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Brentwood Police Department on Monday “quickly and safely resolved” what appeared to be a found grenade.
Maplewood City Council on Tuesday approved purchasing police cameras and radar units, renovating the bus stop on Manchester Road at Yale, proceeding with a bike (or scooter) sharing program, and submitting a grant for backyard composting units.
This is the fourth post of original images that William Lyman Thomas collected and used in his magnificent “History of St. Louis County, Missouri”. We have a rare opportunity to examine these images that he assembled into his final two volume set in 1911. I am again including images made of the backs of these photographs. I think it is especially interesting to see his notations and instructions to the printer.
A resident reported that police cars were at Taco Bell Sunday evening.
Better Together representative, Will Krueger, spoke at last week’s Richmond Heights Council meeting, listing reasons for a merger and what it would accomplish. The city plans to host a public forum on the proposed merger at next week’s meeting, April 15, 7:30 p.m. at The Heights.
Two candidates for Maplewood city council who won re-election posted on Facebook. One who lost to an incumbent also posted.
“The boys sat in a circle on the porch of Doug and Tom’s house. The pale blue painted ceiling mirrored the blue of the October sky.” So begins Chapter Fifteen of Ray Bradbury’s “Farewell Summer”. I don’t know when I first became aware of blue porch ceilings. There were no porch ceilings on the house where I was raised. I built the porch ceilings on the house I have lived in for the last 43 years. I painted them blue.
The ranking review website Niche has named Richmond Heights and Brentwood as numbers 12 and 13, respectively, as “Best Places to Raise a Family in Missouri.”
After the city of Brentwood’s waste processor closed its recycling center on last year, the City of Brentwood had to find another materials recycling facility. In the time that followed, it appeared to a city employee (who contacted 40 South) that the city was simply taking all the residents’ recycling to the dump.
Voters in Maplewood and Richmond Heights elected all women on the ballots Tuesday in municipal elections.
Brentwood voters on Tuesday approved the city’s Proposition B, a half-cent sales tax to go toward a flood mitigation plan along Manchester Road. More than 75 percent of voters approved the proposition.
Brentwood resident, Robin Duntze, asked Brentwood aldermen Andy Leahy, Steve Lochmoeller, and David Dimmitt questions by email about the city’s recycling program and a 4-month period in which the city’s recycling process was in limbo. Leahy responded to Duntze’s letter on Tuesday.
Demolition work is going on at 7376 Manchester Road — the unoccupied corner at Manchester Road and Sutton Boulevard (previously a piano bar). Property owner, Red Brick, is doing the work, not a new tenant.