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Saint Louis Public Schools temporarily suspends bus service for 8 schools

2 years 7 months ago
Saint Louis Public Schools are rerouting some of their bus services with the new school year beginning Aug. 22. SLPS announced Monday the move will suspend routes to eight schools for the first few weeks of the school year and aims to get more bus drivers on the road. SLPS said the district is removing the schools from the routing schedule and will provide alternative transportation, to those 3,450 students. β€œAt least for the first few weeks of school, we are providing Metro Link bus passes (or…
Corey Miller and Robert Townsend, KSDK

Small Business Administration opens business recovery center in St. Louis

2 years 7 months ago
Business owners across the St. Louis area are getting some much needed help, after this summer's historic flooding damaged many of their livelihoods. The Small Business Administration (SBA) opened up a recovery center at the Urban League in St. Louis on Monday that will be open daily through Friday. It's help that business owners said they've been waiting for and desperately need. Melissa Ingram has to relive every single lost item that flood waters took away from her business, as she looks to…
Mercedes Mackay, KSDK

Johnson & Johnson to stop selling talc-based baby powder

2 years 7 months ago
Johnson & Johnson announced that it will eliminate talc-based baby powder from its product portfolio worldwide by 2023 and transition to producing and selling only cornstarch-based baby powder. β€œWe continuously evaluate and optimize our portfolio to best position the business for long-term growth,” the company said in a statement announcing the discontinuation. β€œThis transition will help simplify our product offerings, deliver sustainable innovation, and meet the needs of our consumers, customers…
Anne Stych

A growing innovation district: 39 North celebrates its 5th anniversary

2 years 7 months ago
This year we celebrate the fifth anniversary of 39 North, our 600-acre innovation district located in the heart of agriculture. Anchored by the Danforth Center, BRDG Park, the Helix Center Incubator, Bayer Crop Science, Benson Hill and the Yield Lab accelerator, 39 North sits at the center of it all: agriculture, bioscience, big data, geospatial technology and logistics. Since its inception in 2017, 39 North has experienced significant growth. St. Louis is home to over 1,000 plant science PhDs and…
39 North

Foss Swim School adding 2 St. Louis-area locations, closing 1 due to flooding

2 years 7 months ago
Foss Swim School, a Minnesota-based swim school operator, plans to add two St. Louis-area locations, after shuttering a third due to recent flooding. Foss said it was forced to permanently close its Little Fishes Swim School location in Brentwood, which "was damaged beyond repair" by flooding that hit the St. Louis area July 26, according to a Facebook post. Families enrolled at Little Fishes Brentwood were given credit to transfer to any Foss location, officials said this week. Foss acquired Little…
Diana Barr

This Clayton private equity executive wanted to buy his own firm. Here's why he now owns a roofing company.

2 years 7 months ago
After nearly four years of working at Clayton-based private equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners, Stefan Sigurdson in December 2020 wanted to put his career experience in banking and private equity to use as a business owner. A year-and-a-half search to acquire a business wrapped up this summer with the purchase of a long-standing local company.
Nathan Rubbelke