The Cuivre River Electric Community Trust Board recently awarded $36,000 to area organizations. Some of the grants are listed below: First Step Back Home in Lake Saint Louis got a $3,000 grant to support its mission of fighting homelessness; The ...
Read More »Little improvement in jobless rate, according to July figures
The St. Louis area’s employment was up some 3,400 jobs in July, according to the Missouri Department of Economic Development. However, the department said the July job increases mostly come from some industries having smaller seasonal decreases than usual. The ...
Read More »School groundbreaking set
Orchard Farm School District officials have scheduled a groundbreaking ceremony this Thursday for the district’s Discovery Elementary School. The ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. on the 20-acre site, located at the end of Mercantile Drive in St. Charles. The ...
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Backwoods to open first Missouri store Backwoods plans to open a 10,000-square-foot store Aug. 29-30 on an out-parcel at The Meadows at Lake Saint Louis shopping center. This will be the retailer’s first store in Missouri. The store will feature ...
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Four re-elected to Cuivre’s board Cuivre River Electric Cooperative members re-elected four directors during the utility’s annual meeting held Aug. 7 at the Family Arena in St. Charles. Incumbent directors Glen Bray, Mark Schulte, Michael “Mick” Burkemper and Glenn Ridder ...
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Read More »A collection of Missouri Lawyers Media articles on Margaret Bush Wilson
Click here to read a collection of Missouri Lawyers Media articles on Missouri legal pioneer and civil rights icon Margaret Bush Wilson, who died Tuesday. Among the articles is "A life that mattered," an essay by Editor Richard Jackoway on Wilson's incomparable life.
Wilson's funeral service will be held Tuesday morning in St. Louis.
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Read More »Funeral service set for Wilson
The funeral service for civil rights icon Margaret Bush Wilson will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, at All Saints Episcopal Church, 2831 N. Kingshighway in St. Louis. Visitation will be held the same morning, beginning at 9 ...
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Read More »Mock trial judges needed
Saint Louis University is looking for local lawyers to serve as judges in its annual mock trial tournament. The annual undergraduate mock trial tournament, The Fifth Annual Billiken Barrister Invitational, will take place Oct. 9 through 10. The university needs ...
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American Railcar’s profit plummets St. Charles-based American Railcar Industries Inc. saw its second-quarter profit fall to $1.1 million, or 5 cents per share, compared to $6.2 million, or 29 cents per share, during the same period a year ago. That’s ...
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Read More »Sheriff’s Office to hold auction on Aug. 29
For those looking for long guns or bicycles, the annual sheriff’s auction is the place to go. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office will auction off the items Saturday, Aug. 29, beginning at 8:30 a.m. The auction will be held at ...
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Read More »Kansas City lawyers in the news, Aug. 3, 2009
Archer appointed to ABA committees Joan Archer, an intellectual property attorney with Lathrop & Gage’s Kansas City office, received two leadership appointments from the American Bar Association this week. She became a member of the Special Committee on Jury Innovations, ...
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