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Taylor & Brandy's Love Story

2 years 7 months ago
Couples names: Taylor & Brandy City: Brighton Date met or started dating: September 6, 2019 Date married: September 23, 2023 What makes your relationship special? Taylor and I met in 2019 after both of us were getting out of really bad relationships and just starting to find ourselves again. Little did we know, we were meeting the person we would spend our life. Down the road of our relationship, Taylor ended up having stage 3 kidney cancer. It was a situation we never thought we would be in but was a time for us to be strong not as individuals but as a couple. Times were very hard financially and mentally but it showed us both that we can get through anything together! Share a memory you have made together: Taylor and I absolutely love fishing. After bank fishing and going out in the boat with my dad year after year, we finally purchased a boat of our own. We took a trip to Table Rock Lake, took the boat out from sun up to sun down and had the best time. The lake

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Harry & Charley's Love Story

2 years 7 months ago
Couples names: Harry & Charley City: Alton Date met or started dating: April 13, 1998 Date married: October 3, 2015 What makes your relationship special? I truly believe what makes my relationship special is the way that my Charley loves and the way he has taken care of me and his love for me throughout the years and let me be me even though at times the me is a miserable grouchy irritable old man and I was even that way when I was young there are other words for but since we're in a public forum I won't use them LOL. When I had met him that day I had no idea what was going to happen and that we'd be together 25 years almost later I was on a one-way Road to Hell myself I was into a lot of bad things a lot of self-destructive Behavior and being with him kind of changed all that I found myself wanting to change because of him to become a better person because of him and he believed in me and loved me throughout all of it. his making me a step parent we have helped raise

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Chris & Katie's Love Story

2 years 7 months ago
Couples names: Chris & Katie City: Alton Date met or started dating: March 11, 2001 Date married: November 8, 2002 What makes your relationship special? We are true partners. We are the best of friends. We bring out the best in one another. We truly want to be together and make our relationship better. Share a memory you have made together: We have shared so many memories together in this life we have created. The last 5 years have been the most memorable for us. We have been raising our 2 nieces and nephew. Seeing life through the innocent eyes of children have changed our outlook on everything we believed and knew before. The adventures we have had and plan on having have made our relationship stronger than I have ever imagined.

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Ann & Joe's Love Story

2 years 7 months ago
Couples names: Ann & Joe City: Jerseyville Date met or started dating: October 25, 2008 What makes your relationship special? What makes our relationship special is our ability to make it work in any situation. We tolerate each other and support each other even in our worst moments. It’s not always easy, but we are resilient in our love for each other. Share a memory you have made together: A memory we’ve made together was climbing Sky Pond located at Glacier Gorge in the Rocky Mountain National Park! It was a huge accomplishment for us both!! Definitely a feel good moment to hit the top together!

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Samy & Ryan's Love Story

2 years 7 months ago
Couples names: Samy & Ryan City: Wood River Date met or started dating: October 7, 2017 What makes your relationship special? Best buds for life. We were friends before we become partners for life. Share a memory you have made together: Waking up every day at 4 or 5 in the morning to walk to the smoke spot at job core just to see you! And I would do it all over again.

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Dillon & Mariah's Love Story

2 years 7 months ago
Couples names: Dillon & Mariah City: Alton Date met or started dating: March 20, 2016 What makes your relationship special? Even though we've been together almost 6 years, were still best friends. We have also never second guess about one another! Share a memory you have made together: Our greatest memories are when our 3 children were born!

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Sarah & Dyllian's Love Story

2 years 7 months ago
Couples names: Sarah & Dyllian City: Wood River Date met or started dating: April 7, 2018 What makes your relationship special? We met in high school. I moved away to Indiana after freshman year. I moved back in 2017, we reconnected, and now have a beautiful family with 3 kids. Share a memory you have made together: We love a good St. Louis Blues hockey game! We’ve made very good family memories taking the kids to games.

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Missouri Got High as Hell and Spent $12.7 Million on Weed Last Weekend

2 years 7 months ago
Recreational marijuana went legal on Friday, February 3, and stoners and wannabe stoners across the state wasted no time in going to their local dispensary to buy weed. According to MoCannTrade, Missouri sold $12,689,965 worth of product from Friday to Sunday. [content-1] On Friday alone, Missouri sold more than $5 million worth of cannabis.
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Ashlie & Leah's Love Story

2 years 7 months ago
Couples names: Ashlie & Leah City: Jerseyville Date met or started dating: April 4, 2021 What makes your relationship special? We met in Florida 2019 and quickly became best friends. Remained best friends for 2 years until Ashlie had to move back to Illinois after covid. Then Leah realized she was falling in love, told Ashlie, and the rest is beautiful history. Share a memory you have made together: Our favorite (so far) would have to be traveling to Colorado together for the 1st time last year for Leahs birthday and a blizzard hit while we were there. So our flight got canceled and we got to stay a few more days.

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County Approves Restaurant, Rec Facility at Lucky Dog Farm

2 years 7 months ago
From Mid Rivers News Magazine:  At its Jan. 30 meeting, the St. Charles County Council approved three bills, each by a vote of 7-0, to authorize conditional use permits (CUPs) for items related to the property at 1501 Wilmer Road. The property is owned by Craig, Ryan P. and Darlene Smith and known as Lucky […]
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How Business Owners Can Benefit From a Hands-On Financial Approach

2 years 7 months ago
From Construction Business Owner: To build a profitable construction business, owners must be focused on key performance indicators (KPIs) and bottom-line numbers. These KPIs are centered on sales revenue, overhead, profit markup, labor costs per unit of work, and your updated job cost labor for every project. You can’t expect anyone to care about your finances […]
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Myles & Angie Hayes' Love Story

2 years 7 months ago
Couples names: Myles & Angie Hayes City: St. Charles, Mo Date met or started dating: February 16, 2002 Date married: October 9, 2004 What makes your relationship special? The last couple years, Angie was diagnosed with breast cancer, had surgeries, chemo and radiation. We’ve come through each hardship stronger than we started. We lean on each other, God, and all our family to get through rough times. Share a memory you have made together: The births of our two kids. Kennedy was born 06/21/2006, and Ryan was born 12/18/2010. We are definitely blessed with all the people we have in our lives!

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Ashley & Aaron Connors' Love Story

2 years 7 months ago
Couples names: Ashley & Aaron Connors City: Godfrey Date met or started dating: April 3, 2013 Date married: August 29, 2020 What makes your relationship special? High school sweethearts through & through! Met in the hallways of Alton High, flirting by our lockers & haven’t been apart since! We both have grown as individuals while always staying at each other sides! Every obstacle life has, we overcome it. Truly if it’s you see me, you see him & vice versa. Blessed to know true love so young. Share a memory you have made together: So many too count. From watching each other walk the stage, choosing & finding our careers, vacations, tragedy, his proposal in DisneyWorld, our two weddings (one small & intimate due to Covid, to our big celebration), buying our home, pool parties with our family & friends, adopting our many fur children. So many worth bringing up.

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Millennium Construction May Get Route 66 Project

2 years 7 months ago
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer:  Millennium Construction may get the go-ahead to build the the Route 66 Interpretive Center in Edwardsville after the administrative and community service (ACS) committee voted 3-0 Thursday to approve the company’s lowest bid of $378,900 for the project. Other submitted bids included Stutz Excavating at $406,012 and Berco Construction at $485,464. Pfund Construction […]
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Zachary & Stacy's Love Story

2 years 7 months ago
Couples names: Zachary & Stacy City: Godfrey Date met or started dating: August 3, 2017 Date married: February 23, 2018 What makes your relationship special? What makes our relationship so special is that he found me when I was at my lowest and he made me who I am today. The happiest I’ve been. Share a memory you have made together: The day we got married. It wasn’t the wedding we wanted but we were both ok for not spending a lot on a wedding. We just wanted to spend the rest of our lives together.

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Stephanie & Zachary's Love Story

2 years 7 months ago
Couples names: Stephanie & Zachary City: East Alton Date met or started dating: July 6, 2014 Date married: October 17, 2020 What makes your relationship special? We are each other’s best friend. Share a memory you have made together: When Zach and I first started dating he lived in Springfield, Illinois and I in Wood River, Illinois. One time I planned to take the Amtrak to see him, I ended up missing my train and there were no more schedule to go that day. That didn’t stop us from seeing each other. Zach took a chance with his beat up, one head lighted intrepid and came and picked my up. Our relationship has continued to defy all odds and it may be us against the world but we are sure that with each other and our love for one another we can conquer what ever obstacles may come.

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Old Courthouse Will Honor Scott Family in New Exhibits

2 years 7 months ago
From the St. Louis American: A groundbreaking ceremony was held last week, and among the historic building’s improvements, will be new exhibit galleries that focus on Dred and Harriett Scott’s legal fight for freedom. Exhibits will examine how their cases, both state and federal, still impact America today. Other topics will include the post-Civil War era […]
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Kevin & Kris Blumenberg's Love Story

2 years 7 months ago
Couples names: Kevin & Kris Blumenberg City: Hardin Date met or started dating: March 17, 1984 Date married: September 23, 1989 What makes your relationship special? He’s type A and I’m type B. Complete opposite personalities but we compliment each other. Share a memory you have made together: Our 30 year anniversary trip. We went on a road trip with no reservations or plans. We ended up in Tunica - Memphis - Lynchburg TN and ended in Nashville. A week of open roads and so many memories.

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