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Schlafly's Tap Room, Maggie O'Brien's, The Pitch and Syberg's Market together counted more than 12,000 visitors on March 4.

The Cardinals are sponsoring a flash sale in honor of 314 Day, the holiday to celebrate St. Louis. Tickets to every Monday through Thursday game in April are just $3.14 today starting at 9 a.m. The sale will last for 12 hours.

From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:  Each year, the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides selected cities with Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds. For 2022, O’Fallon received a total of $342,652. That CDBG funding was budgeted and accounted for as part of O’Fallon overall city budget. Each city receiving those funds must […]

CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a second agreed interim order in an ongoing lawsuit against Marathon Pipe Line LLC (Marathon) over the March 2022 release of approximately 147,000 gallons of heavy crude oil from a pipeline near Edwardsville, Illinois. Raoul filed the order in Madison County Circuit Court which requires Marathon to fully investigate the impact of the spill and determine whether further corrective action may be needed. “The order my office filed ensures Marathon takes necessary action to eliminate both environmental and human health risks from the areas impacted by the spill,” Raoul said. “My office is committed to ensuring the remediation of the affected water and soil surrounding Cahokia Creek while our lawsuit continues.” Raoul’s lawsuit alleges that Marathon violated the Illinois Environmental Protection Act and endangered public health and the environment by causing or allowing a discharge of heavy crude oil

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The standards would force states to begin the arduous process of cleaning out "forever chemicals" from their water supplies.

Shawn Kavanagh is on trial in St. Charles for a triple murder on Valentine's Day 2014.

Date of sighting: February 27 Location: South Eighth Street and Market Street

From Utility Dive: Dive Brief:  After watching solar installations decline 16% in 2022, solar industry analysts expect to see a rebound in 2023. But the year ahead is so uncertain that Wood Mackenzie has forecast three potential scenarios. The difference between the three scenarios is relatively small—with a roughly ten percent difference between the baseline scenarios […]

Breathe is a collection of large-scale abstract paintings created through the unconscious combination of bold colors and free movement. Artist Lauren Younge uses acrylics to design irregular patterns that could motivate

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From WIRED: In Odessa, Texas, workers at a startup called SolarCycle unload trucks carrying end-of-life photovoltaic panels freshly picked from commercial solar farms across the United States. They separate the panels from the aluminum frames and electrical boxes, then feed them into machines that detach their glass from the laminated materials that have helped generate electricity […]

From The Business Journals: The homeownership gap between Black and white Americans continues to widen, underscoring how a whiplash housing market has disproportionately affected minority households. The National Association of Realtors recently found the homeownership rate of Black Americans has only grown 0.4% in the past decade and is nearly 29 percentage points less than white […]

From Webster-Kirkwood Times: With Des Peres’ only medical marijuana store awaiting approval to sell recreational marijuana, aldermen have elected to conduct a traffic study. Root 66, 12095 Manchester Road, received a conditional use permit in August 2022 to sell medical marijuana. Following passage of Missouri Amendment 3 in November 2022, the facility has since applied to […]

Crews are responding to a building fire in south St. Louis City.

From The Telegraph: The Village of Glen Carbon has selected a new director of community development. Erika Heil will oversee the village’s building and zoning department and economic development initiatives. She brings to the job a wide range of economic development experience, working in Illinois and Missouri on local, state-wide and regional level programs. She will […]

Officials want to see plans for commercial, retail, entertainment, office, residential or services as part of any proposal.

From St. Louis Business Journal: The city of Crestwood is seeking ground-up redevelopment ideas for a shopping center across from the former mall site that is now being redeveloped into retail and single-family houses. Crestwood officials issued a request for proposals last week for the 8.8-acre Crestview Plaza at 9222 Watson Road, a shopping center that was anchored […]

From npr: There is a devastating story that Pascale Sablan sometimes tells when she talks about the experiences that have shaped who she’s become. It starts in a place of joy. In her case, Sablan remembers feeling elated as a teenage freshman at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture back in 2001 — long before she […]