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But all of us learned a great deal along the way about our profession, about the middle east, and about the promise of american leadership. Through sams remarkable journey and my own checkered thirtythree year career in the foreign service, i have learned that the middle east is a place where pessimists seldom lack for either company or validation, where skeptics hardly ever seem wrong. It is a place where american policymakers often learn humility the hard way, a place where you can most easily...

QUINCY — Marching bands from Illinois, Missouri and Iowa will participate in Saturday’s 27th Octoberfest Invitational Parade and Field Competition in Quincy.

The Quincy Senior High School Marching Blue Devils captured runner-up honors in Class 3A on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, at the Maple Leaf Classic in Geneseo, Illinois.

HANNIBAL — Darren Lillard was once a student marching down Broadway in Hannibal’s Band Day leading the Clark County High School Marching Band as a drum major.

For the four oldest children of Natalie and Jeff Duffy, a weeklong adventure at Camp Howard seemed a dream beyond grasp. Quinn, the oldest of the Duffys’