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Aldermen debate multi-family zoning

Aldermen debate multi-family zoning

By Ellie Marshall, Staff Reporter November 1, 2023

Tensions were high at the Oct. 10 Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen meeting as a petition for a text amendment to amend the text of the Sunset Hills Unified Development Ordinance to create a new multi-family...

Public meeting scheduled on Sunset Hills West Watson improvement project

Public meeting scheduled on Sunset Hills West Watson improvement project

November 4, 2022

Sunset Hills is hosting a public meeting Nov. 15 to discuss improvements to West Watson Road and the installation of a trail/sidewalk along one side of West Watson. Sunset Hills was awarded a grant to...

County Planning hears special business permit to operate business out of residential home in Affton

County Planning hears special business permit to operate business out of residential home in Affton

By Lucas Irizarry, Staff Reporter April 6, 2022

The St. Louis County Planning Commission heard a plan March 29 for a special business permit at Gravois Road and Vasel Drive. The plan would convert a home at the site into a Farmer’s Insurance location....

Motorcyclist who died in crash on Gravois Road loved deeply and fought fiercely, family says

Motorcyclist who died in crash on Gravois Road ‘loved deeply and fought fiercely,’ family says

May 5, 2021

A motorcyclist who was killed in a crash Saturday on Gravois Road in Affton was a Lindbergh High graduate who "loved deeply and fought fiercely," his family said in his obituary. Justin Beger, 25, who...

Self-storage facility proposed along Gravois Road

Self-storage facility proposed along Gravois Road

January 23, 2021

A self-storage facility in Sappington, a new 26-acre subdivision in Oakville, a new QuikTrip at the corner of Lindbergh and Lemay Ferry and a new construction company office on South County Center Way...

Above: A rendering of the Affton Southwest Precinct.

New Affton Southwest Precinct will move forward, Trakas says

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor October 14, 2020

The St. Louis County Council learned last week that the county scuttled plans for a new county police precinct in South County to build the new North County Precinct instead, but 6th District Councilman...

Chase looks to add ATMs in South County; zoning hearing tonight

Chase looks to add ATMs in South County; zoning hearing tonight

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor August 10, 2020

Three freestanding Chase bank ATMs could be built in St. Louis County if the bank gets zoning approval after a public hearing tonight. Residents can attend a videoconferenced public hearing on the ATMs...

Dinner-goers visit 9 Mile Garden, a food truck garden in Affton July 2020.

Food truck plaza 9 Mile Garden reopens Wednesday with indoor bar closed, more masks and expanded hours

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor August 10, 2020

Missouri’s first food truck garden 9 Mile Garden will reopen Wednesday after shutting down July 30 as, spurred by rising cases of COVID-19, St. Louis County imposed new business restrictions on late-night...

Workers get ready to fill in dirt from Missouri American Water’s water main replacement project near Fatima Drive and Kammerer Avenue in Affton. The project was part of the water utility comany’s plan to replace 224,000 feet of water main this year, approximately 42 miles of the 4,500 miles of main that the company oversees.

Missouri American replacing water mains in $1.5 million project along Eddie and Park

April 14, 2020

Missouri American Water is still replacing aging water mains during the coronavirus crisis and over the next several weeks will spend roughly $1.5 million for a project getting underway in South County. Roughly...

Shawn Overstreet

Valley Park man charged with two burglaries in South County

January 22, 2020

A Valley Park man was charged Friday with two burglaries in South County in November. Shawn Overstreet, 48, of the 300 block of Jefferson Avenue in Valley Park, was charged with two counts of second-degree...

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