By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Dr. Paul Taylor, superintendent of R-II Schools, addressed the Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen during a work session Thursday regarding the need for better water pressure at the district’s future early learning center. The school district is hoping the board will agree to change its time line and put…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Two hundred thousand dollars will not go as far as it did 10 years ago – or even two years ago, for that matter. The $200,000 set aside for street paving and repair was again a source of discussion at last Thursday night’s Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen meeting.…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Progress is being made on Misplay Road, where a July 20 flash flood complicated the long-awaited box culvert installation. That event eroded the bank enough to require more engineering for the project. Presiding Commissioner Randy Ruzicka reported during last Thursday’s commission meeting that he visited the site on Tuesday…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD During the Oct. 10 Bloomsdale Board of Aldermen meeting a Clement Road resident asked Mayor Paul Monia what he could do to help convince some of his neighbors to sign easement paperwork. Cochran engineering has staked off the proposed easements along Clement Road were a new waterline needs to…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Stolen road signs are no joke. The Ste. Genevieve County Commission has been making that clear for years. Road sign thefts have increased in recent years, leading to potential danger. In 2021, for instance, 225 signs were stolen in Ste. Genevieve County. In one case, a stolen stop sign…
Last Thursday at approximately 11:30 p.m., Ste. Genevieve officers were dispatched to the 800 block of Jefferson Street for a report of a stabbing. An officer arrived and was able to locate the victim. The victim is a 38 year old male that resides on Jefferson Street in Ste. Genevieve. The victim had been stabbed/cut…
By Michael Boyd Jr. STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Introducing the new 235 area code, the baby brother to the 573. Don’t worry. Nothing is going to change, but it is coming soon. According to the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), everyone still gets to keep their same 10 digits of their phone numbers, unlike the last…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Jared Nance, wildlife refuse manager for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, showed Ste. Genevieve County commissioners a map of the proposed Middle Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge area in Ste. Genevieve County last Thursday. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Martha Williams has accepted the Middle Mississippi River…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Steve Wilson, local manager for Alliance Water Resources, reported that Ninth Street waterline project was complete during the Sept. 28 board of aldermen meting. Wilson also informed the aldermen that the crews had moved to Rozier Street, where just some yard repairs remained to complete. They then moved on…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Ste. Genevieve aldermen again pondered how to deal with heavy trash trucks on city streets during last Thursday’s work session following the regular meeting. The possibility of contracting with one company to handle all the city’s trash hauling had been discussed at previous meetings. A poll taken indicated that…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD None of the three items on the agenda of last Thursday night’s work session resulted in definite decisions. The Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen will revisit each issue in coming meetings. In addition to the topic of having a size/weight limit for garbage trucks and/or contracting with a single…
A worker lugs a television set out of a vehicle during the annual large item and hazardous chemical recycling day, put on by the Holcim Group, at the Ste. Genevieve County Recycling Center. Lots of items were brought in at the all-day event on Saturday.
By Michael Boyd Jr. STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Keys on and kick stands up, get ready for the inaugural Cruisin’ for a Cure this Saturday, Oct. 7. A jeep and motorcycle ride for cystic fibrosis takes off from the Inn Ste. Gemme Beuvais parking lot behind Sylvanus in downtown Ste. Genevieve. A free concert by The…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Among the ordinances passed at last Thursday’s Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen meeting, one generated some discussion An ordnance approving a change order with Jokerst, Inc., for an additional $21,005 for the 2023 street-paving program was passed 8-0, but only after it was hashed out a bit. Jokerst was…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Back in November 2016, Ste. Genevieve County voted to join 10 other counties in eastern Missouri in a prescription drug-monitoring program. The county commission voted to approve the $250 first-year fee and $334 subsequent annual fee to be part of the database, which links in with other counties. If…
By MICHAEL BOYD JR. STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD For the second time since June, a film production company visited Ste. Genevieve for a project downtown. Drive Social Media of St. Louis sent a production crew to film a commercial recently, which required taking over Merchant Street during the morning hours so not to disrupt local businesses…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD During a short joint tourism meeting on Sept. 18, reports were given on the previous weekend’s Oktoberfest. “I heard it worked well,” City Administrator Happy Welch said. “Everything was concentrated between Main Street and Front Street.” “It seemed to work out well,” Joe Steiger, aldermanic liaison, said. “Last year…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Those wishing to learn how to get a better, longer-lasting paint job will have an opportunity to learn from an exert, Sept. 30-Oct. 1. Bob Yapp, who runs the Belvedere School For Historic Preservation in historic Hannibal, Missouri, will be putting on a two-day historic preservation workshop on exterior…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Grayco Roofing Consultants, Bade Roofing and an additional consultant Greyco brought in examined the Ste. Genevieve County Community Center roof last week. Presiding Commissioner Randy Ruzicka and Second District Commissioner Mark Marberry were present during part of their examination. They cut into the roof and examined it layer by…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Things are moving along on track for the replacement of waterlines along Clement Road. T. J. Garbs of Cochran Engineering reported to the Bloomsdale Board of Aldermen Sept. 12 that the timeline of having easement acquisitions in place by November. He asked whether the officials had heard any concerns…
A wide variety of topics were covered at the annul Ste. Genevieve History Conference on Saturday. Mark W. Kelly spoke on the divorce case of Andrew Henry v. Marie Villars, while Dr. Brad Lookingbill spoke on “Native Ground: The First People of Missouri before Statehood.” After lunch, Charlotte Young Slinkard gave “Meet the Girardeaus,” while…
By Mark Evans STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD The Holcim Group (formerly LaforgeHolcim) will put on a free large-item recycling event this fall after all. County leaders had been under the impression that the event would need to be postponed until next spring. At an Environmental Quality Control Committee meeting the commissioners attended last week, however, they…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Improving the appearance and usefulness of the Ste. Genevieve-Modoc Ferry landing. is something in which the Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen would be willing to take a leadership role. Ward 3 Alderman Joe Steiger described a project the Ste. Genevieve Rotary Club would like to do, to revamp the…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Patrick Fahey, an owner of the Main Street Inn and Ste. Genevieve Antique Mall, was sworn in as the new Ward 1 alderman at the start of last Thursday’s Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen meeting. Fahey will finish the term of Gary Smith, who resigned this summer. He will…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD After some discussion during a work session last Thursday, the Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen opted not to clean out a drainage ditch behind 744 Rozier Street, as a resident had requested. Duke Bleckler of 744 Rozier had complained that the stormwater swale behind his house that runs toward…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Charter Spectrum personnel and one subcontractor came in to hash some things out with the Ste. Genevieve County Commission last Thursday. The situation dates back more than a year, to when Spectrum began hiring subcontractors to lay cable in Ste. Genevieve County and neighboring counties. Some of the subcontractors…
From Staff Reports Ste. Genevieve’s annual Oktobertfest, this Saturday and Sunday, will celebrate the old French town’s strongly German heritage. Music, food, games, and of course beer will be on tap, along with other fun. According to event coordinator Kara Burt, it will be “more compacted,” to the area around Audubon’s and Silvanus on Merchant…
For the second time in seven years, Ste. Genevieve will be in the center of a total solar eclipse next spring. The eclipse will take place April 8, with Ste. Genevieve County appearing to be right in the center of the band. A group from the city, county and Chamber of Commerce has started meeting…
Staff Reports Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Martha Williams has accepted the Middle Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge Final Land Protection Plan. “Local residents, elected officials, and fish and wildlife representatives have been working on our portion of the plan for over five years with much of the emphasis the last three years getting…
By Mark Evans STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD David Bova of the Ste. Genevieve County Fair Board reported to the county commission last Thursday that the 2023 fair saw more than 18,000 people come through the gate The financial figures came out good, as well. Bova noted that while the board isn’t there to make a profit,…