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ALTON - Sarah Jones loves to celebrate her students. Jones is a special education teacher for the fifth grade at East Elementary School in the Alton Community Unit School District #11. This Teacher Appreciation Week, the district is taking a moment to turn the tables and celebrate her for the difference she makes in kids’ lives every day. “I decided to become a special education teacher because I wanted to make a meaningful difference for students who learn differently,”

ALTON - Sarah Boyd has always loved working with kids, so education was a natural pathway for her. Boyd teaches at North Elementary School in the Alton Community Unit School District #11. This Teacher Appreciation Week, she is thankful for the opportunity to engage with students and help them grow. “I love watching kids learn!” she said. “There is something rewarding about knowing that, as a teacher, you touch kids’ lives in ways beyond what you teach in class. I lov

HIGHLAND - St. Paul Catholic School in Highland recently hosted their annual Baseball Day to build the school’s sense of community. Abbey McGinley, a kindergarten teacher, explained that she did a Baseball Day at her previous school and decided to bring the tradition to St. Paul. The eighth grade students played baseball against the teachers while younger students provided entertainment between innings. “What kid doesn't love the Cardinals?” McGinley said. “It’s

A festival can make strangers hug, sing in the street, and spend money on things they would never buy on a normal Tuesday. That’s a strange power for something that often boils down to food, music, lights, and a shared calendar date. Festivals aren’t just “fun events.” They scratch several deep human itches at once: the need to belong, the need for meaning, the need for a break, and the need to feel something together. When you look closely, it becomes easier to see wh

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“These contracts are designed to fail,” one attorney says. “It’s abusive and predatory.”

Strowger 11 Digit Dial Phone (circa 1907) Kellogg Model 925 Monophone (circa 1930s) Stromberg Carlson Model 1191 Fatboy 8 Button Intercom (circa 1930s) Western Electric 302 Multi-Line Rotary Phone (circa […]

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The geometric and glowing art of HYBYCOZO is coming to St. Louis this spring and summer, on display for daytime visitors of the Missouri Botanical Garden and during special illuminated […]

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The National Museum of Transportation is proud to announce a special exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of historic Route 66. Titled “Roads, River, Rooms, and Reels,” the exhibit will open […]

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On May 6, 1954, a simple but powerful message traveled between two computers, helping to prove that machines could “talk” to each other over a shared network. That day, researchers successfully demonstrated packet switching in a way that pointed toward a new kind of communication system—one built to move information efficiently, even when lines were busy or parts of the network failed. At the time, this mattered because governments, universities, and laboratories were looking

A North Carolina nonprofit is taking on “forever chemicals” in rural communities.

Devin Daugherty, 20, of Moline Acres, was identified by police and arrested Monday morning in connection to Friday's night crash.

The High Low Gallery presents a new exhibition, Night Comfort, featuring works by St. Louis artist Jeremy Rabus, opening Friday, March 27 and running through Sunday, June 14. Night Comfort explores nostalgia through […]

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Last week the Trump FCC quietly announced that it was cooking up a new ban on any labs that have testing offices in China from testing electronic ‌devices such as smartphones, cameras and computers for sale in the United States. That’s going to create some major issues given that roughly 75% of all U.S.-bound electronics […]

A bill to prohibit low-flying drones over power plants, pipelines and other infrastructure transformed into wide-ranging public safety legislation Tuesday as the Missouri House added 47 amendments over nearly three and half hours. As the debate wore on, the bill became loaded with proposals ranging from a domestic violence registry to expanded DNA testing after […]