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Couples names: Scott & Stacey Willis City: Carrollton Date met or started dating: March 18, 2018 Date married: June 18, 2022 What makes your relationship special? There's never a dull moment around each other. We are always up to something to either prank or tease the other. Share a memory you have made together: Going to Lake of the Ozarks for my birthday the July after we started dating. Taking a dinner cruise around the lake. We try going somewhere every year.

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Not this again… a few years ago we wrote a post about Senator Joe Manchin’s very, very, very bad “See Something Say Something” Act. The bill would remove Section 230 for companies that don’t file a shit ton of nonsense busywork filings for anything they see online that might be bad having to do with […]

It appears we have Pantera to thank for Dave Grohl appearing on our TVs during the Super Bowl. As previously reported, the Foo Fighters frontman starred in an ad for…

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Couples names: Angie Hillman & Matt Knight City: Alton Date met or started dating: June 11, 2022 What makes your relationship special? Although we’ve been dating a short time we are truly each others person. Dating after 40 is hard and never did I think I’d find the one in Alton Illinois. I moved here the year before we met and had given up on dating during that year. We connected on a Facebook dating shortly after I decided to give dating one last try. Our first “date” we spent 8 hours pressure washing my fence to prep it for painting and our second “date” he painted it! It took a few more dates for him to grow on me but when I met his friends and saw how kind he is and unapologeticley himself he is I was smitten! Less than a week ago he had a heart attack. Seeing him go through that and the recovery has made me love and cherish him even more! Share a memory you have made together: We’ve had many days on the river since meeting

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GOBBLERS KNOB, Penn. - Bethalto’s Steve Lowrance checked off a big bucket list item recently when he visited Punxsutawney, Penn., for the annual Groundhog Day Celebration. He said quite frankly when he returned that this was fulfilling a notch on his bucket list. “I went with my wife, Patti, my daughter and son-in-law, and my two grandkids,” he said. “They paid for my trip, which was present at Christmas time.” Steve Lowrance loves the movie “Groundhog Day” starring actor Bill Murray and even watched the movie a few times while he was at the festival. Steve only lived the experience one time, while Murray's character relived the festivities over and over again in the movie. Steve said it was wonderful to have his two grandkids there to enjoy this special moment with him. Reflecting on the Groundhog Day movie, he said in the beginning the Bill Murray character was not a very nice person. “He finally got a heart and he also found true

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Couples names: Alex & Abbie City: Bethalto Date met or started dating: September 1, 2007 What makes your relationship special? We had fifteen years of close friendship before falling in love in early 2022! There was no "new relationship learning curve" because we had almost our entire lives of learning about each other and growing both seperately and together before our timing was perfect, and the last few pieces fell into place for us to spend our forever together! Share a memory you have made together: Too many to choose! Abbie- "My personal favorite is the collective of all the nights spent stargazing for hours, only to feel myself slowly falling for my best friend, my favorite person--the memory still gives me butterflies!" Alex- "We've been there with each other for so many ups and downs throughout our entire platonic and romantic relationship, and all of my favorite memories are with her."

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Couples names: Ed & Lana Johnson City: Brighton Date met or started dating: August 11, 1971 Date married: February 23, 1973 What makes your relationship special? We both been so good to each other & we both provided for each other even in hard times. Sharing a love & a life God wants us to have. With doing that we have a beautiful family together! Also having the cutest puppy dog “Patty B”! Share a memory you have made together: A memory we share together, is we renewed our vowels 3 different times!

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Blackline Design + Construction has started construction on a conversion of a former industrial building in the Fox Park neighborhood into apartments.

Couples names: Stephen & Mariah Cope City: South Roxana Date met or started dating: September 30, 2018 Date married: February 18, 2022 What makes your relationship special? No matter what we go through, we are always there for each other at the end of the day. He is my rock and my best friend. Share a memory you have made together: Adding to our family and getting married in 2022 are my 2 favorite memories so far!

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Lucas Kunce, the affable and fresh-faced candidate working to unseat the fist-raising insurrectionist-boosting-turned-insurrectionist-fleeing Senator Josh Hawley, introduced his new bride, Marilyn (Martinez) Kunce over brunch at Benton Park Cafe on Saturday. His senior advisor, Connor Lounsbury, arranged the meeting, and told me he would be joining us. “You’re flying in just for brunch?” I asked during our call.

Couples names: Nate & Kari Alderfer City: Greenfield Date met or started dating: August 1, 2014 Date married: September 26, 2015 What makes your relationship special? She is a great mother to our children and I could not be more blessed. Share a memory you have made together: We took our kids on a side by side trip to the creek and the kids saw a snake and would not get back in the water.

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Couples names: Anna & Trent City: Godfrey Date met or started dating: March 7, 2022 What makes your relationship special? I mean i don’t really know what would make our relationship special to anyone other then us. We are each other homes. Share a memory you have made together: We like to take my niece on dates and last week we took her to an arcade and she’s autistic and she really wanted a bear from this claw machine and she couldn’t grasp that we couldn’t get it so he sat there trying for about 20 mins and used about $40 just to get this bear for her it made her whole day and mine to see her hood it and laugh and smile and right after that we took her to McDonald’s ofc and she was scared to Go up in it alone but she really wanted to Go Down the slide but she was also scared so trent he’s a 6’4 man he got up in the play place and he went up the stairs and down the slide with her it was the best thing ever and the pure joy

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Couples names: Summer & Tyler City: Alton Date met or started dating: November 19, 2014 Date married: April 12, 2019 What makes your relationship special? As high school sweethearts, we got to experience many firsts and milestones together. We both grew together from a couple of teenagers, to adults with a 2 year old. We’re happily married and still haven’t left the “puppy love” stage. Share a memory you have made together: There are a lot of memories we’ve had together, but the one I remember most vividly is in 2015 we were watching James and the Giant Peach talking about our future and hoping we could make our future come true. Here we are 8 years later with everything and more!!

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Two Maplewood Richmond Heights graduates have been reported passed on. Also, Feast and Sauce magazines report that a vegan and gluten-free bakery is moving into the former Pie Oh My space on Sutton Boulevard. The Bradenton Times — Robert Alan Price obituary (MRH graduate) Leader Publications — Joyce (Loida) Van Sickle, 76, Hillsboro (MRH graduate) […]

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band brought their tour to Dallas this weekend, but it was short a few people. Three members of the E Street Band had to sit out…

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A glorious flavor vehicle not nearly as persnickety to cook as its reputation otherwise suggests, eggplant has been low-key livening up the menus at some of the area's restaurant hot spots over the past year. Here are a handful of ways to get your fix.