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Francis Howell finished the Class 4, District 2 tournament with a second-place finish on Feb. 15. The Vikings qualified eight wrestlers for the Class 4 State Tournament, which begins on Feb. 20 at Mizzou Arena in Columbia.

At the Feb. 13 O’Fallon City Council meeting, police officers Keith Lewis and Dominick Misuraca announced that the city of O’Fallon has again been selected as a location for Police Dog Trials. The event is scheduled for June 11-14 and is open for the public to attend.

On the morning of Thursday, Jan. 30, a large crowd of patrons broke ground on the 11th St. Jude Dream Home to be built in the St. Louis area.

Bill No. 7167 sponsored by Mayor Jim Hennessy proposes various amendments to the O'Fallon City Charter and submission of the same to voters in the April 7, 2020, municipal election.

The dream of a privately owned and operated regional airport in St. Louis evaporated a few days before Christmas.

The Missouri Department of Conservation [MDC] is accepting used natural Christmas trees to create fish habitat at Lake 35 on the August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area in St. Charles.

To recycle natural Christmas trees in St. Charles County, residents must remove the stand, all decorations, lights and any packaging and take the bare tree to an approved collection site [see list inside article].

O’Fallon Baseball, Prospect League members that replaced the River City Rascals as the local baseball team and new tenants of CarShield Field, have released its 2020 schedule.

The transition from paper to electronic health records [EHRs] was intended to make it easier for health professionals to access and share patient health information, improve efficiency and reduce medical errors. But it has had the opposite impact … leading to increased workloads, frustration and burnout among doctors, according to a recent cooperative study between Yale and Stanford universities, the Mayo Clinic and the American Medical Association.

Journalism students from Francis Howell North High and Barnwell Middle traveled to the Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Washington, D.C. Nov. 21-24. The students attended learning sessions, participated in competitions and brought home a few awards.