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Plant conservation meeting happening today at Missouri Botanical Garden

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:21:57 GMT

ST. LOUIS - International officials meet in St. Louis Friday to discuss plant conservation to prevent plants from becoming extinct. Missouri restaurant among TripAdvisor’s 25 best ‘hidden gems’ The meeting is at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Participants will announce the garden's commitment to the 'Global Strategy for Plant Conservation,'  which will be recommended to the United Nations for the entire planet.

St. Clair County English teacher on leave over 'Onlyfans' page

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:21:57 GMT

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. - The St. Clair County School District placed a high school English teacher on leave after discovering her profile on the pornography website Onlyfans.Brianna Coppage, 28, told FOX 2's partners at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that her access to school email and other software has been revoked while the district investigates. She also shared that she joined Onlyfans over the summer to supplement her teaching salary. St. Louis had only 2 officers for an entire district – Both called in sick According to the Post-Dispatch Coppage made about $42,000 last year teaching freshman and sophomore English. She says she earned an additional $8,000 to $10,000 a month performing on Onlyfans.The district says any action taken against Coppage will be in accordance with board policy.

'Das Bevo' Oktoberfest taking place today

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:21:57 GMT

ST. LOUIS - It's a big weekend for celebrating German heritage.Urban Chestnut hosts its annual 'Oktoberbest' Friday and Saturday. It's also Oktoberfest this weekend at the Bevo Mill. Missouri restaurant among TripAdvisor’s 25 best ‘hidden gems’ 'Das Bevo' Restaurant is hosting the party Friday through Sunday. There will be German bands and polka dancing plus plenty of beer, and a sausage eating contest.Admission is free.

Butterfly House celebrating 25th anniversary with Hollywood-theme party tonight

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:21:57 GMT

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - The Butterfly House is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a big Hollywood-themed party Friday night.You can be a social butterfly and dance the night away. The fundraising event will include a cocktail reception and floral-inspired desserts. St. Louis had only 2 officers for an entire district – Both called in sick The Butterfly House is in Faust Park on Olive Boulevard in Chesterfield.

Volunteers cleaning up trash downtown today

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:21:57 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Volunteers will be on the streets Friday to pick up trash in downtown St. Louis.It's a partnership between 'Explore St. Louis' and the downtown community improvement district. They'll focus on areas around the convention center and downtown hotels. St. Louis had only 2 officers for an entire district – Both called in sick The goal is to tidy up the city for tourism. They call it the "Tourism Trash Force."It's an annual event.

Everything you need to know about the solar eclipse at Mesa Verde National Park

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:21:57 GMT

NASA personnel will soon be in Colorado for a celestial event that hasn’t been visible from North America in more than a decade.On Oct. 14, Mesa Verde National Park in Southwest Colorado will be almost directly in line with the annular solar eclipse. During this type of event, the moon comes between the Earth and the sun and blocks most of the light.Because the moon will be at one of its furthest points away from the Earth, the moon will appear smaller than the sun and not block its light completely. Instead, the moon will appear as a black dot surrounded by what’s called a “ring of fire.”It’s a stunning sight – one that can only be viewed safely with the aid of protective eyewear, according to NASA. That’s why Mesa Verde is expecting robust crowds during the otherwise sleepy shoulder season.“This event might be pretty huge compared to an average October day,” said Eric Sainio, supervisory park ranger at Mesa Verde. “NASA has told us that in former annual eclipses, they’ve see...

Theater review: Local Theater Company’s “You Enjoy Myself” grabs us at “hey”

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:21:57 GMT

Fast friends Cory (Bobby Bennet, left) and Isabel (Iliana Lucero Barron) in Local Theater Company’s world premier of “You Enjoy Myself.” (Michael Ensminger, provided by Local Theater Company)Even if the beloved-by-so-many band Phish isn’t your jam, the new play “You Enjoy Myself” very well might be. Because as Judith (Eden Lane) tells the audience at the outset of Topher Payne’s intricate, sexually frisky and open-hearted work, “Melody and memory cradle you, wrapped up in your collected stories … whether you feel swaddled or smothered … You’re just there.”Music’s power to be exquisitely personal even as it can be deeply communal is on fine display as the comedy’s Phish phanatics and their loved ones revisit their bonds and forge new ones. “You Enjoy Myself” is receiving its world premiere at the Dairy Center for the Arts thanks to the diligent work of the Boulder-based Local Theater Company, which nurtured the sly comedy at its 2022 annual development gathering, Local Lab.A decades-...

Bustang canceled 51 Colorado rides over past two weeks

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:21:57 GMT

Coloradans planning to take Bustang buses between Front Range cities couldn’t be certain they’d reach their destinations this week as the state transportation agency’s contractor again canceled rides, inconveniencing travelers at a rate of roughly one in 13 scheduled buses.Bustang service between Denver and Fort Collins has been canceled nearly every day since Sept. 11.  Bus rides between Lamar and Colorado Springs also were canceled on Tuesday, according to the “alerts”  that the Colorado Department of Transportation’s contractor, Ace Express Coaches, posts at ridebustang.com and on X, the social media site formerly called Twitter.These followed delays and cancelations over the past month on multiple routes around Colorado. CDOT and contractor officials blamed the frequent delays on traffic and the cancelations on “driver unavailability,” particularly along the high-demand route that links Denver and Fort Collins.The cancelation rate for the 692 bus tr...

The radical idea to combat Colorado’s predatory towing problem

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:21:57 GMT

John Connolly wants to scrap the entire system and start over.The president of the Towing & Recovery Professionals of Colorado, a trade group representing the state’s towing operators, remembers how his industry used to operate. Back in the 1970s and ’80s, property owners paid towers to remove abandoned vehicles from their lots — without charging consumers.But in recent decades, “we allowed the fox in the henhouse,” state Rep. Andrew Boesenecker, a Fort Collins Democrat, said.Apartment complexes, which used to pay to have cars removed, now get the service for free. Instead, tow carriers bill drivers hundreds of dollars per tow, causing serious financial strain for a wide swath of low-income residents. And the more cars these companies haul off to tow yards, the more money they rake in.Colorado lawmakers in recent years have sought to address these financial incentives by passing a “Towing Bill of Rights” designed to better protect consum...

Better than expected, still dicey: Colorado business leaders size up economy

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:21:57 GMT

The economy has turned out better this year than Colorado business leaders expected, but they remain pessimistic due to high interest rates, inflation and trouble filling open jobs.The latest Leeds Business Confidence Index released Thursday by the University of Colorado in Boulder marks the seventh consecutive survey indicating business leaders’ pessimism about the national and state economies.A score of 50 is neutral, while marks below that signal negative outlooks. The overall confidence index fell to 43.6 heading into the fourth quarter of 2023, down from of 44.1 in the third quarter.But the outlook for the first quarter of 2024 brightened a bit to an overall level of 45.7.“We heard from business leaders, a majority of them, about two-thirds, indicated the economy has outperformed their expectations so far in 2023,” said Brian Lewandowski, executive director of research at CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business.At the same time, Colorado business leaders c...