At its July 26 meeting, the O’Fallon City Council discussed and approved a resolution that would create an agreement between the city and Lochmueller Group, an engineering consultant company located in St. Peters, to perform a citywide traffic study.

Build it and they will come – words that apparently apply to the Premier 370 Business Park because a new, large “spec” building has been given the go-ahead by the city of St. Peters. The city’s Board of Aldermen has approved issuing $12.8 million in industrial revenue bonds to build a 375,200-square-foot facility on 24.65 acres at 1001 Premier Parkway in the business park. The land is owned by a subsidiary of Duke Realty Corp., which is developing the park. The project is expected to be substantially complete by Feb. 1, 2019. The developer will “seek to sell the project ...

St. Charles County officials are still considering selling the Family Arena, even though there were no takers last month when the county sought requests for proposals [RFPs]  from anyone willing to purchase the property.

Starting tomorrow, Ameren Missouri customers will see their electric rates decrease by 6 percent, thanks to legislation passed by the Missouri General Assembly and action by the Missouri Public Service Commission.

Smoke Free St. Charles County, a coalition of health groups and citizens, turned in what they said were petitions with more than 30,000 signatures seeking to place the smoking ban on the election ballot in the form of a charter amendment.

The eyes of the golfing world will turn toward Bellerive Country Club Aug. 6-12 when the greatest players in the world compete in the 100th PGA Championship.

Eight seniors from area high schools each received a scholarship in the amount of $3,000.

Janet Musangali, a seventh-grader at Frontier Middle in O’Fallon, recently won the grand prize and received a $2,000 scholarship for her entry into the Money Smart Kid Essay Contest. 

Elizabeth Skelly, St. Charles resident and recent graduate of Francis Howell Central High, was selected as a delegate for the 2018 National Youth Science Camp [NYSC] earlier this summer in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

St. Charles Community College’s certified nursing assistant [CNA] apprenticeship program hosts an open house from 4:30-5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 8 at SCC – Dardenne Creek Campus. The campus is located at 1 Academy Place in Dardenne Prairie.