Weather permitting, MoDOT will be doing pavement repair at night on Interstate 70 and the service road at various locations. Please see the dates and locations below.

The New Melle Board of Aldermen will hold a special meeting and work session on October 23, 2018 starting at 6 p.m. at City Hall. The meeting will include a hearing on the business license revocation for The Quarry Wine Garden, and a closed session to discuss personnel. The tentative posted agenda contained the following:

Compete for cash prizes, trophies and a Thanksgiving turkey at the 15^th annual Disc Golf Blind Turkey Toss Tournament on Saturday, Nov. 17 at Indian Camp Creek Park near Wentzville. Just in time for Thanksgiving, this nighttime event is fun for disc golf enthusiasts and first-time disc golfers alike and is hosted by the St. Charles County Parks and Recreation Department and the St. Charles County Disc Golf Club. 

By Dianne Sudbrock

The New Melle Board of Aldermen met Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018 at City Hall. All the aldermen, the mayor, city clerk, city attorney, city engineer and planning and zoning chairperson were present.

The Eastern Missouri Dark Sky Observers will be holding another public stargazing event at East Central College Observatory on the ECC campus this Saturday evening October 20th, 2018,  beginning at dusk.

Troy, Mo., October 15, 2018 -- Mary Jane Clark, former communications manager of Cuivre River Electric Cooperative (CREC) in Troy, was honored with the A.C. Burrows Award by the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives (AMEC) at that organization’s annual meeting Oct. 11 in Branson. 

The new overpass on Route 61 in St. Charles County will open to traffic later this week.  Weather permitting, the overpass, which connects to Route P and Peine Road, will open on Friday.  At this time I do not have an exact time.  The southbound Route 61 exit and entrance ramps will not open until later this year.  The northbound exit and entrance ramps previously opened to traffic.  

St. Charles County, Wentzville and Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) officials will gather at 10 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 15, to commemorate the completion of an important part of a project promised to families who have lost loved ones on U.S. 61 in Wentzville. A new bridge over the highway will eliminate the at-grade intersections of Route P and Peine Road with U.S. 61. This new bridge opens next week.

Weather permitting, MoDOT will be doing pavement repair at night on Interstate 70 at various locations. Please see the dates and locations below. All work will be completed between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.

Educators take advantage of Energy in Today’s Classroom course

When Kelly Kruse returned to teaching two years ago, she found herself discussing topics that she wasn’t as familiar with.

Thanks to Energy in Today’s Classroom, a two-day graduate level course, the middle school science teacher is armed with more knowledge to pass on to her students at St. Joseph Catholic School in Josephville.

Our fall 2018 production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible tells a dramatized story of the Salem witch trials. Through this partially fictionalized story the audience is transported to the Massachusetts Bay Colony where a society is forced to deal with rigid religious & moral issues, peer pressure, desire for revenge and the sacrifices of being true to one’s self. The hard lessons learned in this play span the decades.