The City of Arnold recently welcomed national sporting goods retailer Hibbett Sports Inc. to the city

The new store opened May 3, employing eight full-time and part-time team members.

Women in Jefferson County are 17 percent more likely to be hospitalized for heart and circulation problems than those elsewhere in Missouri.

The American Heart Association named St. Louis among the nation’s least heart-friendly big cities for women. Only Nashville was worse. We’d come in very high on a list of least heart-friendly big cities for men, too.

St. Louis has some of the nation’s finest hospitals and doctors. But as demonstrated by the rate of preventable hospitalizations for congestive heart disease, we also have plenty of health problems.

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The Missouri Department of Transportation scheduled a 2 p.m. ceremony today in Herculaneum to mark completion of the installation of cable barriers along Interstate 55 through northern and central Jefferson County.

A 12-mile stretch of I-55 between Highway M at Barnhart and Highway 67 near Festus had the barriers installed last winter and this spring. That completes placement of the barriers in the most heavily populated parts of the Missouri side of the St. Louis area, MoDOT officials said.

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Yesterday I signed up Arnold Talk as a sponsor for the Jefferson County 18U Blazers baseball team.  The team plays out of Fox High School and is hoping to go to memphis, Omaha and maybe even Puerto Rico this year.  Good luck to the guys!

From their website:
The Jefferson County Blazers are committed to providing area players with a high level of competition, instruction, and exposure to help strengthen their baseball careers. While concentrating on baseball skills, the Blazers also take great pride in developing young men into the future leaders of our community. 

Sounds like a good group to be associated with.