The Special Road District A board on April 9 awarded bids for two upcoming projects to Vern Bauman Contracting. Bids were opened during the April 9 meeting of the board. Bauman bid $63.89 per ton, with a total of 604 tons for $38,590 to pave Roth Quarry Road. Jokerst, Inc. bid $64.00 per ton for…
After a discussion in which a former mayor and former city clerk urged the St. Mary Board of Aldermen to enact water and sewer rate increases that would keep those departments solvent, the board and Mayor Gloria Bader ended up asking city clerk David Woods to put 20 percent increases for each department on the…
If things don’t change, most Missourians may have to drive to larger cities to renew licenses, take drivers’ tests and take care of other license-related business, the operator of the local license office warned last week. Wayne Grusling, operator of the Ste. Genevieve License Office, told the Ste. Genevieve County Commission last Thursday that unless…
Voters in the two wards of the city of St. Mary last week re-elected one alderman by a narrow margin in one race and selected the only newcomer on the ballot in the other. First-time challenger Jennifer Schwartz defeated the board’s longest-serving member, Rose Rosenzweig, for the Ward 2 seat. Schwartz received 30 votes to…
Jeanette Roth Wood and Jim Brumfield will bring different backgrounds and different perspectives to the Ste. Genevieve County Health Department board when they become formal members at the Monday, April 22, meeting. Wood and Brumfield won the two four-year terms in a four-person race in the April 2 election. Carl Kinsky, who was appointed to…
Veteran board members Terry McDaniel and Richard “Itchy” Rudloff were returned to the Ste. Genevieve R-II School District Board of Education by voters on April 2. The two incumbents defeated challenger Larry Pfaff for the two open seats in a rematch of the 2013 election with the same result. McDaniel, who has served 18 years…
A Ste. Genevieve woman suffered minor injuries in a two-vehicle accident on April 7 in Jefferson County, according to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The accident took place around 11:42 a.m. at north of mile marker 179.6 on Interstate 55. Amanda K. Wooldridge, 42, of Ste. Genevieve, was driving a 2015 Chevrolet…
A 65-year-old Ste. Genevieve man suffered serious injuries in a motorcycle accident last week on Route O, according to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. William J. Parke was driving a 2000 Harley Davidson FLH northbound on Route O near Highway 32 at 5:12 p.m. on April 3 when the vehicle traveled off…
City of Ste. Genevieve voters on April 2 passed an increase of $0.2684 per $100 of assessed valuation in the city’s property tax levy for improving public safety through increasing police department salaries. Proposition P passed with 335 votes in favor to 291 against, or 53.5 percent to 46.5 percent. The city’s previous property tax…
When the Missouri Supreme Court issued an order amending Rule 37 in 2017, the absorption of many municipal courts into circuit court systems throughout Missouri began. This spring, the Ste. Genevieve and St. Mary municipal courts began the process to follow that trend, as both cities’ aldermen have acted to turn their cases over to…
Terry McDaniel and Rick Itchy” Rudloff were re-elected to the Ste. Genevieve R-II School District Board of Education on Tuesday, April 2, in the Municipal Election. McDaniel received 805 votes, Rudloff received 669, and challenger Lawrence Pfaff Jr. received 646. The R-II board was one of just two races that encompassed most of the county.…
The St. Mary Board of Aldermen will have one newcomer while another race resulted in a narrow win for an incumbent. Jennifer Schwartz defeated Ward 2 Alderwoman Rose Rosenzweig by a 30 to 20 count. In Ward 1, Alderwoman Jennifer Weiss held off former alderman Clyde Cassoutt 17 to 15. St. Mary also had a…
Proposition P, the public safety property tax increase of $0.2684 per $100 of assessed valuation, passed by a margin of 44 votes in the Municipal Election on Tuesday, April 2. The proposition had 335 votes in favor (53.5 percent) and 291 votes against (46.5 percent). Police chief Eric Bennett had estimated the tax will collect…
How to solicit public input on potential park improvements took up much of the city of Ste. Genevieve Parks and Recreation Board’s March 25 meeting. City administrator Martin Toma had previously discussed pursuing a state grant to widen the walking trail in Pere Marquette Park with the board. One of the requirements to be considered…
Ste. Genevieve County Presiding Commissioner Garry Nelson and County Clerk Sue Wolk are both adamant in their opposition to proposed bills in the Missouri House that would create closed primaries by forcing voters to choose a party. House Bills 26 and 922, which received their second of three readings March 26 in Jefferson City, would…
No one, it seems, has money to spend on maintaining the New Bourbon Port Road. Special Road District A chairman Paul Arnold and First District County Commissioner Randy Bahr attended the March 27 New Bourbon Regional Port Authority board meeting and brought invoices for work done on the flood-prone road. The Port Authority had been…
No definite policies will be put in place regarding zoning of medical marijuana-related businesses in the city of Ste. Genevieve until after the state releases its own guidelines. Ste. Genevieve aldermen looked at information compiled by community development administrator David Bova and city administrator Martin Toma during a work session prior to last Thursday night’s…
Two people were injured in a single-vehicle accident in Perry County on March 28, according to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Jackie W. Parmley Sr., 59 years old, of Ste. Genevieve suffered serious injuries, and Tara P. Parmley, 46, of Festus suffered moderate injuries. The accident took place around 6:35 p.m. on…
Another impromptu debate on the value of funding the city’s tourism department took place last Thursday during tourism director Sandra Cabot’s report at the Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen meeting. At a March 14 budget work session, outgoing Ward 4 Alderman Randy Ruzicka had challenged the need and propriety of the city funding the Welcome…
The fourth of four work sessions devoted to the city of St. Mary’s budget situation was the shortest, ending less than four minutes after the Pledge of Allegiance was said. Last Thursday’s work session was a special meeting that took place on what is not a regular meeting night for the St. Mary Board of…
Ste. Genevieve police chief Eric Bennett last week continued campaigning — on his own time — for Proposition P, which would raise the city’s property tax rate of $0.7316 by $0.2684 per $100 of assessed valuation. “It will be used solely to increase the salary for our officers,” Bennett said last week during the candidates…
Dr. Julie Flieg, superintendent of schools, and Dr. Paul Taylor, assistant superintendent, addressed the amount of money the district received from the Valle Springs Tax Increment Financing (TIF) settlement and the district’s graduation rate at the Ste. Genevieve R-II School District Board of Education meeting on March 19. “I know several of the board members…