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If you look only at year-to-year occupancy rate, The Meadows at Lake St. Louis seems to have fared well enough during the COVID-19 business closure this spring. In fact, new stores are opening, including Clementine's Nice & Naughty Creamery on July 1.

The employment discrimination lawsuit filed by two senior active police officers against the City of O'Fallon has again been delayed again, most recently by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Editorial from the June 24 issue.

Williams' editorial from the June 24 issue.

When you’re faced with a sudden illness or scary new physical symptom, a frantic search of medical websites and online symptom-checking tools can be hard to resist. However, the diagnoses these sources come up with are wrong much more often than right, research shows.

Multiple fitness centers and gyms are opening and increasing their accessibility.

The Family Arena in St. Charles will reopen for public events after closing for COVID-19, beginning with facility rentals for graduation ceremonies. The first ceremony is scheduled for July 10.

Depression in women is becoming increasingly common. Statistics now show that one in every four women is likely to have at least one episode of major depression at some point in her life. In women under age 30, a major contributor to these rising rates of depression is poor or disturbed sleep, the CDC recently reported.

While a few states have begun to release mobile apps to help contain the spread of COVID-19 among their residents, these apps have also created concerns about users’ personal privacy. As a result, very few people in those states have downloaded them so far – the highest utilization rate is just 2%, according to data gathered in late May.

Duchesne High recently announced the return of 1977 alumnus Paul Boschert as the school’s new athletic director, effective July 1.