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Planning for the 2012 Lions Club car show in the historic business district took a step in the right direction on Tuesday with the city council’s approval of street closures in the uptown area. The streets will be closed temporarily to vehicle traffic on the day of the show and will reopen that evening to accommodate restaurants and their patrons.
The St. James School District is moving quickly on getting an HVAC contract for the middle school. Creative Construction Solutions representative Lloyd Pooker discussed bidding options with the St. James Board of Education last week and gave a schedule of things to come.
A trial date has been set for the St. James resident charged with first degree involuntary manslaughter after Casey L. (Black) Brady, of St. James, died in one-car wreck in June, 2011. Earl D. Briggs, 21, is scheduled to face a jury on the one-year anniversary of Brady’s death.
I lived in Cuba from 1948 (when I was born in Waynesville) until about 1958 and have wonderful memories growing up in that small Missouri town. Two vivid memories of Midway stick out in my mind.
“They’ve got it bass ackwards.” That’s how my mother would have described how the city of Steelville is dealing with continued complaints about business owners and workers parking on Main Street all day. Rather than taking the necessary steps to fix the problem by making the business owners and workers park elsewhere, city officials would rather have downtown shoppers find other places to park. As a downtown business owner, I have to say that is ridiculous!
Steelville’s Business of the Year for 2011 is Steelville Telephone Exchange, honored at the Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Awards Banquet and Meeting held on January 17 at The Huzzah Club.
Crawford County Surveyor Mark Mueller is advocating the county’s participation in the Land Survey Program through the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and discussed the possibility of participation in the program with Crawford County Commissioners earlier this month.
Blazer’s Pub and Grill in Bourbon will be the site of book signing by novelist Patrick Jones.
The Steelville High School junior varsity girls won the championship of the Viburnum JV tournament last week. The Lady Cards defeated Viburnum 44-40 to win the title.
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