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The former Applebee’s on Maplewood Commons Drive was being demolished on Monday to make way for a car wash, according to a sign on the site.
In the news recently: a store selling St. Louis themed clothing opens in The Boulevard, MSD’s giant tunnel progresses, and the St. Louis American runs an obituary of an Maplewood Richmond Heights graduate.
Nikylan Knapper, Maplewood’s first African American mayor, was sworn in Tuesday evening outside Maplewood City Hall, joined by her family, and approximately 75 masked supporters watching from the parking lot below.
Brentwood Citizens for Responsible Government recently published an open letter in The Pulse to the Brentwood community about the city’s “checkered” history with employee compensation.
Heirloom tomatoes and peppers! Fragrant flowering and culinary herbs! Stone Spiral puts them out for sale starting Saturday April 24, safe from frost and ready for rays.
In the news: a Maplewood man was reported murdered, Sunnen Apartments to expand, and an MRH grad scores the opening goal in a game for St. Louis Community College.
According to a press release from Maplewood Public Library: it has been selected as one of 517 libraries to participate in Libraries Transforming Communities: Focus on Small and Rural Libraries, an American Library Association (ALA) initiative that helps library workers better serve their small and/or rural communities.
Schlafly stopped sponsoring the farmers market previously held on its lot in Maplewood in February last year, so now it has become vendor-owned and renamed S.O.L. Food Farmers Market. S.O.L., standing for Sustainable, Organic, Local.
In my previous post about the Air Force Academy Chapel, mostly fabricated at two Maplewood companies, Mississippi Valley Structural Steel and Cupples Products Company, I expressed regret that while researching my first Maplewood history book I had not been able to interview anyone who worked at either of those places. That turned out to be a good thing to mention as it was seen by the son of a man who had worked at Cupples. His name is Robert Myers.
Maplewood resident Bob Weidenbenner kicked off his trash-a-thon to benefit Joe’s Place, and Cornerstone Center in the Shaw neighborhood last July. He’s raised more than $2500 for the charities so far he reports in an update.
Maplewood Mayor-Elect Nikylan Knapper reached out to the MapleGOOD group to post a short survey to help her to prioritize the issues facing the city. She also agreed to have it posted on 40 South to reach as many residents as possible. (Update: the survey is now closed, per the website)
Maplewood City Council on Tuesday passed a resolution to authorize a special election for the vacant seat of Ward 2 Councilmember Eleanor Pardini, who resigned her post for personal reasons on Friday, April 9, 2021. The special election will be held August 3.