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St. Charles County, Wentzville and Missouri Department of Transportation [MoDOT] officials gathered on Monday, Oct. 15 to commemorate the completion of an important part of a project promised to families who have lost loved ones on U.S. 61 in Wentzville.

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” will be performed by O’FallonTheatreWorks Nov. 2-4 and Nov. 9-11 at O’Fallon’s Municipal Centre, 100 North Main Street. Curtain times are 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. on Sundays.

To spread holiday cheer throughout the community, residents are invited to help area food pantries keep pace with local families’ needs by donating to O’Fallon’s 18th annual Cornucopia of Care. 

Eighteen years after its inception and over 240,000 coats later, the Warners’ Warm-up Coat Drive has become a dependable resource for impoverished men, women and children in the bi-state area. 

To the Editor:  I recently caught up on articles from your publication. The “Just do it” opinion piece is clearly shared by many and in our current political world has established yet another battleground. I have a recommendation for you regarding final thoughts in the last two paragraphs that read: “It’s neither kneeling nor standing for the National Anthem. Rather, it is kneeling to help someone up who has fallen regardless of circumstance, reward or risk. It is standing up for those in need. That is courage. Just do it. Help someone. It’s what our nation and world needs.”  That ...

Letters to the editor for the Oct. 24 issue

Every year, around this time, we write an editorial encouraging our readers to vote. Most years, a couple of weeks from now, we end up just a little disappointed at how few of us did.  That is probably not accurate – we lack the tools to measure how many of our actual readers voted – so it is more appropriate to say that we are nearly always disappointed in the overall turnout. So this year, for the Nov. 6 elections, we are going to come at this a bit differently. First, we are not simply asking you to vote. We ...

We're not sure who said it first, but someone somewhere once uttered “the kitchen is the heart of the home” – no truer words may have ever been spoken, which makes your kitchen remodel all the more important.

Simply defined, an entrepreneur is “a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money.” But is that all there is to entrepreneurship?

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Oct. 3 that George P. Smith, MU Curators Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, is one of a trio of researchers who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry.