By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com The annual Ste. Genevieve History Conference, an educational symposium on French Colonial people, events and cultural heritage of Ste. Genevieve and surrounding area, will be held Sept. 17. It will be at the Ste. Genevieve County Community Center (21390 Highway 32) running 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Speakers include H. Riley…
By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com After putting their heads together, District 116 State Representative Dale Wright, District 145 State Representative Rick Francis and the Ste. Genevieve County commissioners agreed that funds for enhancing 911 radio capability should be aggressively pursued. Alan Wells, director of the Alan Wells St. Francois County Joint Communication and EOC Center, addressed…
By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com Large crowds took advantage of fairly mild weather Aug. 13-14 during Ste. Genevieve’s 55th Annual Jour de Fete festival. Jami Inman, president of the Jour de Fete Committee, expressed pleasure in the way things played out. “I know, according to a lot of our vendors that they had some record sales…
By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com Ste. Genevieve city employees will be getting a $1 an hour flat raise for 2023, rather than an 8% cost of living raise. Meanwhile, a cap will be put on what employees must pay per year on their insurance premium at $300 a month, when they begin assuming 30% of the…
By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com Levee District No. 2 Chair Chris Kertz reported on a peaceful year during the district board’s annual meeting last Thursday night. “There was not a whole lot going on,” Kertz told the board and visitors. “We didn’t have any flooding. We closed the levee. “We did purchase some of the components…
By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com Gina Bennett had an idea for solving the city’s trouble in getting information to visitors. In recent weeks, Tourism Tax Commission members had made suggestions of removing the “Welcome Center” sign from the Welcome Center and possibly seeking a small space for a city-run tourism office, following numerous complaints about the…
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By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD In light of Jeff Wix’s resignation as tourism director earlier that day, tourism was one of the primary items discussed at last Thursday night’s Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen meeting. In giving the tourism director’s report, City Administrator Happy Welch reported that 7,500 rack cards had been distributed in…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD In advance of this week’s budget workshop, Ste. Genevieve City Administrator Happy Welch went over budgetary items with the board of aldermen during a work session last Thursday night. How to address employee pay raises was one issue. Welch wanted the board to decide whether it wanted to go…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD After previously pulling Spectrum’s permit for laying cable, the Ste. Genevieve County Commission opted to give the company one final chance. Paul G. Berra, director of government affairs for Missouri-Central Region for Spectrum, joined Chris Tucker and other Spectrum personnel in pleading their case during last Thursday’s commission meeting.…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD David Van Leer and T.J. Garbs of Cochran Engineering reported that the installation of the new 300,000-gallon water tank in Bloomsdale is “coming along as expected,” while the distribution part of the $2 million project also “moving along,” during the Aug. 9 board of aldermen meeting. Garbs reported that…
There is still no budget set for the city of St. Mary for fiscal year (FY) 2023. During last Thursday night’s board of aldermen meeting, a motion to pass a tax levy failed when Alderman Dr. Zen Duda abstained. Alderman Karl Schultz had not yet arrived when the vote was taken. It failed with two…
Aaron DeRousse, Special Road District A road foreman, reported during the Aug. 9 meeting that the road crew was continuing to mow and they have been spraying weeds along the roadways. They had also been working in the shop making repairs to the boom mower. A cylinder has been replaced on that and reported that…
By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com Kim Resinger Gielow defeated Lisa Klein Marschel 1,111 to 931, or 54.4% to 45.6% in the race for Republican nomination for Ste. Genevieve County Collector in last Tuesday’s primary election. Gielow will now face Democrat Susan Mueller, who faced no opposition in the Democratic primary. There were no other contested local…
By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com David Bova, community development administrator, told the Ste. Genevieve Planning and Zoning Commission that meetings would be held at 6 p.m., Aug. 29 and 10 a.m., Aug. 30 to get public input on updating the city’s comprehension plan. The plan was last updated in 1997. Chairman Gary Roth asked if the…
From Staff Reports Ste. Genevieve Levee District No. 2 will hold its annual public meeting at 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 18. The meeting will be held at the Gateway FS (formerly Loida Ag) meeting room at 23860 Bourbon Road. The purpose will be electing new members to the board of supervisors and transacting any other…
By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com Patience has run out for Mastec and other contractors Spectrum has been using to lay high-speed internet cable. In both St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve County, officials have been displeased, as has the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT). The contractors – especially Mastec – have blocked lanes on county and state…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Nuisance properties were addressed during the Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen’s regular meeting last Thursday night. Lori Figge spoke during the public comment session and lambasted the city leaders for what she felt was inaction on their part. A South Gabouri Street resident for 17 years, she complained about…
By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com County commissioners expressed pleasure with the way the county road and bridge crew had gotten the first of three culverts installed on Cave Road last week. “They don’t have to be told what needs to be done,” Presiding Commissioner Garry Nelson said, “They see it and jump in and do it.”…
By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com Jami Inman is confident that Jour de Fete will be as big as ever this year. She said 97 vendors had signed up as of last Wednesday. “I think we’ll have well over 100 crafters,” she said. “I was hoping to have 125, but I don’t know if we’ll have that.”…
By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com Things continue to develop in the battle between Nexgen Silica, LLC and Operation Sand, LLC. Last week Operation Sand filed a complaint with the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission, challenging the mining permit the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) had issued to Nexgen on June 30 to conduct silica sand mining…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Paper maps still serve a purpose. An extra $1,600 was added to the Ste. Genevieve Tourism Tax Commission (TTC)’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget in order to add a downtown map to the visitor’s guide the group prints. During the quarterly joint meeting of the TTC and the Tourism Advisory…
By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com Thanks to skyrocketing oil and fuel prices and the unexpected work required on Franklin Bridge, a new Ste. Genevieve County Road and Bridge Department pickup truck is not in the cards this year. “A new truck was in the budget, but we can’t do it now,” Presiding Commissioner Garry Nelson told…
By Michael Boyd Jr. eviccaro@stegenherald.com A total of 60 registered children for Bloomsdale Elementary School means the Ste. Genevieve R-II School District will be adding an additional kindergarten teacher for the 2022-23 school year. The number of students is as of July 10. The additional teacher allows BES to stay within the Department of Elementary…
From Staff Reports Fire blazed through a commercial structure at Klein Street and Highway 61 (201 Ste Genevieve Drive) Saturday morning. The Ste Genevieve Fire Department along with St. Mary FD, Ozora FD and Zell FD were dispatched at 11:09 a.m. “Due to the heavy fire conditions a second alarm was immediately requested which brought…
During the July 12 special Road District A meeting, Road Foreman Aaron De Rousse said the road crew is continuing with the mowing and spraying weeds, keeping up with equipment repairs and would be taking the 2008 tandem dump truck to TAG Truck Center in Farmington for repairs. He also reported that the overlays have…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD Large crowds and decent weather marked the 2022 Ste. Genevieve County Fair. Organizers were pleased with the outcome. “The 2022 Ste. Genevieve County Fair went very well. Fair favorites such as the Demo Derby and the Truck Pull were well attended,” said Estrella Carmona with the fair board. “For…
By MARK EVANS STE. GENEVIEVE HERALD T.J. Garbs of Cochran Engineering reported that the erection of tower to hold Bloomsdale’s new 300,000-gallon water tank is “coming along pretty quickly” during the July 12 Bloomsdale Board of Aldermen meeting. This is despite an injury to one of the crew members erecting it. Garbs said Cochran was…
From Staff Reports Smoking is now against the law in city-owned buildings and vehicles in St. Mary. The St. Mary Board of Aldermen unanimously passed a resolution banning the smoking during the board’s monthly meeting last Thursday. It passed on first and second readings. A pair of resolutions authorizing the city to pursue water and…
BY MICHAEL BOYD JR. HERALD STAFF Published Saturday, July 16, 2022 Local volunteer fire fighters fought a blaze at the old ice factory Saturday morning (7.16.2022) on U.S. Highway 61 south of town across from the St. Jude subdivision and next to the Head Start school in Ste. Genevieve, Mo. The structure was completely destroyed…