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The Festus High School band program presented its annual holiday concert Monday (Dec. 6), with hopes that Santa will gift them a brand-new Performing Arts Center for the coming year.
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The Festus High School theater students are presenting their first play of the 2021-2022 school year, and they tackled a challenge: William Shakespeare's classic "The Twelfth Night."
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It was the night before the night before All Hallow's Eve, and all through Tiger Stadium, there were members of the Festus Marching Tigers dressed up as... well, you name it! Although there were a bunch of bananas (nine to be exact), characters of all sort filled the field for pregame and ha…
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The Festus High Marching Tigers completed the regular-season schedule on Friday (Oct. 22) by performing its full program of "Love Is" songs, even in the face of a very emotional senior night for the band.
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The Festus High concert and jazz bands kicked off the concert season Tuesday (Oct. 20) with a setlist that included a little bit of everything, from Australian folk songs to marches to a medley of Western movie songs in the first half, and then when the spotlight turned to the Jazz Band, it …
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When a drenching shower came their way during the first half of Festus High's game against Farmington on Friday (Oct. 15), the Marching Tigers didn't flinch, although many huddled for temporary refuge under the few available umbrellas. But the skies cleared in time for the band to take the f…
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Sandwiched between marching in two homecoming parades in less than 24 hours -- the Festus High celebration on Friday (Oct. 8) and then the University of Missouri's procession on Saturday morning, the Festus High Marching Tigers did what they do best -- entertain the crowd at the school's foo…
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The Festus High Marching Tigers had to get up early on Saturday (Oct. 9) to participate in this year's University of Missouri Homecoming Parade - the buses departed Festus at 4:30 a.m. and hit Columbia as the sun came up. But once the parade started, the Marching Tigers were wide awake and i…
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The Festus High School Marching Tigers unveiled their 2021 halftime show, "Love Is" at the season-opening football game Friday (Aug. 27) but the scenario, with high temperatures and even higher humidity, recalled the 1972 Neil Diamond live album, "Hot August Night." Still, the Marching Tiger…
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The three Festus High School bands concluded their 2020-2021 concert schedule Tuesday (May 4), which is "Star Wars Day." (As in "May the Fourth be with you," for the uninitiated) with a varied program that included selections from John Williams movie scores ("Star Wars," "Raiders of the Lost…
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The Festus High School theater program presented its spring musical, "The Fantasticks," and the production lived up to the name. The eight-member cast showed off its singing, dancing and acting skills on the world’s longest-running musical. The original off-Broadway show ran for 42 years, cl…
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With state large group competition nearing, the three bands at Festus High School gave a preview of the material they'll submit at a concert on Tuesday (March 30).
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What happens when a mysterious stranger appears among a bunch of snowbound small-town teenagers? That's the premise of "Snow Angel," a comedy-drama play staged by the theater department at Festus High School. Photos were taken during the final dress rehearsal; the play continues at 7 p.m. Fr…
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A cast and crew of about 70 Festus Middle School students are presenting "Shrek Jr. The Musical," an expansion of the classic animated movie. The play script gives a little back story into the ogre's early years, and adds some catchy songs along the way. But the comedic tale of Shrek and Don…
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After seeing last year's holiday band concert canceled, the Festus High School band program wasn't about to make it two in a row. Enacting social distancing protocols in the stands, limiting attendance, requiring face masks (almost everyone in the audience complied) and splitting the night i…
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Due to a scheduling quirk in this year's high school football season, the Festus Marching Tigers completed their regular-season home schedule for fall 2020 on Friday (Oct. 2) with four performances in the last four weeks. The Tigers' football team takes to the road for the last three weeks o…
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It was the annual Homecoming game on Friday (Sept. 18), but with no parade, no halftime coronation of the queen and king, what's a marching band to do? The Festus Marching Tigers broke out by putting motion into the first song in their salute to the music of Motown, with more to come.
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The Festus Marching Tigers traditionally take one pre-season practice under the lights at Tiger Stadium, but this year, a scheduling conflict necessitated the band's final run-through on Thursday (Sept. 3) under the bright sunlight of late afternoon. The Marching Tigers perfected their entra…
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The Festus High School Marching Tigers band started the new season -- one that will be like no other -- on Friday (Sept. 4) as the Tigers tamed Sullivan in their home opener. While some procedures changed, and some traditions were put on the back burner, the Marching Tigers forged ahead, and…
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A humorous meme made the rounds of Facebook in the early days of the pandemic that pictured a marching band with the caption "Band directors could solve COVID. They know about distancing and keeping hands off your face." This summer, in high school marching band camps around the county, band…
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There was no pomp and circumstance, but members of the Class of 2020 got a little recognition Friday (May 29) as they assembled for the first time since mid-March (albeit socially distant, in vehicles) and paraded down Main Street before friends and well-wishers.
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The last day of school usually comes with some smiles, some tears, some hugs... but in this most different of school years, the last day comes with social distancing, face masks and books and bags passed through car windows. The scene Wednesday (May 27) at Festus Intermediate School and Fest…
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Ten months after his passing, 7-year-old Jackson Schmitt and his family have made an immense impact in the Jefferson/St. Louis area to raise funds for child cancer research.
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The luncheon, formerly named the Black History Luncheon, drew over 500 people for its 25th anniversary.
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With the annual holiday concert canceled due to bad weather, the Festus High School bands gave their first public performances since the high school football season ended (well, there was the Twin City Christmas Parade). The Freshman, Concert and Symphonic bands made up for lost time with a …
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The Festus Middle School Tiger Talent theater program is presenting the musical, “Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr.” through Saturday at Festus Middle School, 1717 W. Main St.
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The show will run from Feb. 27-29 at Windsor’s newly remodeled theater.
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Everything was on the line and these photos show the wrestlers’ determination to make it to state.
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See these shots of fierce competition among wrestlers trying to make it to the state tournament, set for this weekend.
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