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A Maplewood Schnucks employee tested positive for COVID-19, according to an email from Schnucks sent out at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 4. The employee last worked at the store on Wednesday, June 3.
Included in my previous post, Cora Clamorgan – Part One, was a copy of one of the earliest articles I was able to find on this unfortunate subject which is the Clamorgan family having been found to have some negro blood and the repercussions thereafter. That article appeared in the Seventh Edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on June 9, 1911.
Maplewood Design and Review Board on Thursday is set to consider proposed designs for new homes at 7396 Flora Avenue and 7272 Sarah Avenue. Both properties are empty lots. See the meeting agenda including the house designs, here: D&R staff report
Jason Goldkamp, a candidate for Maplewood City Council, Ward 1 in 2022, according to an email, speaks out against a Missouri State bill.
Those of you who were in the audience for one of the performances of the Maplewood-themed, Shakespearean mashup, “Remember Me”, experienced a rare and delightful event. If you haven’t heard anything about this play, let me say, my wife and I were stunned by the very high quality of the production. It was wonderful…everything from the 10 foot high puppets to the live music. Put together by the very talented theater department of St. Louis U, it was a three-of-a-kind event that took place over three nights of one weekend in September 2016 and is unlikely to be repeated ever.
In the news: A child in Richmond Heights ate up their parents’ marijuana stash, and a RH man was killed in a boat explosion on Lake of the Ozarks. Also, an MRH football lineman was named to All-Decade team.
The Dubliner has closed its doors permanently, due to the Covid-19 quarantine. What should take its place?
Maplewood resident Cary Colman played and sang jazz standards last Friday afternoon for her neighbors on Flora Avenue — all keeping a good distance from each other.
Large trees were taken down on Maple Avenue in Maplewood Thursday to make way for sidewalks, a resident reported.
Newspapers.com is packed full of interesting information. It is very easy to get sidetracked while using it as a source for your research. Often I discover something very interesting but completely unrelated to Maplewood. For quite awhile I’ve had the idea of doing a blog post about some of these unrelated items. This post features an advertisement I stumbled across that nearly caused me to do a backflip.
Restaurants PF Chang’s and The Dubliner closed, a Richmond Heights man employed as a Registered Nurse in Farmington, MO passed on, and more in the news.
Candidate for Maplewood Ward 2 Sarah Crosley has written a letter to Maplewood residents. The election is June 2.
Stone Spiral [2500 Sutton Blvd, Maplewood] is serving walkup beverage orders, mornings 9 a.m. to noon. Latte, mocha, tea and more at the safe and healthy distance. CASH ONLY PLEASE.