December 15, 2019
By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com St. Louis County is dumping one of its trash providers following numerous service complaints in South County and across multiple County Council districts. The county and Meridian Waste have finalized a mutual agreement to terminate their current contract to provide waste collection services, effective Jan. 1, 2020, the county
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Assistant U.S. Attorney Hal Goldsmith, left, talks to St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Jacob Barker after the ethics town hall Monday at Kol Rinah in University City. Barker was mentioned in Goldsmith’s indictment of former County Executive Steve Stenger, as Stenger tried to dodge Barker’s questions about a phony contract with businessman John Rallo
[ Read More ]Pictured above: St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, left, and police Chief Jon Belmar speak at a press conference after the February trial of Trenton Forster, who was convicted of first-degree murder for killing Officer Blake Snyder. Photo by Gloria Lloyd. By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com St. Louis County officials are trying to
[ Read More ]Then-Concord Republican Committeeman Tony Pousosa presides over a meeting of the Concord-Lemay Republican Club in July 2018. Photo by Jessica Belle Kramer. By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com Green Park will get a new alderman this week after one of the city’s most recognizable aldermen resigned his two political positions and moved out of the
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Mehlville Board of Education member Jean Pretto and CFO Marshall Crutcher discuss the 2020 budget during an insurance committee meeting June 5, 2019 at Mehlville High School. Photo by Jessica Belle Kramer. By Erin Achenbach Staff Reporter eachenbach@callnewspapers.com The Mehlville Board of Education will consider rolling back tax rates when it meets for its annual
[ Read More ]Pictured above: The proposed location of the St. Louis Bomber’s rugby park. Rendering courtesy of the St. Louis Bombers. By Erin Achenbach Staff Reporter eachenbach@callnewspapers.com The Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen approved an amended development plan for the St. Louis Bombers Rugby Football Club last week to build a rugby complex on the southeast corner
[ Read More ]Steve Stenger, right, and his lawyer Scott Rosenblum leave the Thomas F. Eagleton Courthouse in downtown St. Louis following Stenger’s sentencing Friday, Aug. 9. Stenger was sentenced to 46 months in prison and will report Sept. 21. Photo by Erin Achenbach. By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com Steve Stenger served four years as county executive,
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Magna Visual as seen Tuesday, July 2. Photo by Erin Achenbach. By Erin Achenbach Staff Reporter eachenbach@callnewspapers.com Lindbergh Schools says that its purchase of another landmark property in South County could prevent it from having to one day build a seventh elementary school — but not everyone in Crestwood is happy that the district
[ Read More ]By Erin Achenbach Staff Reporter eachenbach@callnewspapers.com It was plagued by complications and delays, but the Gravois and Musick intersection is completely open, eight months past its scheduled completion date. The intersection fully opened Friday, Aug. 30, nine months after its scheduled completion date of December 2018. The project faced a series of setbacks, first when
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Bill Miller, right, exits the Thomas F. Eagleton Courthouse in downtown St. Louis with his lawyer, Larry Hale, left, after being sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in former County Executive Steve Stenger’s felony pay-to-play schemes, Friday, Sept. 6. Miller pleaded guilty in June to one county of aiding and
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