ALTON - Christine L. Brice Foundation, INC, will be hosting a Community Outreach/ Family Fun Day on April 9, 2022, featuring an Easter egg hunt for children ages 0-12 at Hellrung Park in Alton, IL from 1-4 pm. The goal of the Christine L. Brice Foundation, INC is to bring both fun and awareness to the families of our community. This event will have fun and games for the entire family. Christine L. Brice Foundation, INC will be partnering with several others in our community to make this day a success. Molina healthcare will be there to help educate and assist those in the community who are in need of health insurance. SIHF will be in attendance providing Covid-19 vaccines and boosters. Familia Dental will also be in attendance advising on keeping up with good oral hygiene. Representatives from the Riverbend Headstart Program will be in attendance as well. The mission of Christine L. Brice Foundation, INC is to work in collaboration with other organizations in order to alleviate the
GRANITE CITY – Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White has awarded more than $1.4 million in FY 22 School District Library Grant Program awards to 672 public school districts. More than 1.5 million Illinois students served by school library programs will benefit from the grants. From FY 22 appropriations approved by the General Assembly and the Governor, school library grants were awarded based on a formula of $.885 per student, with a minimum grant award of $850. Granite City Community Unit School District #9 was awarded $4,777.23. The School District Library Grant Program is used for: Fiction and/or non-fiction books Educational CDs and DVDs Library subscriptions Electronic resources New computers Wi-Fi connectivity improvements Information on the grant program can be found at: ilsos.gov/departments/library/grants/schoolpercapgrant.html .
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson began her four-day confirmation process to become the nation’s first Black female associate justice on Monday, listening to hours of opening statements …
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Missouri is hiring wildly successful Cleveland State coach Dennis Gates to help rebuild a long-floundering program that has churned through seven head and interim coaches since Norm Stewart prowled the sidelines in Columbia. The university's Board of Curators approved Gates' hiring on Tuesday. The 42-year-old Gates took over Cleveland State's program in [...]
Sports-focused educational technology startup Versus (VS) is a venture Marmol has launched with his wife, Amber, and two other co-founders with Cardinals ties.
Since 2015, Trailnet has worked alongside residents, elected officials, and organizations within the Jeff-Vander-Lou (JVL) neighborhood in North St. Louis to demonstrate and plan for several neighborhood improvements. Several improvements …
Last January DirecTV finally decided to kick fantasy and conspiracy channel One America News (OAN) off of their satellite TV lineup, likely dooming the “news” channel. It’s a channel relatively few people watch, and the company simply didn’t figure the controversy to income ratio was worth it, so DirecTV simply didn’t renew OAN’s carriage agreement […]
“Some people play golf or tennis, that’s their hobby. My hobby is business,” St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. That hobby has led to the creation of an educational technology startup that plans to launch its product next month. And Marmol isn't the only name behind the company that Cardinals fans will recognize.
After fending off a takeover bid early last year, building materials distributor Huttig Building Products has agreed to be acquired by an Idaho-based millwork company.
EMILY’s List, which raises money nationally for female, pro-abortion rights candidates, taps Mayor Tishaura O. Jones among 6 nominees for its annual ‘Gabrielle Giffords’ Rising Star Award.
The prospect of Eric Greitens capturing the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Missouri was already terrifying to his party’s leaders. He had been forced out of the governor’s office in 2018, resigning to settle felony charges and avoid impeachment by a Republican legislative supermajority. Yet despite all that, he’s consistently led in polls of […]