Mid Rivers Newsmagazine Your online news source for St. Charles County, Missouri

Letter to the editor for the Aug. 8 issue.

Letter to the editor for the Aug. 8 issue.

Letter to the editor for the Aug. 8 issue.

Letter to the editor for the Aug. 8 issue.

This week, Mid Rivers Newsmagazine talks with Baylor Talcott, our summer intern. Talcott is a student at the University of Tampa double-majoring in journalism and new media production. 

In anticipation of the Aug. 7 primary election, candidates in contested races only were invited to answer the following questions: 1. Why are you running and what are your priorities if elected? 2. What are your qualifications for holding public office? Ballot language for the propositions and issues also is included in this coverage.

Opponents of a controversial proposal to build subdivision homes in the forested Missouri Bluffs area along the Missouri River have filed suit seeking to overturn a June decision by the St. Charles County Council that gives a go-ahead to the development.

St. Charles County and St. Peters have formally agreed to develop a “blue way" canoe route connecting a new county park along the Mississippi River at the mouth of Dardenne Creek with St. Peters’ 370 Lakeside Park.

For many years, Bob Sandfort, his two brothers and sister had a sense that time would run out on their more-than-a-century-old farm in St. Charles. The question was when. The answer is now.

Dardenne Prairie residents and city officials recently were asked whether they would mind if wireless communications equipment and antennas were hung on a flagpole at Ambulance Station 15, located at 1120 Feise Road. The catch? The pole would no longer fly the American flag.