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Bevo Mill: From Anti-Prohibition Propaganda to a Neighborhood Landmark

3 years 2 months ago
Listen to an episode about Bevo Mill on our Here’s History podcast with KDHX. While its architecture might seem like whimsical fun today, south St. Louis’s Bevo Mill was once a carefully crafted piece of propaganda in a life-and-death struggle. When early 20th century calls for the prohibition of alcohol threatened to leave the nation permanently “dry,” …
Brittany Krewson

Alton Amphitheater Commission Announces Lineup For 2022 Alton Jazz & Wine Festival

3 years 2 months ago
ALTON - Enjoy the sounds of smooth jazz and the taste of great wine as the successful Alton Jazz & Wine Festival returns to Liberty Bank Alton Amphitheater on Saturday, September 3, 2022 with gates opening at 6pm. The Alton Jazz Confluence, featuring up and coming Alton/Godfrey student musicians, will again kick off this year’s festival. Following this exciting group of future jazz stars will be The Kendrick Smith Trio. The headliners for this year’s Alton Jazz & Wine Festival will be Mardra and Reggie Thomas. “The Alton Amphitheater Commission is excited to again bring great jazz to Liberty Bank Amphitheater with this popular and growing event,” said Dan Herkert, Amphitheater Commission Chair. “We’re particularly proud to again feature some of our local student musicians at the beginning of the festival.” “We are also thrilled to bring back the intimate jazz club setting where tables will be on the stage surrounding the artists as

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Holland Construction Services Adds Three Additional Employees to Its Growing Team

3 years 2 months ago
Holland Construction Services has announced the addition of three new employees to its growing team. The new employees include Kent Richardson as Senior Virtual Design and Construction Engineer, Ashleigh Loehring as Project Administrator and Garrison West as Project Manager. “2022 has been an outstanding year of growth for Holland Construction Services despite all of the […]
Dede Hance

Aegion Corp. Acquires Boston Excavating Firm

3 years 2 months ago
From St. Louis Business Journal:  Aegion Corp., a Chesterfield-based infrastructure repair company, bought a Boston-based business that provides underground and vacuum excavation, among other services. Aegion said it has acquired Next Level Environmental, which also provides other services to manage aging infrastructure, including pipe inspections, trenchless cured-in-place pipe repairs, pipe location services, and sewer and […]
Dede Hance

Here’s how to get the hard-core homeless into homes

3 years 2 months ago
In the New York Times today, Maia Szalavitz writes about how Seattle finally tackled chronic homelessness. A few years ago Lisa Daugaard, a lawyer, developed a program called LEAD: Instead of re-incarcerating homeless people who typically already have long histories of minor arrests, police departments that participate in LEAD refer them to case management services. ...continue reading "Here’s how to get the hard-core homeless into homes"
Kevin Drum