The claim: A sinkhole drained a lake in Missouri
Much of a 17-acre lake in Missouri disappeared almost overnight after a sinkhole materialized – for the second time in five years.
Pictures of the phenomenon quickly spread on social media. A sink hole opened up and drained the lake, reads the caption for a May 9 Facebook post shared nearly 2,000 times.
Accompanying it, there are two photos of the lake at Lone Elk Park in St. Louis, which show water being sucked down a sinkhole near shore as people watch. The user didn t respond to USA TODAY s request for comment.
Sinkhole appeared over weekend
Nothing says summer like playing in the pool, and St. Louis County Parks has some of the best in the region. Most county pools will open Saturday, May 29. The exception is the pool at the Kennedy Recreation Complex, 6050 Wells Road in Concord, which will open late due to repairs. The projected opening is.
A 200-year-old cabin is one step closer to possibly making the move to Crestwood after the Board of Aldermen approved an ordinance last week for an engineering firm to study what it would require to transport the cabin from Affton.
The 1816 cabin once owned by Joseph Sappington at 10734 Clearwater Drive is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Aldermen voted 6-2 April 20 to contract with consultant Case Engineering to review what would be involved in transporting and moving the house.
The study does not commit the city to actually moving the cabin to the Historic Sappington House Museum, 105 S. Sappington Road. The nonprofit Sappington House Foundation will cover the consultant fees which are not to exceed $26,000 using private donations the foundation has deposited with the city.
Lindbergh Schools and the Concord Farmers Club have reached an agreement for the district to purchase the Farmers Club property located at 10140 Concord School Road. This property will provide Lindbergh “flexibility and space to support its long-term master facility plan for continuous improvement,” the district said in the announcement.
Lindbergh Schools purchased the Concord Farmers Club for its appraised value of $668,000. The land is roughly 3.56 acres and sits next door to Sperreng Middle School.
The Concord Farmers Club opened in 1873 and was in operation for 148 years before closing its doors in January 2021. In recent years it served as an event center that hosted weddings and other events, but it started as a meeting place for farmers to sell their goods. It then served as a library, school and meeting venue as it was passed down from the original farmers to their descendants. Some of its founding members were Adolphus Busch and Eberhard Anheuser.
Editor’s note: This article has been updated after the truck was found due to a citizen’s tip.
A truck was among the St. Louis County Parks equipment stolen in South County in an overnight burglary investigated Tuesday by the St. Louis County Police Department.
Police from the South County Precinct were called to 347 CCC Road in Jefferson Barracks Park at 5:41 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, to investigate a burglary.
“Numerous” tools, construction materials and a white St. Louis County Parks-branded truck were stolen in the burglary, which happened overnight, police said.
The parks-owned truck is a white 2004 Chevrolet 2500, similar to the one pictured above, with a utility-style rear and “St. Louis County Parks” written on its doors. The photo below is an actual photo of the truck, but the other picture shown above is included to give a better indication of what the truck looks like.