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The ZX gas station and convenience store will return with six gas pumps and a much larger convenience store.

Nearly one year after voting to seek permission from the Miller County Circuit Court to form a Transportation Development District in the City of Lake Ozark, the board of aldermen

By Editor | May 5, 2021 By ERIC X. VICCARO It was a case of “much ado about nothing.” The city of Ste. Genevieve received only one qualification submittal for the water/sewer operator contract. The only company to submit a request for qualifications (RFQ), as it turned out, was Alliance Water Resources – the current contractor for said services. City administrator Happy Welch said the city is still analyzing the submittal, and negotiations will take place during the next couple of months....

What you can learn from the most successful Kickstarter campaigns of all time There’s a current dearth of trust in the relationship between new entrepreneurs and the banks. The banks don’t trust the new entrepreneurs. After all, they’re an unproven commodity. They are an element of risk in an industry that has conditioned itself to be extremely risk averse over the past decade. Moreover, most new entrepreneurs don’t come to the table with vast sums of capital to match the bank’s inves...

By Editor | April 21, 2021 By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com Mayor Paul Monia called Cochran Engineering’s report on the city’s water/sewer needs and its recommendations and estimated costs of more than $1.8 million for the entire project “eye opening.” David Van Leer and T.J. Garbs gave about a 40-minute presentation to Monia and the Bloomsdale Board of Aldermen, during the board’s monthly meeting on April 13. The exhaustive report showed residential, commercial and total water u...

By Editor | March 17, 2021 By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com Although no updates were received from Cochran Engineering on Bloomsdale’s water and sewer system replacement project, the water system did come up during the 35-minute March 9 board of aldermen meeting. Water superintendent John Lurk pointed out early in the meeting that during the span of single-digit and below-zero temperatures in late February, the city did not have a single city water main break. Other entities throughout t...

By MARK EVANS mevans@stegenherald.com Bloomsdale aldermen voted to enter into a five-year supervised program of water system improvements with Cochran Engineering for $26,500 at their Feb. 8 meeting. David Van Leer of Cochran Engineering explained that he had met with city water plant supervisor John Lurk and city clerk Lynnette Randoll, to get an idea of what the city wanted. “That’s essentially a specific type of water study that allows us to identify projects to be done, within the repor...

County places sales tax measure on April ballot Published by admin on Wed, 02/03/2021 - 8:48am By:  Editor Audrain County voters will be asked in April to approve a quarter-cent sales tax to raise funds for construction and repair of small bridges, culverts and other structures on county roads. If passed, the sales tax would be in place for 10 years. Engineers have identified more than 700 structures under 20 feet in length in Audrain County. There is no...

By ERIC X. VICCARO Discussions surrounding the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic continue at Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen meetings. During his city administrator’s report, Happy Welch noted how city staff have been handling these issues. Welch said, “we are recovering from our COVID-19 quarantines, and are just about to full strength,” as noted in the report dated Dec. 10, submitted before the regular board of aldermen meeting that night. The administrator said visitors are still requir...