The St. Peters Board of Aldermen will have some new members this year as incumbents bow out and new candidates step up.

The city of Saint Charles is celebrating its 250th anniversary.

Some St. Charles County residents are a bit uneasy about what portions of the county will look like in the future. Their unease is about increased population growth and urbanization and what those issues could mean for largely rural, agricultural and undeveloped portions of the county.

A St. Peters woman with an allergy to grass who landscaped her home’s yard with flowers, bushes and lawn ornaments is slated to have her case appear before a federal appeals court. The case has been going on for about four years, and will now be decided by a three-panel judge.

It was announced on Jan. 17 that the O’Fallon City Council has officially come to an agreement with the River City Rascals baseball team that will allow the team to return to CarShield Field, 900 TR Hughes Blvd., for the 2019 season.

St. Charles County Councilmember John White [District 7] has been named the chairman of the council this year succeeding Councilmember Dave Hammond [District 4].

The St. Charles County Council approved a conditional use permit allowing a restaurant on a 17. 9-acre tract at the southwestern corner of the intersection of Terry Court and Terry Road.

Farm roads with limited shoulders in rural St. Charles County were not designed to handle high traffic volumes and high speeds. And traffic and speeds are on the rise on two-lane rural roads as new homes are rising from what were farmers fields in parts of the county. That concerns farmers who still live there and new residents.

Dardenne Prairie Mayor David Zucker and city aldermen may be exploring whether to hire a city administrator in the coming months. But first, as Alderman Justin Ungerbroeck [Ward 2] said, they want to “define the swim lanes properly” to ensure that the person hired is likely to swim rather than sink.

On the morning of Jan. 4, O'Fallon residents filled the city council chambers at O'Fallon Municipal Center [City Hall] to hear Mayor Bill Hennessy deliver the 2019 State of the City address.