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To ensure the safety of all during the COVID-19 pandemic, the St. Charles County Parks and Recreation Department has announced the cancellation of the 2020 Christmas Candlelight Walks at The Historic Daniel Boone Home and holiday tours at The Daniel Boone Hays Home in Defiance. The events were scheduled for Dec. 4–5 and 11–12, respectively.

UPDATED with list of scheduled readers. — This December, Metro Theater Company will present a reading of Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" featuring Emmy-nominated television star Ellie Kemper, St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, two-time Tony Award-winning actress Judith Ivey, Grammy Award-winning soprano Christine Brewer, Muny favorite Ken Page and more.

Editorial from the Nov. 18 issue.

Williams' editorial from the Nov. 18 issue.

A discussion concerning the approval of a bid for upgrades to county election machinery led to a fairly pointed exchange between two County Council members and County Election Director Kurt Bahr at the council’s Nov. 9 meeting. At the heart of that discussion was the issue of election security.

Extended-release drug formulations are valuable because they involve fewer pills, less side effects and a steady amount of medication for patients …but health experts say a common problem with these drugs is that they don’t stay in the intestine long enough for people to receive the full dose. Recently, scientists at Johns Hopkins University cooperated to address that problem. They designed and tested a completely new type of medicine delivery system inspired by a parasite. Similar to a hookworm – a parasitic worm that digs its sharp teeth into its host’s intestines to feed – Johns Hopkins bioengineers designed tiny, ...

The St. Barnabas Holy Name Men’s Group sponsors a veteran’s essay contest each year at Assumption School in O’Fallon.Both seventh- and eighth-grade students participated in the 2020 contest, which posed the question “What do the American Flag and the Pledge of Allegiance mean to you?”

The old school record for the six-dive meet held strong at 351. Logan Schelfaut of Francis Howell North surpassed the score by over 20 points, earning a score of 374.25.

On. Nov. 3, St. Charles County Police Sgt. Adam Caupp and Officer Eric Feagans were presented with the Medal of Valor and Preservation of Life Award for acts that helped save several lives on two separate occasions.

A new 153-unit, multi-story senior living community has been approved for land at the intersection of Harvester Road and Woodstone Drive.