ALTON - Jackson Pranger of Marquette Catholic High School and Summer Collman of Alton High School were honored as Students of the Month of March at a recent meeting of the Rotary Club of Alton-Godfrey held at Gentelin’s on Broadway Restaurant. Jackson Pranger is the son of Rick and Sara Pranger of Jerseyville. He is a senior at Marquette Catholic High School and plans to attend Lewis and Clark Community College and then transfer to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, majoring in Ag Accounting. While attending Marquette, Jackson has been a member of the National Honors Society for two years. He has earned High Honor Roll all four years while taking honors, AP, and dual credit classes and holds a GPA of 4.4. As a part of Jackson’s Infinity Engineering class, he and two of his classmates created a device that helped workers with disabilities at their job. Also, while at Marquette, Jackson played basketball, soccer and tennis. Jackson has accumulated over 175 service
The twenty-two officers honored at the 2nd District Police Business Association's annual awards luncheon led a widely praised response to the incident.
Jeff Haug will lead the Mehlville School District as its new superintendent, the district announced Monday.
Haug currently serves as chief operations officer for Special School District of St. Louis County, where he has worked since 2020.
The Mehlville district's Board of Education unanimously voted March 10 in favor of Haug's selection, according to a press release.
Haug, who will take his new post July 1, succeeds Chris Gaines, who has been Mehlville's superintendent for the past eight years…
The man accused of killing one Hermann, Missouri, police officer and wounding another in a double shooting was arraigned Wednesday morning and entered a not guilty plea.
Freddie Mac has launched a new program designed to address homeownership gaps in underserved areas of 10 cities nationwide, including St. Louis, by offering funding toward down payments for first-time Black and Latino homebuyers.
This is the altar of the Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, a few minutes walk from our apartment in Paris last year. The building was begun as a church; interrupted by the French Revolution; redesignated as a monument to the Grande Armée by Napoleon; and eventually finished as a church. It was designed in the neoclassical style ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"
The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund has announced the Rock for Ronnie benefit concert in memory of the late Dio frontman. The event will take place…
Here's an odd thing. I asked GPT-4 to write a poem about the Ides of March and it produced one with rhyming couplets. I asked it to try again without rhymes, but it just produced a poem with different rhymes. So I asked it a third time, and then a fourth: I apologize for the ...continue reading "GPT-4 is a little too good at rhyming"
The UK government is entertaining even more plans to undermine (or actually outlaw) end-to-end encryption. And it’s not gaining any support from the multiple services (and multiple people) these efforts would harm. Both Signal and Proton have made it clear they’ll pull their services rather than weaken their encryption to comply with UK government demands. […]
LEAGUE OFFERS VOTE VOTERS GUIDE FOR APRIL 4 ELECTION, Voters can cast Absentee Ballot without Excuse The League of Women Voters of Metro St. Louis has just released an online guide to help voters cast an informed ballot in the April 4 municipal election. “It’s even more important to vote in local elections since […]
Bethany Mandel, a conservative writer, had a bit of brain freeze on live TV yesterday and was unable to define woke for her interviewer. This gave us lefties a chance to laugh at her, and fair enough. That's life in the arena. I really don't understand why movement conservatives haven't yet figured out a simple, ...continue reading "What is woke?"
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