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The Métis Cultural Festival in Choteau June 7-9 brought far-flung families together to celebrate the food, traditions and music of these descendants of European trappers and traders who intermarried with

The Choteau Chamber of Commerce Christmas Stroll, with the theme “A Candy Land Christmas,” is set for Dec. 2 with many participating stores and special events throughout the day.

The Gephardt Institute recently celebrated this year's Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award honorees. The award recognizes WashU community members whose efforts reflect their, and the university's, commitment to St. Louis.

With 20 aircraft in its predominately Bombardier fleet, the group anticipates record sales across the business for 2022, with consolidated group revenues of more than €120m. Revenues for charter and MRO have each increased by more than 30% compared with the same time last year. This latest news comes as FAI’s operations face the challenge of high fuel prices.

Ever since launching the program at Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in Pacific in 2014, Rob Henke and Barbara Baumgartner have been passionate leaders of the Washington University Prison Education Project. Dozens of individuals have taken the program’s Wash U-taught courses while incarcerated, and in the past two years, those efforts have started to pay off in the form of earned college degrees.

Washington University A stack of Washington University diplomas awaits recipients at the Prison Education Project commencement in 2019 at the Eastern Correctional Center in Pacific, Missouri. Beginning this fall, incarcerated women in Missouri will have the opportunity to work towards earning a degree from Washington University. Wash U. announced this week that its Prison Education Project won a $980,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to start its first women’s prison educatio...

Two-year $980,000 award to support education access, social justice in two prisons Students at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in Pacific, Mo., in 2017. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University) April 19, 2021 SHARE Washington University in St. Louis’ Prison Education Project (PEP) has won a two-year $980,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The award resulted from the Mellon Foundation’s “Future of Higher Learning in Prison” competition.  “This has been quit...