Jan Bremerkamp of Arnold said her dog, Bullet, finds comfort in his stuffed animals. Read more
Jody Huster of Imperial took top honors in the annual “Show Off Your Grandkids” contest with a snapshot of her 2-year-old granddaughter, Miah Grace, taken on May 15.
The Festus High Jazz Band put a swingin' exclamation point on the 2021-2022 concert season by performing their annual concert on May 10. The nine-song set featured 22 solo performances, including a vocal turn on "Feeling Good" by choir director Christopher Boemler.
The Festus High School Freshman, Concert and Symphonic bands closed out their 2021-2022 concert season May 3 with an ambitious program that included a medley of Henry Mancini classics ("Pink Panther" theme, anyone?), "Star Wars" music (on the eve of May 4, Star Wars Day) and a collection of …
Students from the Festus High School Theater Department are presenting their third play of the school year, "Exposed!" a comedy that, in eight separate acts, promises to tell the real story behind beloved characters, both fictional and real. Was Charles Dickens a frustrated stand-up comic? D…
Here are the nearly 100 submissions to the Leader's Mother-Daughter Look-alike Contest.
Jerry Cox of Hillsboro won the Leader's 2022 Way to Go travel photo contest with his photo of Horseshoe Canyon on Lake Powell in Arizona.
The Festus High School bands -- the Freshman, Concert and Symphonic outfits -- gave their second performance in the new Festus R-6 Performing Arts Center with a preview of their programs in this week's state Music Festival on Friday, which was April Fool's Day. And while the program was shor…
The curtain lifted Thursday on the first Festus High School Speech and Theater Program's production in the new Festus R-6 Performing Arts Center, "Annie."
The Festus R-6 School District's sparkling new Performing Arts Center had its first concert Tuesday (Feb. 22) with the Freshman, Concert and Symphonic bands each getting in a program that warmed the hearts of the audience while temperatures were dropping rapidly outside. Band members - and b…