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American Print Consultants Purchases New Facility The new 32,000sq ft facility will boast a dedicated showroom; equipment refurbish area and training classroom. The new facility will also feature expanded warehouse and office areas. May 20, 2021 Login or register now to gain instant access to the rest of this premium content! American Print Consultants (APC), a leading distributor of wide-format printers, supplies, and service, is proud to announce they have recently pur...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Brian Hendricks, a research assistant professor with the West Virginia University School of Public Healths Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics view more  Credit: WVU Photo In studying COVID-19 testing and positivity rates in West Virginia between March and September 2020, West Virginia University researchers found disparities among Black residents and residents experiencing food insecurity. Specifically, the researchers found communities with a higher Black po...

Construction has stopped completely on the new 5-story Comfort Suites hotel in Sunset Hills after the Mehlville Fire Protection District issued a stop work order on the project that has been in effect for more than two months. At press time the stop work order was still in effect at the fenced-in construction site, as confirmed by MFPD Fire Chief Ed Berkel. HR Sheevam, the owner of the Days Inn and the new Comfort Suites under construction at 3660 S. Lindbergh Blvd., submitted a new plan that a...

The Mehlville Fire Protection District moved proactively to get ahead of production delays at car factories, continuing through at least May, in order to replace an administrative vehicle on time and on schedule. Don Brown Chevrolet, which holds the state contract for the Chevy Tahoes that the fire district typically uses for its administrative vehicles for chiefs, told the fire district in January that GM has suspended the builds of all state contract vehicles due to a global microchip shortag...

Login or register now to gain instant access to the rest of this premium content! American Print Consultants, (APC) a leading distributor for wide-format inkjet and textile equipment and supplies has recently launched sales of the Shima Seiki SIP-160F3 DTG printer. “We are very excited about the Shima SIP-160F3 printer, our roots are in textile and garment printing and this printer line fits in nicely with our current equipment portfolio. We have had both models (TP and Acid) in-house for a w...

With an uncertain financial future highlighted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Mehlville Fire Protection District has a deficit budget for the first time in many years. The MFPD Board of Directors unanimously passed a $24.18 million budget for 2021 that has a $1.41 million deficit. “Not a lot went our way when developing this budget, so you’re going to see kind of a recurring theme and that’s that ‘Hey, that didn’t go our way,’” said Chief Financial Officer Brian Bond at the...

The Mehlville Fire Protection District Board of Directors unanimously approved the roughly $25,000 purchase of a new administrative truck Jan. 13, after Chief Brian Hendricks explained that the previous one was totaled in a wreck Jan. 8 on northbound Interstate 270 and Gravois Road. “One of our maintenance guys who was involved in the accident was not hurt too terribly bad. They’re a little beat up, but he’s OK,” said Hendricks. “We have heard from AAA and the vehicle is officially t...

Study broadens the definition of self-injury mortality to encompass most drug overdose deaths Classifying a death as suicide may be easiest for medical examiners and coroners in the western United States, which reports the highest suicide rates officially. Suicide by firearm is the leading method there, and usually clear in terms of evidence. By contrast, suicides by drug overdose, spurred primarily by the opioid epidemic in the remainder of the country, are less obvious to investigators. But a...

+1  Ian Rocket, professor emeritus of epidemiology in the WVU School of Public Health. Photo by WVU Broadening the definition of self-inflicted mortality to encompass most drug overdose deaths, WVU emeritus professor Ian Rockett led a study finding that the entire nation is gripped by a mental health crisis. In recent years, western states have reported more suicides but Rockett’s research revealed that many drug overdose deaths in non-w...

Classifying a death as suicide may be easiest for medical examiners and coroners in the western United States, which reports the highest suicide rates officially.