a Better Bubble™

Aggregator

Picture This & More Marks One Year on Broadway

3 years ago
ALTON - Picture This & More, a professional custom framing business in Alton, is marking the one-year anniversary of their location on Broadway. Owner Quint Long said the new location has brought in more foot traffic and helped the company become part of a business community. Picture This & More was previously located at the Piasa Shopping Center on Delmar Avenue and has served the Alton community for over 30 years. Long bought the business from a retired couple eight years ago and moved to 17 East Broadway last year to contribute to the downtown Alton revitalization effort. “We were just wanting to jump on board with the revitalization of the downtown-Broadway corridor,” Long said. “John Simmons had a plan to bring more art-related, tourist-related businesses to downtown, and they kind of courted Picture This & More, and here we are.” Long said business has been booming since moving to Broadway. “The first year has been very exciting,” Lon

Continue Reading

Daily Deal: ITU Online All-Access

3 years ago
Use ITU Online Training’s for your own career advancement, and if you have any children at home who are tech-curious, let them try out IT beginner courses to get a head start in life. You’ll get 24/7 access to training in the topics of network admin skills, Cloud deployment, database/server management, networking fundamentals, cybersecurity training, […]
Daily Deal

The Fattened Caf Launches Filipino Sauce Line Nationwide

3 years ago
Charlene Young is trying to dismantle the stigma that plagues school cafeterias: A child opens up a lunchbox – one that doesn’t have a baloney sandwich but instead rice and chicken – and another looks at what’s inside and asks, “Ew, what is that?” Young knows this scene all too well because she experienced it herself growing up as a first-generation Filipino-American in Los Angeles, California.…
Jenna Jones

Edwardsville's Luke Goeckner Named One of Knights Of St. Pat At Missouri S&T

3 years ago
ROLLA, Mo. - The Student Knights of St. Patrick have been selected to represent Missouri University of Science and Technology's student organizations during the 114th St. Pat's celebration in Rolla, Missouri. The students will be knighted during a coronation ceremony at 9 p.m. Friday, March 18, in Leach Theater of Castleman Hall, located on the Missouri S&T campus at 400 W. 10th St. in Rolla. Honorary Knights and the Queen of Love and Beauty will also be honored during the coronation. The practice of knighting students every spring can be traced back to the beginning of the 20th century, when Missouri S&T engineering students declared St. Patrick the patron saint of engineers. The 2022 student Knights of St. Patrick from the area is as follows: Edwardsville's Luke Goeckner, senior, computer science, Miner Theatre Guild

Continue Reading

Brittany Green named Golden Apple Award finalist

3 years ago
Brittany Green, Wyvetter Younge School of Excellence principal in the East St. Louis School District, is a finalist for the 2022 Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Leadership in Illinois. She is one of six finalists out of more than…
St. Louis American Staff