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GLEN CARBON - A preliminary site plan for a new Club Car Wash to be built in Orchard Town Center was approved by the Glen Carbon Village Board of Trustees on Tuesday. The 5,300 square-foot facility will operate as a self-serve, drive-thru tunnel car wash serving a peak estimate of 70 cars per hour during the week. Joseph Howley, an engineer with Civil Engineering Design Consultants (CEDC), spoke at the meeting on behalf of Club Car Wash. He said the car wash is entirely self-service and will see even more cars on the weekends. “ called a ‘self-service’ tunnel, you actually drive in, you stay in your car and it just pulls you through there,” Howley said. “We’re looking at peak estimates of about 70 cars per hour during the week - there’s a higher estimate on the weekends, of course. The car wash panel itself has a capacity of about 100 cars an hour.” He credited the current plan for having “lots of stacking area” t

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The wild world of Milkweed plants is populated by aphids who suck the plant's life, beetles who suck the aphids dry, ant lion babies who will eat each other - and sometimes the Monarch butterflies whose caterpillars gotta eat Milkweed or starve.

         APHIDS!

Native gardening specialist Besa Schweitzer guides this conversational tour through the realm of Milkweeds - and the bugs to bug them! Her Wildflower Garden Planner is a book everyone can use to welcome Nature's Wild Child plants into your place. 

Congratulations, Besa, on this summer's recognition of your work from the native plant advocate botanists of Missouri Native Plant Society! Honor well deserved. Earthworms listeners: read Besa's take on this topic in The Healthy Planet July 2023 edition.

Thanks to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms engineer and Green colleague in Sierra Club - and to KDHX production ace, Jon Valley

 

 

Family members of the 13 service members killed in the Aug. 26, 2021, U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan say the government is lying to them.

Yandy Díaz, Brandon Lowe and Randy Arozarena hit RBI singles in the eighth inning and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2.

From Leader Publications:  The Jefferson County Health Department will seek construction bids soon for its new Hillsboro office, according to Jim Huber, principal and design coordinator for Archimages of Kirkwood. During the July 27 Health Department Board of Trustees meeting, Huber said drawings for the 19,957-square-foot, one-story building are complete and the company is ready […]

The St. Charles Police Department said Hannah Hesterberg was last seen on Monday on West Clay Street. No further information regarding her description was provided.

From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:  Ghanshyam (Sam) Patel and Jay Patel, doing business as Midwest Hotel Construction, LLC, of Sunset Hills, had proposed constructing and operating a 4-story, 80-unit Hampton Inn Hotel, with an indoor pool, on 1.9 acres along Technology Drive next to the existing Extra Space Storage building, and just west of the Persimmon […]

Well, I see that Ohioans have overwhelmingly rejected the right-wing attempt to change referendums from simple majority vote to needing 60% to pass. This means that November's abortion rights referendum will be decided by a normal majority vote. So why the huge rejection? Is it a harbinger of the abortion vote? Or is it just ...continue reading "Ohio rejects right-wing attempt to rig referendums"

Strength. Revolution. Survival. In the 1980s, New York City’s East Village was a place of struggle and angst for impoverished artists living through the AIDS epidemic; however, they persevered through

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U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm at St. Louis battery materials plant groundbreaking: "Up to this point, globally, China has had a market on this."

The Clay County prosecutor is telling anyone on the Missouri River to alert authorities if they spot a barrel after a woman was found dead.

A Boeing official told the county council that sites other than St. Louis have been considered for the aerospace manufacturer's proposed $1.8 billion expansion project, which would include construction of multiple buildings totaling one million square feet.

The two organizations have collaborated NON STNDRD, a new exhibition space located on the NBAC campus.

City Winery St. Louis presents Mike Phillips Live in concert, Tuesday, August 8th at 7:30 PM.   World renowned saxophonist Mike Phillips is known as one of the most electrifying instrumentalists

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Stop in every Tuesday from 7:30 to 9:30 for Trivia Night with Mack and Mace at Steve’s Hot Dogs. Stop at the table to sign up. Come back every week,

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