It’s not too often that family members from three successive generations take up the same profession, much less a specific niche in that field. But it happened in St. Charles County, where a triumvirate of Schneiders made their mark in surgery.
Read More »Historic preservationist wants to display St. Louis’ architectural artifacts – all 650 semi-trailer loads
If you happen to see a tradesman way up on the side of a building, perched on a scaffold, working with drills and chisels and hammers, doing something to that handsome terracotta panel, chances are he’s not installing it or repairing it but removing it before the building itself comes down.
Read More »St. Louis gallery owner survives recessions, cheese-eaters
If Philip Slein had met those stalwarts of the art world, Pablo Picasso and Max Beckmann, he first would have told them how much he admires their work — and then he would have offered to sell it for them.
Read More »On Stage: No cannons, but plenty else at the pawn shop
The Zanders have three generations in the pawn business. Kim's father, Rich, ran St. Charles Pawn for 35 years, and Rich's father ran it before him.
Read More »William Stage: For Patt Holt, the only business is show business
Show business came naturally to Patt Holt. She grew up amid glamor and luxury on the West Coast, where her father, Harry Quinn, managed many hotels, including the famed Hollywood Roosevelt, where the family lived for several years.
Read More »William Stage: Philosophizing on today’s resale clothes market
On a Tuesday morning in early August, the mercury already approaching the mid-nineties, a constant stream of people are entering the doors of Plato’s Closet, located in Mid-Rivers Center, a bustling strip mall across from The Big Mall.
Read More »Lifelong interest fuels O’Fallon vet center
As a boy growing up in Lincoln County, Nick Lindsay recalls taking a keen interest in the veterinarians who came to his parents’ farm. Not content with merely watching them tend to the livestock, he would assist where he could, anything that a young kid could do. But mostly he watched and he wondered what it might be like, being an animal doctor.
Read More »Second career blossoms into Country Wine Gardens
A conversation with Country Wine Gardens' Bill Schaul.
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Read More »Meet the new, but familiar, mayor
Sally Faith, who was elected mayor of St. Charles last week, is a Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives, representing part of St. Charles County.
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Read More »Sr. Fran Raia: Looking for what we have in common
The Sisters of the Most Precious Blood work as teachers, counselors, activists, artists, caregivers, administrators, pastoral ministers, and much more.
Read More »‘I live and breathe this store’
We’ve all known some small neighborhood market that carried limited groceries, produce, pastries, and nice cuts of meat. The prices, well, they were higher than the supermarket’s but that was OK because the store was convenient and the help friendly.
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