An Arnold man was released from St Joseph Hospital in St. Louis Thursday after he and a coworker were injured while delivering paving materials to a road construction site in St. Charles, Mo.

Lt. Rick Gerger, of the St. Peters, Mo., Police Department said emergency responders were called to the road construction site on Missouri Highway 94 South and Harvester Road to respond to an accident that occurred at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday.

Gerger said Curt Peters, 51, of Hardin, and Thomas Barton, 50, of Arnold, Mo., both employees of Tramar Contracting Inc., of St. Charles, Mo. had arrived on site with a company truck loaded with rebar paving baskets.

“As the men were undoing the straps on the load so they could offload the rebar paving baskets, the load shifted and rolled off the side onto the truck and onto the men,” Gerger said.

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I received this email from one of the Fox Middle School teachers today.  She said I could pass it on, it is open to the entire community. 

Dear Redbird Parents,

What an emotional, awesome inspiring assembly we had today with Fox High School! All eighth graders attended "Rachel's Challenge" at Rickman Auditorium. For those of you who may not know, the Rachel's Challenge assemblies began in the aftermath of the 1999 Columbine school shooting in Colorado. Its message, "You just may start a chain reaction," is from the words of one of the victims, Rachel Joy Scott. Rachel's father started Rachel's Challenge in memory of Rachel and challenges "students... to make PERMANENT, POSITIVE, CULTURAL CHANGE in their schools and communities by accepting the challenge of Rachel Scott to start a chain reaction of kindness and compassion."

Tonight, at 7:00 p.m. at Rickman Auditorium, Rachel's Challenge is being presented to the community. It is a free event and all are welcome to attend.

Please talk to your children about what they learned and witnessed today during the assembly. Encourage them to take Rachel's Challenge. 

The Missouri Department of Transportation department today announced that it will extend its Motorist Assist Program further along Interstate 55 all the way to Route 67 in Festus.

The program has emergency response teams, which search highways in the St. Louis area in Missouri for any lane blockages caused by broken-down autos, debris in the road or car crashes.

The extended patrol will start on Wednesday, Oct. 1, and it will run each day from 5 a.m. until 7:30 p.m

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Library service is primarily funded through property tax in Missouri. So we are another one of those wonderful institutions like the public schools that you pay for whether you use it or not. In these tight economic times, we all like to get our money's worth so I am taking this opportunity to tell you about one of the library's resources you might not be aware of that can potentially be of great help to your business.

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