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Alton Resident WWII P.O.W. Memoir Released   

3 years 1 month ago
ALTON - The memoir of life-long Alton resident, Henry Eugene “Gene” Maul, has been released by LuLu Press, Inc. The memoir, Diary of Henry Eugene Maul, Prisoner of War , is a compilation by his eldest daughter, Diana Maul Halstead, a 1970 graduate of Alton High School. The Maul family was a fixture of Alton going back to the late 1830’s. Gene Maul was influenced and angered by the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Shortly after graduating Marquette High School, Gene enlisted in the United States Army Air Force, training to take on one of the most dangerous positions in the Air Force as a waist gunner. As a member of the 96 th Bomb Group and the 338 th Bomb Squadron he completed 8 missions before his plane was downed by enemy fire, May 8, 1944, causing him and his crew to be captured by German scouts. This diary is not a story told in the typical day-to-day accounting of time, but a visual drawing-by-drawing, poem-by-poem, note-by-note diary. Gene

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First awards gala for The Michael Brown Foundation

3 years 1 month ago
The Michael Brown Chosen For Change Foundation held their inaugural fundraiser and awards gala on Saturday, August 6, 2022 at the Marriott Hotel, near the airport in St. Louis, Missouri, three days ahead of Tuesday, August 9, 2022 which marks…

'We need help, we need more bodies': Exterminators busy as flood cleanup continues across St. Louis area

3 years 1 month ago
Much-needed help can't come soon enough for many across the St. Louis area. On top of the cleanup still happening, homeowners are now facing another problem: bugs. Exterminators told KSDK that ants are the biggest problem right now because of the moisture that's still on the ground. The ants are ending up in people's homes because they are looking for the driest place to camp out. Now that the water is out of neighborhoods, the bugs are coming in. Utility trucks and unwanted household items are…
Mercedes Mackay, KSDK

Missouri man's summer consumed by wildfire

3 years 1 month ago
STELLA, Mo. — It's prime wildfire season in the western United States, which requires firefighters and paramedics from all fifty states to help extinguish. Here in Missouri, there's one man living locally that answers the call for help out west: Levi Clymer from Stella. Most of the year, Levi Clymer works as a firefighter for [...]
Dustin Lattimer

Two Dozen Texas Cities Latest To Try And Push A Netflix Tax

3 years 1 month ago
Hungry to boost municipal budgets, a growing roster of states and cities have spent the last five years or so trying to implement a tax on Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services. Sometimes (like in Chicago) this has involved expanding an existing amusement tax (traditionally covering book stores, music stores, ball games and other brick and mortar […]
Karl Bode

St. Charles businesses rebuilding from July's historic flash flooding

3 years 1 month ago
Heavy rain is in the forecast again and it's not waiting for businesses to get back on their feet. July 26's historic flash flooding left an enormous mess in its wake. Businesses in the Elm Point neighborhood of St. Charles are basically rebuilding. Yes, the outside of their shops are fine, but the inside is a different story. When Cole Creek overran its banks it free flowed into Sugarfire Smoke House and Elm Point Animal Hospital. "The picnic tables were floating out on Elm," Sugarfire's Maintenance…
Tracy Hinson, KSDK