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BY JEANETTE EBERLIN-RIZZELLO
The Hazelwood City Council has a new member to represent Ward 5. Russell Todd, he has lived in Hazelwood since 1999, and he served on the city’s Board of Adjustment for 8 years.
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Movie review: The Longshots
BY MAGGIE SCOTT
How many people know a town like Minden, Illinois, in the new family drama, The Longshots, where the get-up-and-go got up and went years ago? Where jobs moved out and people moved on to better lives somewhere else, leaving behind people like Curtis (Ice Cube), stuck at a losing moment in their lives when the bootstraps broke?
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Movie review: House Bunny
BY MAGGIE SCOTT
Do young women struggling with poor body images, serial boy problems and fitting in with the clique-du jour at school really need a role model like Shelley Darlingson, the heroine of the new comedy The House Bunny? Most hip teenage girls will get the joke and get the message this wildly satirical free-for-all is pitching.
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Ferguson-Florissant School District’s Festival for the Young Child is Sept. 13
The Ferguson-Florissant School District’s Early Education department offers a wide variety of educational experiences for young children many of which are free. The district’s “kick off” event is the” Festival for the Young Child” to be held September 13, Saturday, from 10-2, James J. Eagan Center, # 1 James J. Eagan Drive, Florissant.
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Dining Divas: First Impressions Make ‘Off the Vine’ Seem More Off the Mark
BY LISA KAMPETER
First impressions, unfortunately, can make or break an evening when it comes to dining out with the Dining Divas. From the stormy weather to the last minute cancellations, we should have taken the hint. This month’s restaurant of choice would never recover.
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Ferguson-Florissant Earns School Bus Safety Award
The Ferguson-Florissant School District’s bus maintenance program has been praised as “exemplary” by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
The state cited the district’s 15 consecutive years of earning a 90 percent or higher grade on bus safety inspections. Just two of the state’s 524 school districts earned that distinction at this year’s Missouri Association for Pupil Transportation convention.
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