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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

3 years 3 months ago
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That Anonymous Coward with a comment about religious rules, regulations, and exemptions: I enjoy how their deeply held beliefs can never ever be questioned, because that would be a burden on them and open a can of worms… Like when Hobby Lobby was screaming […]
Leigh Beadon

The Flats at Forest Park, 490 N Kingshighway Making Progress

3 years 3 months ago

There are some signs of progress for The Flats at Forest Park, a $35M, 119-unit high-end apartment building by Pier Property Group of Steelcote fame. A $300k building permit application was submitted for interior selective demo for the building at 490 N Kingshighway at McPherson, formerly Reliance Automotive, in the Central West End neighborhood. Also, […]

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Richard Bose

Alton Pride Festival Creates Unity, Draws Large Crowds On Belle Street

3 years 3 months ago
ALTON - The Alton Pride Festival showed strong unity and drew large crowds with entertainment from noon to 9:30 p.m. Saturday on Belle Street in Alton. Bubby’s and Sissy’s on Belle was a catalyst for the event. Michael Paynic, the owner of Bubby’s and Sissy’s, said this was the first Pride event and the turnout was “amazing.” “It is very overwhelming,” he said while the band Porch Cafe was performing. “We had a wide variety of vendors and great food. “We even have an amazing Kid Zone. We have a great board on Alton Pride and we have worked very hard the past nine months to pull this off. We started in 2019 and were going to have a festival in 2020, but the COVID Pandemic occurred. We started again about nine months ago and had to cram to get it all together. "Ultimately we would like to provide a safe haven for youth or anyone not accepted by family and friends as a place to go. The City of Alton, the mayor, the police

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