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7 From St. Louis Elite Tramp andTumble Earn National Medals

Thirteen area athletes from St. Louis Elite Tramp and Tumble in Hazelwood competed at the 2007 USA Gymnastics Junior Olympics Tramopoline & Tumbling Nationals, with seven of these athletes winning a combined 7 medals – 2 Gold, 3 Silver, and 2 Bronze. Nearly all the athletes placing in the Top Ten in one or more event.

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Hazelwood Revises Firearms Bill After Gun Owners’ Protests

BY JEANETTE EBERLIN RIZZELLO

The Hazelwood City Council has scrapped the original bill that would have prohibited hunting and use of firearms in the city. Before a crowd of 255 persons on Tuesday, they adopted a new bill allowing hunting and use of firearms but spelling out rules and regulations built around the safety and protection of the residents. It will go into effect in September of 2008.

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Hearings Held in Hazelwood on U.S. Cellular Tower, Academy Expansion

BY JEANETTE EBERLIN-RIZZELLO

After public hearings on two major projects the Hazelwood City Council has ordered the petitioners to provide much more information before second readings of the bills.

At the city council meeting last week first readings were given to two bills: for U. S. Cellular Corporation’s request for a special land use permit for a stealth cross telecommunications transmission tower at 121 Williams Blvd. and Alphabet Soup Academy’s request to expand students’ages from 2 year olds to eighth grade. Alphabet Soup also wants to add adult literacy classes at night at their school at 8390 Latty Ave.

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Movie review: “The Nanny Diaries”

BY MAGGIE SCOTT
The “Nanny Diaries” has a field day depicting one family determined to avoid facing a couple of particularly ruthless “bizarre social patterns” observed among New York’s elite Upper East Side families: benign child neglect and marital infidelity.

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So Many Things Are Coming Down The Pipe in Sports World

BY RANDY GARDNER

Where do we start today, so much to talk about? Not a lot about any particular subject but just a little about many different subjects. Think of it as your typical conversation amongst sports fans; most people including myself know just enough about any one subject to make us dangerous.

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Movie Review: “Rocket Science”

BY MAGGIE SCOTT

In the balcony of a school auditorium a boy and girl are necking. A silent and fundamental form of communication. Below them, a crowd pays rapt attention to the verbal fireworks of a high school debate team demonstrating communication at one of its highest and most refined levels.

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