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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.

Liz Behan of Fort Zumwalt East has helped the Lions already become one of the top teams in the early 2019-20 season.

The Hoots name follows the Prospect League franchise from Hannibal, which relocated to O’Fallon in October.

The facility, proposed for construction at 8100 Phoenix Pkwy. in Winghaven, would provide full-service staffing for maintenance, housekeeping and meals, but would not provide medical care on-site.

The nearly 17,000-square-foot building in the Grand Center/Midtown area will have a capacity of 1,200 for general admission concerts and events. The Sovereign is slated to open in early 2021.

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.

[Adobe Shutterstock photo] For adults who are overweight or obese, timing exercise in the morning before breakfast may help them lose a lot more body fat than waiting until after they eat, a recent British study found.  The study examined how exercising before and after eating early in the day affected muscle fat stores and insulin response in a group of 30 overweight men. It was the first to look at this relationship in people with overweight or obesity, according to the researchers. Participants in the study were divided into three groups: one that ate breakfast before exercising, one that ...

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