40 South is 4 years old: top posts, some obituaries

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Doug Miner
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40 South News went online approximately four years ago — October 2013. These are the 30 most popular posts since then out of the more than four thousand total (almost three million page views). One new post broke the top 10 this year: the lifeguard firings over their use of a private messaging app.

Numbers 1, 2, and 4 stayed at the top — at the time most likely helped on by online sharing beyond our area.

Number 5 — the news of Chick-fil-A replacing Macaroni Grill, was thanks to then-Brentwood mayor Pat Kelly spilling the beans in a mayor’s coffee.

Number 6, the story of a once homeless man, was thanks to a story about him published by BJC.

Numbers 7, 8, and 9 are Maplewood restaurant news, always popular. Numbers 14, 16 and 19 are also about planned Maplewood restaurants.

The top 30:

  1. Locomotive to steam through Maplewood (10-11-16)
  2. Strange Donuts moves to buy the Rams (1-9-15)
  3. Maplewood Aquatic Center lifeguards fired over social media use (7-13-17)
  4. Brentwood business closing: power tools on clearance (8-4-16)
  5. Chick-fil-A to replace Macaroni Grill: Brentwood mayor (9-29-14)
  6. BJC Behavioral Health helps homeless man off the streets in Brentwood (4-24-14)
  7. ‘Hooters-like’ restaurant set to open in Maplewood (1-4-16)
  8. Gus’s Fried Chicken signs Maplewood lease (2-18-15)
  9. Sushi, ramen, yakitori bar set to take Church’s Chicken location (12-2-14)
  10. Maureen Saunders to withdraw from election (2-12-16)
  11. Maplewood History: The Top Ten Things You Never Knew About Maplewood’s Big Bang (2-28-15)
  12. Brentwood resident livid after city cuts down oak (12-26-16)
  13. Schaefer Shell loses lease, to close this month (2-16-16)
  14. New restaurant concept planned for former A Pizza Story location (9-14-16)
  15. Richmond Heights couple buys Woodside (6-16-16)
  16. A Pizza Story closing; new owners to open Smitty’s Food & Drink (11-13-16)
  17. House remains at Menards site: under litigation (6-5-14)
  18. Brentwood mayoral candidates face crowd, answer questions: video (3-27-15)
  19. McDonald’s announces plan for Manchester and Big Bend (12-17-14)
  20. Rush-hour protest planned for Brentwood Boulevard & Eager (7-27-17)
  21. Hotel planned for Richmond Heights; Menards outbuilding update (2-3-16)
  22. Flamingos invade Richmond Heights neighborhood (7-24-14)
  23. New York Times: Maplewood part of legal system that led to Ferguson (8-29-14)
  24. Ryan Hummert sculpture installed (7-13-16)
  25. Menards opening date set: it’s tentative (11-16-15)
  26. Woman struck, killed while crossing Clayton Road (9-5-16)
  27. New shop: “Quality Goods for a Homegrown Life” (2-15-15)
  28. Recent MRH grad dies: ‘fell from a balcony’ (3-30-17)
  29. Car crashes through Richmond Heights living room (7-11-16)
  30. Fresh tacos, enchiladas soon at independently-owned shop (5-15-14)

Also, some obituaries that appeared in 40 South News, mostly in 2017.

 

 

 

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