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Brings 120 Jobs: Chick-fil-A Announces New Edwardsville Restaurant, Opening Feb. 9

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EDWARDSVILLE – A new Chick-fil-A ® restaurant will begin serving the Edwardsville community on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. Chick-fil-A, Inc. has selected Phillip Brunner as the independent franchised Owner/Operator of Chick-fil-A Edwardsville. Located at 2319 Troy Road, near the Edwardsville Marketplace shopping mall, Chick-fil-A Edwardsville will be open for dine-in, drive-thru, and carry-out from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Guests of Chick-fil-A Edwardsville can place an order for pickup, dine-in, or drive-thru on the Chick-fil-A ® App or online . When joining the Chick-fil-A One ® tiered membership program, guests receive points on every qualifying purchase, which can be used to redeem available rewards. The Edwardsville restaurant joins 22 other Chick-fil-A restaurants serving the wider St. Louis market. Locally Owned and Operated As full-time, hands-on leaders in their restaurants and communities, Chick-fil-A Owner/Operators proudly

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Lincoln School Alumni Foundation to Help Fund District #7 Home-School Liaison   

2 years 9 months ago
EDWARDSVILLE - The Lincoln School Alumni Foundation has generously provided Edwardsville Community Unit School District #7 with funding to employ a part-time home-school liaison. The liaison will be responsible for working collaboratively with families and community partners to ensure the needs of the whole child are being met, while supporting parents/guardians in addressing family needs, social/emotional and academic needs of the student in the home setting, as well as partnering with the educators serving the child. “Part of the Lincoln School Alumni Foundation’s mission is to help under resourced students across the district. Their generosity enables the district to help provide additional resources and opportunities to students who need it the most,” said District #7 Superintendent Dr. Patrick Shelton. “The historic Lincoln School Alumni Foundation is very much aware of District #7’s effort to improve our students’ reading skills,”

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AMC to charge more for good seats in movie theaters

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NEW YORK (AP) — Middle seats at many U.S. movie theaters just got more expensive. AMC Theaters, the nation's largest movie theater chain, on Monday unveiled a new pricing scheme in which seat location determines how much your movie ticket costs. Seats in the middle of the auditorium will cost a dollar or two more, [...]
JAKE COYLE, Associated Press

Netflix’s Unnecessary Password Crackdown Is Already A Hot Mess

2 years 9 months ago
Netflix’s password sharing crackdown hasn’t even launched yet in the States, but is already a public relations mess. The plan is to try to force Netflix customers to pay an extra $2-$3 every month for service for any users using your credentials outside of the home. An accidentally leaked Netflix help guide last week indicated […]
Karl Bode

Daily Deal: Deepstash Bite-Sized Knowledge

2 years 9 months ago
Deepstash is a platform for finding and organizing the ideas that matter to you. It helps you become more inspired, wiser, and productive, through bite-sized ideas. These ideas are represented as little cards you can read at a glance, and all ideas have a source: a book, an article, a podcast, etc. Topics covered include: personal […]
Gretchen Heckmann

"Our Father's Music" Highlights Alton’s Musical Connections 

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ALTON - Lorenzo Small and several other Alton-area musicians have been forming a group called “Our Father’s Music” to highlight the connections Alton and its residents have to music and music history. They had a photoshoot at Lewis and Clark Community College on Saturday, Jan. 28 to help the community visualize the group as they go forward. "We decided if we're going to start group, to at least get a picture so that as we try to promote other artists, anyone on the outside of this group would know who we are," Small said of the photoshoot. “Our purpose is to bring attention to people from the Alton area who are accomplished musicians and/or artists themselves,” he added. Other group members include several Alton-area musicians. The current members are as follows: Howard Neal - frontman and visionary of the group Lorenzo Small - percussionist, group secretary Dilbert Caldwell - vocalist from Alton group “Picture This” Louis Bratte

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RFT Reviews the Week: January 30 to February 4

2 years 9 months ago
MONDAY, JANUARY 30 Ice fell from the heavens overnight, and St. Louis woke up to streets that didn’t look bad — but, this time, actually were. In one horrifying case, that meant a 30-car pileup in west county.
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St. Baldrick's Cancer Fundraiser Highly Successful Once Again

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ALTON - Marquette Catholic’s St. Baldrick’s fundraiser event was highly successful once again Friday afternoon in raising funds for research and cures for cancer. Marquette Catholic Principal Tim Harmon said as of Friday, $7,276 was raised and the class competition donations had not yet been counted. He said usually another few thousand dollars come in from the class competition in the St. Baldrick’s event. “The St. Baldrick’s went very well,” Harmon said. “I believe 12 people had their heads shaved in raising funds for cancer. We also had an overwhelming response from hair stylists to cut hair." The people who had their heads shaved were Mary Donahue (head custodian), Michael Eddy (teacher), Garrett Flowers (teacher), Joe Boevingloh (alumni) Peter Walch (student), Steven Walch (St. Mary’s student), Andrew Roth (student), Christian Maag (student), Thomas Alonso (student), Devon Doherty (student), Michael Wahl (student), Joey Nugen

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