ALTON - Great Rivers and Routes Tourism Bureau President and CEO Cory Jobe gave Alton residents an update on the organization’s future tourism plans for the Riverbend, stressing the importance of the area’s riverfront to seize tourism opportunities from incoming cruise ships. “American Queen Voyages this year decided to pull all of their 2022 scheduled boats out of downtown St. Louis to more small, rural communities up and down the river, and we’re taking on about 95 percent of those cruise stops here in Alton and Grafton,” Jobe said. “We are welcoming over 60 cruise ships this summer alone to the Riverbend area.” Jobe continued with “some other good news,” highlighting a $10 million grant to improve different tourism experiences around the area. “We were recently awarded a $10 million capital grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity through Governor J.B. Pritzker,” Jobe said. “$8.25
Clayton officials are considering next steps after health care giant Centene (NYSE: CNC) officially terminated the remainder of its deal to expand its headquarters in the city, foregoing future tax breaks that required the construction of a public auditorium.
Rawlings Sporting Goods Co. prides itself on being the official provider of gloves to Major League Baseball. The Town & Country-based manufacturer of sports equipment is now using its baseball gloves to expand into a new type of product: non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.
One of the St. Louis region's largest health care systems named a Baltimore health care executive as the next president of one of its St. Charles County hospitals.
You might recall that John Oliver bit years ago about how Americans fall asleep when they hear the word “infrastructure.” We’ll obsess for hours over Elon Musk showmanship, or the innovative potential of NFTs, but the U.S. press in particular falls into a lazy stupor any time actual, essential infrastructure is mentioned. It’s a problem […]
The startup, Chesterfield-based Micron Pure, says it's currently renovating a 25,00-square-foot facility in Fenton that offers it research and development capabilities to rapidly design and test new technologies to expand its product portfolio.
If a dispute over retirement benefits isn't resolved, nearly 2,500 union workers at the aerospace giant's St. Louis operations could go on strike as soon as Monday. Here's what's at the root of the issue.
Here is Hilbert sprawled across the newspaper this morning as Marian is attempting to solve her puzzles. In the background, Charlie is waiting for a chance to pounce.
A limited-edition vinyl reissue of David Bowie's 1977 album "Heroes" will drop on October 14 in celebration of its 45th anniversary. Pressed on gray vinyl, the reissue will only be available…
Grass is too wet to watch "The Sandlot" on Art Hill tonight. "The Sandlot" and "A League of Their Own" (previously canceled due to weather) have been rescheduled to be shown indoors.
GODFREY - When Cathy Keller visited the ribbon cutting for OSF Moeller Cancer Center in 2019, she had no idea she’d be using the services two years later. Now, the 66-year-old Godfrey resident is telling other breast cancer patients: you can get through it, too. “You have to roll with the punches,” Keller says. The numbers Heather Chambers is a breast health navigator at Moeller Cancer Center and was with Keller from the beginning. She, too, is a breast cancer survivor. Chambers says one in eight women will develop breast cancer. Older people are at a higher risk than younger, but younger people typically have more aggressive cancer. “A huge, huge problem,” as Chambers puts it. Chambers explains that woman make hormones, especially estrogen, all their life. “A lot of the hormones in body are like a fuel to a cancer cell,” Chambers explains. “When you get an abnormal cell, estrogen in our bodies fuels that cell and produces
ST. LOUIS – Blues for Kids, the charitable trust of the St. Louis Blues, has launched a 50/50 raffle and online auction to support the United Way Flood Relief Fund. Raffle tickets are on sale now through Friday, Aug. 5 at 6 p.m. and can be purchased by going to stlouisblues.com/5050 . Tickets are 314 for $90, 125 for $50, 50 for $25, 10 for $10, or 3 for $5. Fans are encouraged to purchase their tickets early for a chance to win early bird prizes that will be drawn throughout the duration of the raffle. Early bird prize winners remain eligible to win the grand prize of 50 percent of the pot. Early bird prizes include a Niko Mikkola autographed game-used stick, an Alexey Toropchenko autographed game-used gloves, and a Vladimir Tarasenko autographed game-used stick. All participants must be 18 years of age or older to play and must be located in Missouri or Illinois at the time of purchase. Winning raffle number will be announced online at stlouisblues.com and on Blues Social
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