ALTON - The Flock Food Truck Park at the corner of Ridge Street and Landmarks in Alton makes its debut at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 12. The Flock Food Truck Park owner and staff made final preparations for the opening on Wednesday. Laura Windisch, one of the owners, with her husband, Matt, said she couldn't be more excited than she is to open the doors on Thursday. "We will have a cocktail bar and have food trucks periodically, and we will have a schedule we will post for customers," she said. "We are really excited. There have been a lot of hands in this." Alton Works has also been a major player in bringing the food truck park to reality, Laura said. This week's schedule begins from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m Thursday with Homestyle Grill as a food truck provider. From 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Pig on a Wing, T&S Smokehouse, Taqueria Los Reyes, and Homestyle Grill will be at the park. The Flock Bar will open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday. Flock's new signature house-crafted cocktails,
BELLEVILLE – The Father McGivney Catholic High School girls soccer team finished a good regular season to their standards going 12-7-1. They began postseason play Wednesday night (May 11) against the Roxana Shells. The Griffins were victorious 5-2. Scoring two goals on the night, both from a couple of delightful direct freekicks, was freshman defender Devin Ellis. Ellis is a Byron, Carlson, Petri and Kalp LLC Female Athlete of the Month for the Griffins. It was her first high school post-season game, but she said she wasn’t nervous. “I just wanted to come in strong so we could advance,” Ellis said. “We beat them twice before and I knew they were going to come out strong, so I just had to prepare and be ready.” She was ready alright. She scored the first goal of the game in the 17 th minute. She stepped up to the freekick from about 20 yards out and curled it in off her right foot off the post and in. But more was yet to come. She scored the fina
Tensions between Republican senators frayed further Wednesday after a filibuster dealt a potentially fatal blow to a wide-ranging health care bill. Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Bill Eigel, R-Weldon Spring, spent nearly two hours reading the bill, sponsored by Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder, R-Sikeston, line by line, decrying the size it had grown to and “all the […]
ST. LOUIS - A decades-long storyteller and voice of St. Louis is signing off for good Thursday. It's the end of an era at KMOX Radio. Charlie Brennan is hanging up the mic after nearly 34 years on the air. He announced in March that it was time for him to move on. Brennan came to St. Louis in September 1988 and [...]
Centene Stadium (St. Louis) – Wikipedia, the soccer stadium finishing up construction now, is reshaping the Downtown West neighborhood. This got me thinking about a vacant parcel just south of the stadium, next to the former YMCA that became a Drury Hotel in the 1980s. The official address is ...
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Listen to an episode about Tom Turpin on our Here’s History podcast with KDHX. For music lovers who came through St. Louis in the early 20th century, there was only one place in town to go: Tom Turpin’s Rosebud Café. This sprawling bar and nightclub was located on Market Street in the heart of Chestnut Valley—a historic African American entertainment and gambling district. …
LGBTQIA+ communities have been contributing to St. Louis’s history for centuries. Now the Gateway to Pride virtual exhibit will begin to uncover the rarely-shared or
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