Metro East Area News Briefs
February 27, 2019Tech school students offer public sample services cheap In an increasingly tight labor market — with many types of well-qualified skilled and technical workers hard to find — many…
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Mannie Jackson Center gets grant for water rec, gardening efforts
February 25, 2019The Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities Foundation (MJCHF) will receive a $95,000 grant from the National Recreation Foundation to fund water recreation through the Swarovski Waterschool…
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HeartLands Conservancy marks 30 years of environmental work
February 21, 2019As the Green New Deal brings added ferocity to the already fractious atmosphere in Washington, a grassroots Metro East group is celebrating 30 years of quietly but effectively helping…
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Metro East Area News Briefs
February 20, 2019Edwardsville becoming ‘urban lifestyle’ mecca Edwardsville saw a record $248 million in new construction during 2018, Mayor Hal Patton reported during the city’s annual Business…
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Annual summit to address Kaskaskia Watershed solutions
February 16, 2019The annual Kaskaskia Summit will be held on Monday, March 4 at the Mariner’s Village Resort Conference Center in Carlyle. The conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m….
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R.F.D. NEWS & VIEWS: Soybean yields, human affect on global warming and more
February 14, 2019This week in your farm and rural news roundup: Illinois set a new yield record for corn and soybeans in 2018, but no one knew it until the delayed USDA production summaries were finally…
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Metro East Area News Briefs
February 13, 2019New 600-acre TradePort coming to Pontoon Beach The Gateway TradePort – a new 600-acre industrial park with seven million square feet of institutional industrial space – will begin…
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R.F.D. NEWS & VIEWS: shutdown delays, food safety alert and more
February 7, 2019This week’s farm and rural news rundown will focus on the first USDA crop reports issued in several weeks, and the ramifications of the recently ended partial federal government shutdown…
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