing the merits on both sides, only to find that the suit is settled without any of the pertinent details of the […]

St. Louis County police are investigating an alleged assault at Jennings City Hall that occurred before an emergency city council meeting last week.

An organization representing 24 north St. Louis County municipalities has announced a new initiative to take on crime on several fronts.

This idea seeks not to uproot every shred of living carpet - "just" the (humongous, sterile, resource-intensive) areas we don't use.

         Owen Wormser is an ecological landscape designer who sees restorative potential in our acres of compulsive turf. His Nautilus Award-winning book's practical and visionary approach to ecological restoration can bring your place to life! Converting areas of lawn to meadows gives us back precious time and money while super-charging food webs and vital pollinator supports. 

      

Here in the KDHX listening area, the very tidy suburb of Webster Groves made it through No Mow April with reputation intact. Look for other local communities to adapt Webster's process in the early growing season of 2024. In May you can mow some paths through those plantings, and sow more life in the areas spared from tortuous trims. 

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THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, to KDHX Production chief Jon Valley.

Twenty districts across Missouri received an 'innovation waiver' from the Missouri State Board of Education to develop new ways to measure student success.

“Many teams have access to a physician if we need them on call to come in and do things if we’ve got an extreme situation,” De Smet head coach John Merritt said.

A 98-year-old Pekin native who served in World War II, helping liberate France from German occupation, was recognized with the French Legion of Honor today at Preston-Hanley funeral home.

From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:  The St. Charles County Family Arena at 2002 Arena Parkway is showing its age. At 24, it has been heavily used and is in need of renovations to its seating, roof and parking lots. Those improvements will total $4.3 million but cost county taxpayers nothing. Seating in the arena includes a […]

From Wall Street Journal:  A growing cadre of tech companies are stepping up to address a massive problem hiding in plain sight: the aging of trillions of dollars’ worth of bridges, tunnels and factories across the U.S. Our nation’s most critical infrastructure—from pipelines and industrial plants to ships and suspension bridges—is slowly going to pieces, […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  Construction has begun on the $61 million Advanced Manufacturing Center on the Florissant Valley campus of St. Louis Community College that officials say will prepare students to excel in the high-tech skills required to make various products. Students will receive hands-on training in state-of-the-art labs, preparing them for careers in […]

From Edwardsville Intelligencer:  Construction is the next step for two Meridian Plaza projects that received approval Aug. 15 at the village’s latest planning and zoning forum. Heartland Dental, the second known tenant in the mixed-use project after the Shuckin’ Shack Oyster Bar, and a pair of buildings that have no publicly known users, can soon […]