This convention isn’t for the birds. It’s for the people who stuff birds – and other wildlife. The World Taxidermy and Fish Carving Championships arrives this week in St. Charles for the first time ever, and brings with it approximately ...

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St. Charles County held its first “no refusal” checkpoint on Thursday night. Officers had the ability to obtain warrants for blood testing when a driver refused to take a breathalyzer test. The process is legal according to attorneys, but many ...

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As expected, most of the government jurisdictions in St. Charles County are projecting that they will increase the amount of their tax rates in 2009. However, those increases won’t necessarily translate into higher tax bills for county property owners. That’s ...

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Nearly 17 years ago, Kenneth Baumruk shot and killed his wife in a St. Louis County courtroom during a divorce hearing. On Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court affirmed the conviction and death sentence imposed after Baumruk’s second trial. Baumruk also ...

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At the close of 2007, St. Charles County’s commercial real estate market was outdoing itself, with positive absorption of office, retail and industrial space and the lowest vacancy rate since 1998. But as with the rest of the St. Louis ...

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To get the skinny on the current trends in home refinancing in St. Charles County, look first to the title companies. And even then the answer is not entirely clear. U.S. Title President Nancy J. LoRusso said that overall the ...

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Less than a year after he was hired, Jim Maurer has been ousted as the executive director of United Services, a St. Charles County not-for-profit that provides preschool daycare and other services to disabled and nondisabled children. Beginning this Tuesday ...

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Asking the right questions to potential employees is key in finding the right fit for a company, according to Dewey Thompson, senior business trainer and consultant at the Missouri Training Institute. Thompson presented the Alliance seminar “Interviewing and Selecting Employees,” ...

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The metropolitan area’s clearinghouse for federal transportation funds has targeted almost $8.8 million for work in St. Charles County. At its meeting last week the East-West Gateway Council of Governments’ board of directors approved $58.7 million for Missouri transportation projects ...

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Dr. Aislinn Vaughan is St. Charles County’s only Breast Fellowship-trained surgeon. She started in practice with SSM St. Charles Clinic Medical Group in fall 2007 with offices at SSM St. Joseph Medical Park. In April 2008, she received a three-year ...

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Grubb & Ellis has come out with some interesting data showing subleasing opportunities in the metropolitan area. The brokerage division of St. Louis-based Gundaker Commercial Group Inc. said last week that as more businesses close their doors because of the ...

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