Since Belleville has claimed Uno, the famous Westminster Kennel Club Show winner, as our own, I was interested when someone gave me a clip from a magazine showing that the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman has done the same.
M is for the many things she gave me. O is for the other things she gave me.
Some of you may be getting a little tired of Uno by now. I know I groaned when the Little Beagle That Could showed up on the front page of our newspaper -- again.
Organizers are hoping magic will strike this weekend at the Sixth Annual Point of Departure celebration at the Lewis & Clark State Historic Site in Hartford.
These days it's not unusual to see teenagers hanging out in the Mascoutah Public Library. Normally teens don't go to libraries unless they have to, but Mascoutah is offering them a big attraction - their own walled-off room.
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IN A SMALL space just off the Belleville Public Square, B.J. Vogt is letting artists show off their work a month at a time.
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IT'S NOTHING like swimming with the dolphins, but earlier this month, Richard Blanchet had his own unique animal experience -- flying with the rhinos.
The 2008 version of the Tour de Belleville bicycle ride will be seeing red -- not as in losing money, but as in red shirts, balloons and banners.
A SPUR of the moment idea has netted an award and a little cash for the Heartlinks Grief Center at Family Hospice in Belleville.
It's easy for me to sit here and send out appeals for charities, organizations and good causes.
"The Longest Monday" took the longest time to write.
It's a big pile of dirt now but it won't be long before the site at the entrance to the Mel Price Locks and Dam near Alton will be a sophisticated research center helping scientists understand and manage rivers.
On Thursday, I got some advice that I don't think I ever will forget. "Never step on a Segway that isn't smiling," said Jeannie Young, Segway manager for the St. Louis Science Center.
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Even though this is appearing on April Fools' Day, it is no joke.
WHEN THE folks at Cambridge House in Maryville finish up their 6,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, I can proudly claim I put in one piece.
WE'RE THREE months into the new year, but it's never too early to be thinking about Christmas, at least not for the Christmas in the Park Committee in Lebanon.
ROXANA PROMISES to be motorcycle central Sunday for the 10th annual Blessing of the Bikes.
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THEY SAY it's not bragging if you can back it up, so Art on the Square had every right to hold its "We're No. 1" party Wednesday evening at Bellecourt Place in Belleville.
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