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JERSEYVILLE - A splash pad is officially coming to Lions Club Park in Jerseyville following unanimous City Council approval of a proposal from Water Odyssey for splash pad features/controllers/equipment. This is the latest in a series of improvements planned for Phase 2 of the Lions Club Park Improvements Project. Tyler Hermens, director of the Jerseyville Parks and Recreation Department, said at the meeting that “there’s a lot of moving parts with this project,” including several grants that have made it possible. “We have a $600,000 grant from the state of Illinois to potentially bid out the entire project and the construction,” Hermens said. “What this allows us to do, with the American Water $250,000 grant we received, this gives us the opportunity to pre-purchase the equipment and have that fabricated behind the scenes while we’re working on a final design and Department of Public Health permit. “With our Parks and Rec staff,

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They wait in jails for months to be transferred to state-run psychiatric hospitals, without having been found guilty of any crime.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate took an important step Tuesday toward passing the nation’s annual defense policy bill, but the legislation did not include provisions aimed at compensating victims of radioactive contamination in St. Louis and around the country. The reliably bipartisan legislation is expected to hit the same hard-right opposition in the U.S. House […]

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The St. Louis Blues take on the Detroit Red Wings at Enterprise Center.

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This is just a bit of trivia, but Bob Somerby mentioned something odd today about the House committee that the odious Elise Stefanik sits on. Here's what their website looks like: All the Republicans get nice color photos. The Democrats get crammed into a tiny space with just their names. Seriously? Unless there's some obscure ...continue reading "A House committee displays its partisan pettiness for all the world to see"

The $300 million City Foundry development is a project of New + Found.

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Every pastor who was part of the elementary school evaluation process in the Archdiocese of St. Louis' "All Things New" restructuring process said they want their elementary school to remain open for the 2024-25 school year. About one-third of the archdiocese's more than 80 elementary schools went through a consultation process to discuss the current and future status of the school. In a release on Tuesday, the archdiocese said all of the pastors involved in the process said they wanted to keep…

Rangers and agents with the National Park Service's Investigative Branch immediately launched an ongoing investigation.

Congress is poised to give final approval to the National Defense Authorization Act, a customarily popular and bipartisan bill. But, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley voted “no” and he’s accusing congressional leadership of abandoning St. Louis-area victims poisoned by nuclear contamination from the Manhattan Project. Hawley talks with STLPR senior environmental reporter Kate Grumke about his opposition to the bill.