December 11, 2019
By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com The Loop Trolley will shut down at the end of the year, but Missouri-Illinois transit agency Bi-State is looking into whether it can take over the derailed trolley line. The trolley came with a $52 million price tag and high hopes from its biggest cheerleader, Delmar Loop business owner
[ Read More ]By Erin Achenbach Staff Reporter eachenbach@callnewspapers.com Sunset Hills saw a $4.5 million increase in taxable sales from 2017 to 2018, but the city is still facing challenges from a loss of brick-and-mortar stores and an increase in internet sales. City Administrator Eric Sterman said in his budget presentation to the aldermen Nov. 12 that Sunset
[ Read More ]By Erin Achenbach Staff Reporter eachenbach@callnewspapers.com Residents in the South County area may have noticed that their tap water has a strange taste this week, but the reason is temporary and nothing to be alarmed about. Heavy rains last week affected source water characteristics and water treatment, Missouri American Water told The Call. The rain
[ Read More ]By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com Just as St. Louis Lambert International Airport saw one of its busiest travel weeks of the year, a St. Louis County commission decided not to inject the county into the debate on airport privatization — at least for now. The St. Louis County Port Authority is a state-created county
[ Read More ]The St. Louis Aquarium at Union Station will open on Christmas. Special Christmas Day hours will be from noon until 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 25, the aquarium announced Wednesday. Timed admission tickets will go on sale at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4 at www.stlouisaquarium.com. As construction continued this year, owners of the new aquarium had promised
[ Read More ]By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com So far the process that could potentially lead to the privatization of the St. Louis airport is mostly a mystery, with the city of St. Louis’ closed-door discussions leading to calls by neighboring officials for greater regional control of a St. Louis-wide asset. Although the airport is physically located
[ Read More ]The first-ever Oakville Community Holiday Crawl will take place Sunday, Dec. 1 from noon to 4 p.m. at various businesses up and down Telegraph Road, from south of Interstate 255 to the Meramec River. Over 25 businesses have committed to participate in the “small-business crawl” up and down stores along Telegraph, south of I-255 and
[ Read More ]By Erin Achenbach Staff Reporter eachenbach@callnewspapers.com Pretzel Pretzel, the pretzel shop that earned a devoted following since it debuted in Affton in 2017, will be moving to a new storefront in the former Pizza Hut building on Tesson Ferry Road sometime early next year. Partners Anthony Simmons and Amber Scurlock operated Pretzel Pretzel’s first location
[ Read More ]Pictured above: rendering of the proposed Affton Plaza food truck garden. By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com Missouri’s first food truck garden will be coming to St. Louis next year, overcoming objections from some of its neighbors in Affton with St. Louis County Council approval. As first reported by The Call, developers of the Affton
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