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Seniors Eat Out: When and Where?

2 years 10 months ago

When Dining over 55 If you’re among the nation’s seniors—55 or over (some say 65)—chances are you eat out 51 times a year. That’s what a 2009 study at Cornell University concluded, and that was during the recession. It means we’re eating out at least once a week “come hell or high water.” That’s more... 

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Jean Carnahan

Aria Burnside Achieves Her Dreams With Her Special Baking Gifts and Faith

2 years 10 months ago
EDWARDSVILLE - Aria Burnside has been highly successful with her business Aria’s Cookies and Confections and has plans to open sometime in the near future at Eastgate Plaza because of shopping center owner Todd Kennedy. Aria has been operating with a ghost kitchen and won a contest through the Alton Main Street IdeaBounce Contest and Eastgate Plaza. The teen entrepreneur will get six months of free rental space at Eastgate Plaza in East Alton, which also has offered to build out a bakery space for Burnside. Aria just turned 18 years old. After she finished Liberty Middle School, she attended Edwardsville High School for a period of time but was struggling and her mother moved her to homeschool. During that time, she started baking and after some of her items were shared at church, others continued to want to purchase cookies and coffee cakes. She started selling things at church bake sales and fundraisers. Before she knew it, her Facebook page blew apart, and she ha

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Illinois' Seltzerland Event Promises a 'Hard Seltzer Paradise'

2 years 10 months ago
Before the New York Times Magazine's glowing recommendation for flavored, effervescent water, before Millennials were bedecking themselves in brand T-shirts,  before ranking every flavor became the thing to do, there was a humble Midwestern household where cans of a beverage called LaCroix were regularly consumed without much comment. Yes, that's right: my family loved LaCroix before it was popular. We didn't call it LaCroix though.
Jessica Rogen

Four Missourians in USA Mullet Competiton

2 years 10 months ago
ST. LOUIS - Friday, August 19 is the final day to vote in the USA Mullet Championship. Nolan Schanz of Festus is one of 25 kids competing for America's best mullet. He is one of the four in the running from Missouri. The other three are Cash Larrison from Catawissa, Zander Trainer from Kennett, and Bowdin [...]
Monica Ryan

Wannabe Censor Ron DeSantis Is Now 0 For 2 With His Censorship Bills: Court Throws Out His ‘Stop WOKE Act’ As Unconstitutional

2 years 10 months ago
Ron DeSantis likes to pretend that he’s in favor of free speech. He talks about free speech quite frequently. But the fact is that he’s a garden variety authoritarian censor in a cheap suit. He keeps passing culture war pro-censorship bills that try to stifle the free speech rights of his critics — quintessential anti-1st […]
conciergecli@a8c.com

Missouri man indicted over threat to Arizona official is a public school employee

2 years 10 months ago

A Missouri public school employee facing federal charges for allegedly threatening an Arizona election official is “embarrassed and humbled,” his attorney said Thursday. Walter Lee Hoornstra, 50, was indicted Tuesday on one count of communicating an interstate threat, which carries a maximum prison term of five years, and one count of making a threatening telephone […]

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Jason Hancock

Family Business Profile: The Fariña family brings three generations of Argentinian flair to St. Louis

2 years 10 months ago
Oswaldo and Oscar Fariña, who together with Oscar’s wife, Ainara Fariña, own the new downtown steakhouse Fariñas Restaurant, grew up around food. The brothers’ grandfather owned a farm, a butcher shop and a bakery in Argentina. Their aunt owned a café that served Argentinian basics. The Fariña family would gather at the cafe every Sunday, where their aunt served empanadas of every kind, basic ham and cheese sandwiches made on small crustless squares of bread called “miga bread” and…
Maddy Simpson