Mid Rivers Newsmagazine Your online news source for St. Charles County, Missouri

The Wentzville School District Ratchet Rockers Robotics Team 1706, the 2018 Missouri State FIRST Robotics Competition [FRC] Champions, were honored with a resolution by the St. Charles County Council.

David Yang earned the STARS Award for Excellence in Research for his paper titled “Evaluating mineral proxies of microbial sulphate reduction in Santa Monica Basin sediments.

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. 

The public is invited to a 2030 Master Plan Open House to review and comment on the anticipated draft findings and recommendations of a steering committee, which was appointed by County Executive Steve Ehlmann and the County Council to examine what adjustments to the 2025 Plan, adopted in 2013, may be warranted. 

From 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27, residents are urged to take unused prescription medications to police departments throughout the county as part of a nationwide effort to eliminate the possibility of the drugs harming someone else or getting into the wrong hands.

IDDHelp.org will provide a centralized resource for getting connected to services via internet searches, email or phone calls. 

Letters to the editor for the Oct. 10 issue.

Letter to the editor for the Oct. 10 issue.

This week, Mid Rivers Newsmagazine talks with Bill Dennis, who with his wife, Barbara, founded Frank’s Heroes, a 501[c][3] organization that offers free guitar lessons to veterans.

It has been a senior season to savor and celebrate for Francis Howell Central outfielder Claudia King.