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ST. LOUIS -- Cherokee Street came alive with jazz music from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, November 6 for the 11th annual JazzCrawl on Cherokee Street. Cherokee Street was filled with the sounds of jazz music from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. During the street crawl, attendees enjoyed various musical performances. Following the [...]

Green Door Art Gallery presents Finding Flow: Immersed in the Act of Creating fea-turing acrylic paintings by Angela Fromme, Gary Lang and Luciana Sabatino, mixed me-dia paintings by Elena Rybak […]

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Longtime employees Kenny Clifton and Jack O’Leary, both 28, took over the 77-year-old family-run butcher shop in Brentwood in September.

Richard Russell has been in federal prison for the better part of two decades. He's been writing letters throughout that time, ranging from threats to apologies to cries for help.

Bill McClellan writes: “... the photo stuck with me. I love the year 1927. It illustrates how difficult it is to imagine the future.”

Whistleblower alleges multiple cases of abuse at Niños de México, and he’s not the only one.

Over 50,000 Black St. Louisans are buried in the Hillsdale cemetery, including freedom fighter Harriet Scott.

Companies have spilled nearly 150 million gallons of toxic, highly saline wastewater in Texas over the last decade, an Inside Climate News analysis found.

CHICAGO – Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced Friday that the State of Illinois has awarded $3.5 million in funding to 19 different applicants across the state to support post-pandemic child and adolescent health. The size of the grants ranges from $92,000 to $200,000. Both a Macoupin County and St. Clair County department and the center received significant awards. The new round of grants follows $9.5 million in grants that were primarily federally funded to 40 organizations around the state announced last week. The Macoupin County Health Department received $200,000 from the grant, the maximum amount awarded. Comprehensive Behavioral Center of St. Clair County, Inc., also received $172,193.26, another large amount. Of the new round of grants, 41% are awarded to behavioral health treatment centers, 21% to schools, 21% to healthcare groups, 11% to local health departments and 5% to colleges. The grants are funded by the state

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EDWARDSVILLE – Metro-East Lutheran High School will host an Open House at its campus on Center Grove Road on Sunday, Nov. 12, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The event, which is open to the public, will allow attendees to take a tour of the school’s campus, meet with faculty and administration and find out more about the school’s academic, athletic and extracurricular offerings as well as get answers to questions about tuition, financial assistance and scholarship opportunities. Metro-East Lutheran High School (MELHS) has been providing academic excellence in a Christ-centered environment for more than 40 years. For more information about Metro-East Lutheran High School, email admissions@melhs.org or go to www.melhs.org .

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ALTON - Marilyn Hope (Waide) Lake, a former Altonian and longtime award-winning author, earned two more awards to add to her impressive portfolio as an author of everything from poetry to nonfiction to children’s stories and more. Lake received two awards at the Missouri Writers Guild (MWG) statewide conference, which was held on Sept. 23, 2023, in Columbia, Mo. Lake was born in Alton and graduated from Alton High School in 1960. A conversation she had with a fellow member of her graduating class inspired one of her award-winning written works. Lake was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Best Poem category for her poem, "The Right Thank You," based on an incident told to her by her Alton High School Class of 1960 classmate Larry Donahue of Godfrey. She also received the Third Place award in the Best Nonfiction Book category for her memoir, “STORIES FROM MY LIFE, 2nd edition,” which was published in 2022 by Storyworth. Lake participated in the MWG’s

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