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CARLINVILLE - The Blackburn College Beekeeping Program will host its first beekeeping class this spring. This exciting opportunity will be open to the public, and attendees will have access to the campus’s apiary as a learning resource. The class will run from March 13 until May 9, 2023. The opportunity will consist of eight evening classroom sessions and up to eight in-hive field days on weekends (weather permitting). Those attending the class will learn introductory beekeeping skills, honeybee anatomy and reproduction, as well as hive social structure and function. The class will also include understanding the bees’ relationship to each other, their relationship to humans, the human relationship to bees, the impact on our shared environment, and how it affects both the bees and humans alike. Blackburn College is a chemical-free apiary, and coursework will therefore reflect this. While Blackburn’s commitment to pollinators dates back to the late 1800s, the current

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ST. LOUIS - The Pitch Athletic Club and Tavern will open to the public today on Monday, February 27, 2023. It's a bit of soccer heaven in St. Louis. Located at Market and 20th streets on the northwest corner of St. Louis Union Station, The Pitch is across the street from the new City SC stadium, City Park. The Pitch will be open seven days a week for lunch and dinner and will open at 6:30 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays with breakfast for for fans who follow televised international soccer matches. Large TVs throughout the space will be tuned to soccer matches and other sporting events from around the globe. The new restaurant's interiors are accented with European pub colors and designs. The walls are covered with memorabilia from St. Louis' impressive soccer history. A large display features the current City SC players. See the game schedule here. The menu includes classics from New York's famed Carnegie Deli, including the Reuben, Pastrami and Corned Beef sandwiches. Pub classics

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For the third time in four months, adult hits station WARH (106.5 FM) has grabbed the No. 1 spot in Nielsen ratings for the St. Louis metropolitan market.

WESTMONT - Edwardsville's Cohen Osborn finished in sixth place in the final of the IHSA boys' state swimming meet on Saturday at the FMC Natatorium in Westmont. Osborn, who qualified for the final on Friday, had a time of 50.50 seconds to finish sixth in the race. Brady Johnson of West Chicago won the race at 48.08 seconds, with Szymon Mieczkowski of Schaumburg coming in second at 49.22 seconds and Jaiden Heinlein of Palatine Fremd was third at 49.75 seconds. For his efforts this swim season, Cohen Osborn is an iCAN Clinic Male Athlete of the Month for the Tigers. Hinsdale Central ran away with the state championship, scoring 253 points to win the title, with Winnetka New Trier coming in second with 134 points, third place went to Lincolnshire Adlai Stevenson with 122.5 points, Highland Park was fourth at 89 points and Park Ridge Maine South rounded out the top five with 68 points. The Tigers, on Osborn's sixth-place finish, came in 31st with nine points. Osborn's Coach Christian

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It’s become frustrating how often people insist that losing this or that social media account is “censorship” and an “attack on free speech.” Not only is it not that, it makes a mockery of those who face real censorship and real attacks on free speech. The Washington Post recently put out an amazing feature about […]

WOOD RIVER - East Alton Wood River High School senior Bella Davis has enjoyed her time as a cheerleader for the Oilers. Ever since she started doing cheer when she was just six years old, she said that she loves how it's more than just a team, but more like a second family. Bella is a Midwest Members Credit Union Female Athlete of the Month for the Oilers. She said that sports have taught her discipline, responsibility, dedication, and accountability. She added that they also helped her learn how to work outside her own social group and build new relationships. Bella is also an outfielder on the school's softball team. Post-graduation Bella plans to attend St. Louis University where she plans to study in cardiothoracic.

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Neil Young hasn’t played in front of a crowd since before the COVID-19 pandemic, but that all changed this weekend. Rolling Stone reports the rocker made a surprise appearance at Saturday’s United…

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 KSDK’s Christine Byers breaks the story of the month: The tragic double amputation of a visiting teen volleyball player is due to a St. Louis driver named Daniel Riley — and despite facing felony charges over allegations he stole a gun at gunpoint in 2020, Riley was not in jail, allowing him to instead wreak havoc on the St. Louis streets. Blame Kim Gardner!

When Missouri outlawed the education of all Black and mixed-raced people in 1847, educators had to find a way to keep the lessons going without breaking the law.

Nonprofit won’t say how many people it has served. Its board chairman says it “does absolutely nothing for our neighborhood.”

Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott didn’t let a little altitude sickness get in the way of him rocking out in Bogota, Colombia, this weekend. Blabbermouth.net reports that local news outlets in Bogota reported Elliott…

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Celebration Day played two sold-out nights at the Pageant over the weekend, a late-February tradition for St. Louis’ all-star Led Zeppelin tribute band. The show has become heaven for a crowd that has worshiped Zeppelin since Mondale was vice president, but the men in Celebration Day have earned rock-star status themselves by bringing the music to badass life with remarkable accuracy and muscle since 2006. This year’s installment came with a massive, video-screen backdrop that provided close-ups of the band in action, embellished with psychedelic swirls and other trip-tastic effects.

EDWARDSVILLE – Girls can do anything, engineering included. That was the theme of “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville on Saturday, Feb. 25. Over 130 local middle and high school girls attended the 11 th annual event at SIUE’s School of Engineering (SOE) sponsored by the SIUE Chapter of Society of Women Engineers (SWE). “Women in engineering is uncommon,” said Kaitlyn Colligan, junior industrial engineering major and president of the SWE. “We want to introduce girls to engineering and have it become the norm. Engineering plays a big role in society, and we want the younger generations to know that and see the impact they can have through engineering.” SIUE students and faculty lead various activities for the girls, featuring the engineering disciplines of mechanical, electrical, computer science, civil and industrial. “Engineering is a field that has historically been dominated

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EDWARDSVILLE – Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s highest academic rank of Distinguished Research Professor was unanimously awarded to Kimberly Archer, DMA, professor in the Department of Music. Archer joins a prestigious group of tenured faculty members who have been recognized for their significant contributions to research and creative activities. Archer joined the SIUE faculty in 2005. She is the first woman faculty member in the arts at SIUE to have received this promotion. “I am pleasantly surprised to have received this award,” said Archer. “It is always challenging to explain to faculty and administrators outside the discipline how creative activity and even teaching in the arts works. I am thrilled that I was able to translate these differences successfully to the committee and honored that the committee found my work worthy of award.” Along with teaching music theory, aural skill and orchestration at SIUE, Archer is noted as

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Forty million people in the U.S. are having difficulty affording household expenses, and a little more than 25 million people say they sometimes or often do not have enough to eat, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent Household Pulse survey data. The survey is designed to collect data on household experiences during the pandemic as […]

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ST. LOUIS - Comedian and Emmy-nominated actor Kevin James will bring The Irregardless Tour to Stifel Theatre on September 27. Widely known from his hit sitcom The King of Queens on CBS, Kevin James began his stand-up career on the Long Island, NY comedy scene and has built a legacy comedy career. About Kevin James Kevin James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being discovered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, he signed a network development deal to create his own sitcom. The King of Queens, which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James starring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show concluded its run in 2007 but continues to air daily in syndication across the country and around the world. James also starred in, and executive produced The Crew, a sitcom set in the world of NASCAR and is currently developing a single-camera comedy (both for

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