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The 154-year-old South City Hospital, formerly known as St. Alexius, said it will start the process of closing the hospital on Friday.

Ulysses Grant, the celebrated Union Army general who would become U.S. president, spent many years living and working on land which has since become Grant’s Farm.

From Wired:  Next time you find yourself in a new-ish US office building, scan the walls visible from the entryway. Within seconds, you are almost guaranteed to find a glittering circular plaque embossed with a leaf. It’ll be topped with the words LEED Platinum—or sometimes Gold, Silver, or just Certified. In the late ’90s and […]

The city invested in culturally important sites and neighborhoods.

A pair of local business owners are planning a new 13-acre soccer field development in St. Charles County, with hopes of providing more fields for independent soccer teams in the region.

For reasons best left unexplored, I got curious about long-term suicide rates last night and ended up going down a rabbit hole. What I discovered is that everyone is doing it wrong. Most of the charts you see are based on reports written decades ago plus CDC figures for the past couple of decades. The ...continue reading "Raw data: US suicide rates since 1900"

Both bills were passed out of the Board of Aldermen and sent to the mayor’s desk following feedback from SLMPD Chief Robert J. Tracy.

From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:  The great-great-granddaughter of the settler whose property is involved in a major development dispute in St. Charles County claims the people already living around the site ruined it for her and her family. Residents of the subdivisions surrounding a proposed 452-home development along Hwy. DD and bordered by the August A. […]

Kick off your weekend at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park! Each Thursday Night at the Museum will be the most fun, engaging, uplifting, thought-provoking, perspective-shaping night of your

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The Emergency Operations team opened its center on Wednesday under a partial Level 2 activation. This was in anticipation of heavy flooding that was expected to affect certain areas of the St. Louis region.

ALTON - A Pet Food Drive this Saturday honors the memory of a late Alton teen. A local nonprofit, Trinity’s Way, is hosting a pet food drive from 10 a.m. to noon on Sunday, Aug. 6, at Piasa Park in Alton. The drive will benefit the pet food pantry operated by Metro East Humane Society. This pantry program provides free pet food to eligible applicants who are in need of assistance. Trinity’s Way was formed in 2018 after 17-year-old Trinity Buel was killed in a car accident on Feb. 17, 2018. The nonprofit was started by her mother, April Gray, and her godfather, Chris Unthank, to carry on Buel’s kindness and compassion for animals and the environment. The pet food drive is a fitting way to honor Buel’s memory for her birthday on Aug. 6. “When Trinity was a little girl, instead of presents for herself, she’d ask for pet food and supplies for her birthday so that she could donate those to local animal shelters,” Gray said. “She was always

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From Webster-Kirkwood Times:  In a deep, corner lot off Key West Avenue and Kuhlman Lane, yellow daylilies and pink roses are blooming, and elephant ears provide a vibrant green backdrop — standing in stark contrast to a vacant home that was condemned there after last summer’s historic flooding in Webster Groves. A year later, homeowner […]

The Illinois girl has died after a starting gate being hauled by a car prior to a harness race struck her while she was sitting in the grandstand at a county fair.

GODFREY – Lewis and Clark Community College is meeting the changes and challenges in the growing real estate field by offering classes to help individuals enter that career field as brokers. An individual must pass a total of 75 hours of instruction to take the Real Estate Broker’s licensure exam. Lewis and Clark is offering three different classes of Real Estate, all of which are needed for the exam: Real Estate Brokerage (REAL 135-A6) – 7-9:40 p.m., Mondays and Wednesdays, Aug. 21 – Oct. 11, 2023 Real Estate Transactions (Two sections available) (REAL 136 - 01) – 9:25-10:40 a.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays, Aug. 22 – Dec. 14, 2023, OR (REAL 136 – B6) ­– 7-9:40 p.m., Mondays and Wednesdays, Oct. 16 - Dec. 13, 2023. Real Estate Transaction Applications (REAL 137 - 60) – 6-9:30 p.m., Tuesdays, Nov. 21 – Dec. 12, 2023. All three classes are in-person or online on the Godfrey Campus and will be taught by local

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ST. LOUIS - A St. Louis man appeared in federal court on Thursday to be sentenced for repeatedly cyberstalking, harassing, and threatening to rape multiple women in the area and elsewhere in the country. Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri said Robert Merkle, 54, pleaded guilty in March to five [...]

GODFREY - As a courtesy, the Village of Godfrey is now providing a drop-off location for yard waste for Godfrey residents. The site, located at 1433 Stamper Lane, will be open and accepting yard waste on Tuesdays and Saturdays beginning August 8 from 9 a.m.–noon. Located to the west of Glazebrook Park, residents can enter the fenced area where an employee will then verify residency and assist in unloading the bagged yard waste from the vehicle before proceeding around the circular drive and exiting back onto Stamper Lane. All yard waste (leaves, grass clippings, foliage, small branches, etc.) must be bagged in brown recyclable yard waste bags found at area hardware stores. Village of Godfrey yard waste stickers must be applied to each bag. These stickers are available for purchase for $1.75 at St. Peter’s Hardware in Alton and at Godfrey Village Hall in the Clerk’s office. There is no limit to the number of bags that can be dropped off. No unbagged items will be

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