EDWARDSVILLE – Edwardsville Mayor Art Risavy was joined by Chief James Whiteford as well as many other fire department staff and city officials Tuesday morning to hold a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the new East Fire Station. The $5.1 million, 8,400-square-foot station will be located at 7407 Governors Parkway and will be the city’s third station. It comes shortly after the completion of the new-and-improved Public Safety Building on Main Street in 2017. The Public Safety Building serves as the city’s police and fire department headquarters. The other two stations are located at 783 NW University Drive on the campus of SIUE, and at 340 Montclaire Avenue. Chief Whiteford explained that these existing stations are much along the north and south of the city limits, however, Edwardsville has grown tremendously from east to west, requiring a new station to keep dispatch times as quick as possible, with citizen safety being a number one priority. “The
From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: Missouri Senator Doug Beck (D-Affton), president of the Missouri State Building Trades Council, attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the St. Louis County Police Department’s new Affton-Southwest (Third) Precinct. The event took place Oct. 19 at the site of the new 15,000 square-foot precinct at 11520 Gravois Road in Affton. […]
Opera Theatre of St. Louis is on a mission to introduce opera to younger audiences. This year they connected with third grade students from Jefferson Elementary in the Normandy Schools Collaborative to write an original libretto that they’ll perform Tuesday night. Opera Theatre of St. Louis teaching artist Valerie Smith and Normandy Schools Collaborative’s fine arts director Suzanne Palmer discuss their collaboration along with St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer: Glen Carbon’s Zoning Board of Appeals has approved a request from Walmart to add on to its site in Cottonwood Plaza. The retail colossus requested a variance to reduce the number of parking spaces at its facility, located at 400 Junction Drive, because it seeks to expand its building footprint by […]
From The Hill: One of the long-standing public policy disagreements between Republicans and Democrats is over when government intervention in the economy is warranted. Republicans are prone to criticize government programs as being wasteful and inefficient, while Democrats maintain they can help to fill gaps that the private sector cannot or will not address. The Infrastructure Investment […]
SPRINGFIELD – Governor JB Pritzker and Lt. Governor Stratton announced today a historic agreement to pay off the remaining $1.36 billion unemployment insurance loan balance, replenish the fund for the future, and protect benefits for working families. The agreement will save taxpayers an estimated $20 million in interest costs that would be due next September and preserves hundreds of millions of dollars in future federal tax credits for Illinois employers. The agreement between representatives from business, labor, bipartisan members of the General Assembly, and the state, will contribute more than $1.8 billion in state funds to the unemployment insurance trust fund, which includes the payment of the remaining federal loan balance borrowed under Title XII of the Social Security Act. The remaining $450 million will be placed into the trust fund from state funds as an interest-free loan. As the loan is repaid over the next ten years, funds will be deposited directly into the
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Representatives of St. Louis, St. Louis County and the authority that owns The Dome at America’s Center have reached a tentative agreement dividing up the $519 million remaining in settlement money from the lawsuit over the NFL Rams’ relocation. A copy of the two-page tentative agreement was released by Mayor Tishaura […]
Brian May is working hard on a reissue of his 1983 solo EP, Star Fleet Project. The Queen guitarist shared on Instagram that it will be his next Gold Series reissue box set, and he’s expecting…
EDWARDSVILLE - The City of Edwardsville issued a North Buchanan Street work update Tuesday afternoon: The block of North Buchanan Street between East Vandalia Street and Hillsboro Avenue is closed today (Tuesday, November 29) while the road is patched at the East Vandalia intersection, the city said. "It is expected to reopen by early Wednesday morning for those who need to access that block," the city added. "This is another step in the huge project to upgrade the very old water main along North Buchanan Street between Vandalia and Union streets. The new water main (a 12-inch pipe that will serve the area far better than the original 4-inch cast iron main) is in place, and we’re in the process of switching over everyone’s service to that main before we can get the road patched. "We know it’s taking a while, that it’s messy and disruptive, and we sincerely appreciate everyone’s patience and apologize for the inconvenience. A few hurdles have cropped up
Three contract years and an upcoming farewell season for Adam Wainwright loom ahead for the Cardinals. Plenty for the St. Louis front office to consider as the Winter Meetings approach next week.
This is a kid descending from a tree in Square Louis-XVI, a small park just a few hundred feet from our apartment in Paris. He didn't do anything while he was up the tree—or perhaps he failed at whatever he was hoping to do—and eventually he shinnied down.
Anheuser-Busch is collaborating with four nonprofit partners—100 Neediest Cases, the St. Louis Area Foodbank, LifeWise StL, and the Missouri Historical Society—to help local charities and share the holiday cheer.
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