KCUR 89.3 As spring weather kicks in, live music calendars in Kansas City are filling up faster than they have in a year. Here, a crowd watches the jazz and hip hop group Brass and Boujee perform outside Union Station.
Many cautiously optimistic music lovers are venturing out for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic put the live music industry in critical condition.
As afternoon turned to evening on Friday, Shenya Robinson and two friends sat in lawn chairs under the skybridge in the shadow of Union Station.
It was Robinson’s birthday, and she celebrated with her first live concert since the COVID-19 pandemic changed nearly everything for everybody.
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LEJA, RPTA and Military Science to offer virtual open houses April 17
WIU University Relations
MACOMB Western Illinois University s departments of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration (LEJA), Recreation, Park and Tourism Administration (RPTA) and Military Science invite prospective students and their families to learn about these programs, and opportunities to Become a Hero.
The Become a Hero in-person and virtual open houses will take place from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 17. The day s activities will be offered face-to-face (limited capacity due to COVID-19 restrictions) and virtually over Zoom (with one exception - the use of the range) for those who register.
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Introducing candidates for April’s election
By Steven Barnum, Correspondent
McDONOUGH COUNTY The League of Women Voters of McDonough County organized a virtual forum where candidates for local offices introduced themselves and spoke about why they are running.
Tri States Public Radio News Director Rich Egger moderated the forum, which included candidates for park board, library board, school board, Spoon River College Board of Trustees, and city council.
Macomb City Council:
Two candidates are competing to replace Fifth Ward Ald. Gayle Carper, who decided not to run for another term. Those candidates are Ashley Katz and Caren Bordowitz.
Bordowitz is a graphic designer in university relations at Western Illinois University. She said that she wants to use her organizational and relationship-building skills to give back to the community.