Now in its 18th year, the IBEW Electrical Workers Minority Caucus’ (EWMC) coat drive continues to work with organizations to bring warmth to families in need. On Dec 6, 2022, members of the minority caucus delivered 60 coats for children to the Hazelwood School District. The minority caucus is part of the Electrical Connection, a […]
JERSEYVILLE - Students in the Jersey Community High School Advanced Design class have been busy this holiday season making their own crafts and merchandise to sell for a good cause. Advanced Design teacher Erica Heitzig challenged her students to raise $100 each to donate to kids at JCHS who otherwise wouldn’t have Christmas gifts, and she said they have all reached that goal. Students worked individually or in groups and have been hard at work crafting handmade ornaments, designing sweatshirts, and promoting their products on social media. Heitzig said one team of four girls advertised their embroidered sweatshirts on social media and got 65 orders overnight. “It’s been neat to see what the students have done - some are doing machine embroidery, some are doing handmade crotchet ornaments, others are using the sewing machine or our Glowforge laser cutter, and there’s been some vinyl projects too,” she said. “I’m just the facilitator over
The mixed-use proposal calls for creating what it calls an “amenity-rich vertical city” at AT&T tower with only 300,000 square feet of office space on lower floors of the building, above a 150-room hotel.
The Westport-based, family-owned producer of non-ferrous metals, which has just over 120 of its more than 900 companywide employees based locally, has promoted an executive to the CEO's role.
With the fresh financing, the provider of R&D services for agriculture companies said it has been able to complete an acquisition of a local greenhouse business.
The former location in Clayton was 4,600 square feet and had an ATM inside. The new site has a drive-through ATM and an interactive teller machine, in which customers interact with tellers via video.
Here is my third triptych of the week, a series of views of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The top one is at sunrise, taken from the Place de la Concorde looking west. The middle one is the same but taken later in the day. The bottom one is midafternoon, taken from La Défense ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"
The Dining Divas Check Out a “Dive” in Clayton Just because I couldn’t remember the name of the last Dining Diva’s restaurant a week after we’d visited shouldn’t mean that it was forgettable. It’s more about my “plate being too full” (see what I did there?). And any place with the word “dive” in it […]
From KSDK: A worker was killed and another was injured after a crane overturned and crashed to the ground at an oil refinery in Wood River, Illinois, Tuesday. Phillips 66 spokeswoman Melissa Erker said the crane overturned at the company’s Wood River Refinery at around 10:45 Tuesday morning. She said one contract employee was killed […]
In writing online about a case about online expression, I’ll open with a reference to some more online expression: the popular meme featuring the caption, “The worst person you know just made a great point.” And that’s where we are with this case just heard by the US Supreme Court: 303 Creative v. Elenis, where […]
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - FIFA World Cup soccer can be seen on FOX 2 Friday starting at 8 a.m. with Croatia vs. Brazil. The 11 a.m. news will follow the soccer game on both FOX 2 and KPLR 11. Stay tuned for the Netherlands vs Argentina at 12:00pm. Watch Studio STL at noon on KPLR 11 only. See our full [...]
Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen is recovering from what's described as a "procedure," and will have to miss the band's scheduled shows this Friday and Saturday. On Instagram, the band…
GODFREY - The Annual Cookies and Cocoa For Community Christmas event carries on the legacy of David Freer's commitment to this particular charity year after year. David, who was a Freer Auto Body founder in Godfrey, died in September 2008, but his family has continued collecting and raising funds for the charity ever since his death in memory of him. Community Christmas is a United Way program that provides support to dozens of local non-profits in Southwest Illinois. Community Christmas donations assist the less fortunate during the holiday season to make sure who otherwise wouldn't have it, have toys, clothing, etc. Freer Auto Body's Christmas In July this year collected an astounding $52,000 for the charity. Margaret Freer, a current owner of Freer Auto Body and David's mother, said indeed they as a family have always tried to remember David year after year in this special way - supporting his favorite charity, Community Christmas. Lily and Taylor Freer have been catalysts
“I look forward to reviewing this commission’s work to chart a course that restores the vitality of Black communities in our city after decades of disinvestment."
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