GREENVILLE - The Greenville University Choir is looking forward to presenting a free concert and Q&A session, both open to the public, as part of Commencement weekend on Friday, May 13. The GU Choir will be performing selections from their spring tour this year which will include works by Franz Joseph Haydn, W.A. Mozart, Hyun Kook, Dominick DiOrio, and more. Immediately following the concert, attendees are invited to participate in a 15-minute Q&A session with Don Frazure, GU’s director of choral activities. Frazure says he will introduce GU’s newly hired Choir Recruiter Andrew Gibb-Clark and present the vision for the GU Choir, including plans for an upcoming European tour. “I am very excited about presenting this concert to our Greenville community,” Frazure says. “The choir has done an exceptional job this year working on and performing some very demanding repertoire. We are also implementing some incredible new recruiting efforts for the upcoming
LENEXA, KAN. – This Wednesday, May 11, leaders from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are hosting a Mississippi River Corridor Summit on Water Infrastructure Funding in East Alton, Illinois, with state co-regulators and Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative (MRCTI) mayors. To kick off the summit, federal, state, and local leaders will host a press event overlooking the Mississippi River on top of the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center Confluence Field Station. The Mississippi River Corridor Summit on Water Infrastructure Funding is focused on engaging MRCTI mayors to better understand their water and wastewater challenges and needs, especially those with equity and environmental justice concerns like small rural locations. Reporters are invited to attend the press event in person. EPA Region 7 will stream it on Facebook Live . Reporters may also attend the Mississippi River Corridor Summit on Water Infrastructure Funding in-person or virtually
SPRINGFIELD – Spots are still available for an introductory wingshooting clinic Saturday, May 14 at the Des Plaines State Fish and Wildlife Area in Will County. The clinic is designed for boys and girls 10 years and older and adults who are interested in learning to shoot or improving their ability to shoot a shotgun at moving clay targets. For this wingshooting clinic, participants need to be in the beginner/novice shooting skill level. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), the Illinois Conservation Foundation, and several co-sponsors are hosting the clinic, which is designed to teach participants how to safely shoot a shotgun at a moving target with reasonable reliability. The clinic will begin with a shotgun safety presentation at 10 a.m., followed by a short, small-group, hands-on shotgun orientation session with each group’s wingshooting instructor. Clinics are taught by instructors certified by the IDNR or the National Sporting Clays Association.
Center Ice announced it has formed a partnership with Charleville Brewery & Winery to continue brewing its products as it builds a statewide distribution strategy.
On the Blue Plate Special In cookbooks of the 50s and 60s, it would be easy to find a recipe for Wedge Salad. There wasn’t much to it: a block of Iceberg lettuce with blue cheese dressing drizzled on top. The crunchy hunk often showed on the Blue Plate Special at neighborhood restaurants. By the...
U2's Bono has certainly lived an interesting life, and now we'll get to read his side of the story in his memoir, Surrender, coming November 1. The book may be…
Let's test the economic mettle of my readers. Do you think inflation went up, down, or stayed the same last month? The BLS will report their results on Wednesday at 8:30 am Eastern time. Loading…
ST. LOUIS - It's Free Trip Tuesday, brought to you by Ryan Kelley, The Home Loan Expert. On Tuesday, May 10, contestants could win a trip for four to Indianapolis. It includes a two-night stay at the historic Omni Hotel. One lucky winner also gets tickets to the Indianapolis Zoo, the world's largest children's museum, [...]
This week the Biden administration spent some time celebrating its accomplishments on broadband. The nation’s about to invest $42 billion in expanding broadband access (even though we still haven’t mapped broadband accurately). The administration also implemented the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which doles out a $30 discount on broadband for qualifying low income households. In […]
Dr. H. Eric Clark, Ed.D., president at Loyola Academy, Saint Louis University High School (SLUH) board member and former administrator, and a leader in Jesuit education nationally – was recognized on April 25, 2022 with the Backer Award. The highest…
The former Lumière Place Casino now has a new name: Horseshoe St. Louis.
The new name was made official at a ribbon-cutting ceremony under the new entryway sign Monday. Leaders from Horseshoe St. Louis and the casino's parent company, Caesars Entertainment, were on hand for the event.
In 2020, the then-owner of the casino and 294-room hotel, Eldorado Resorts Inc., closed on an $8.58 billion cash-and-stock merger with Caesars Entertainment Corp. The company retained the Caesars name as Caesars…
Husky Corp., a Pacific-based maker of fuel dispensing products, has acquired an East Coast manufacturer and its line of fuel additives.
Husky said in a press release that it purchased Youngstown, New York-based Kinetic Laboratories and the K100 line of gasoline and diesel fuel treatment additive products. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Kinetic Laboratories had been owned by principals John Bedard and CEO Mark Quallen, neither of whom will remain with the company or retain any ownership stake,…
CORRECTION: The original story said Debz Corner was located in Ballwin. According to the City of Ballwin, Debz Corner is in Manchester. The bar has a Ballwin mailing address. ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - A bar in Manchester was on fire Tuesday morning. The fire started at about 6:30 a.m. at Debz Corner located in [...]
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