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By Editor | May 5, 2021
By MARK EVANS
mevans@stegenherald.com
Like syndicated reruns of a classic television show, the Ste. Genevieve County Commission’s warnings about the erosion of Becker road continue to play over and over.
In February 2017, Presiding Commissioner Garry Nelson expressed concern about Fourche a DuClos Creek eating into the road bank. Even then, he was already expressing frustrations about trying to get the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to take the issue seriously.
“We’ve sent letters and pictures,” Nelson said in 2017. “We’ve been playing this game for eight years. It’s four feet from washing out.”
By Editor | March 17, 2021
By MARK EVANS
mevans@stegenherald.com
Scott Schmieder, county road and bridge foreman, reported to the Ste. Genevieve County Commission last Thursday that he had already gotten some work done on Lawrenceton Cutoff Road before heavy rains hit. He said his crews would be back at it as soon as weather permitted.
The crumbling road is the county’s first priority this paving season. A week earlier Schmieder and the commissioners met representatives of Jokerst, Inc. and Vern Bauman Contracting at the road and discussed the upcoming project. They also visited some other roads the local rivals will probably be bidding on, including the intersection of Roth Road and Highway Y.
By Editor | February 16, 2021
By MARK EVANS
mevans@stegenherald.com
Libraries are no longer just about books, Shawn Long reminded Ste. Genevieve County commissioners last Thursday morning.
Long, executive director of the Ste. Genevieve County Library, was reporting on the eight internet “hot spots” being set up throughout the county and was also there to request funding for a special addition at the library.
Long reported that he is working with Big River Communications in getting the eight sites installed. This will allow citizens without reliable internet at home to access it. It is primarily intended for students, who rely more and more on virtual instruction since the coming of COVID-19.
By Editor | January 6, 2021
By MARK EVANS
mevans@stegenherald.com
In addition to battling COVID-19, seeing the Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park established, the Ste. Genevieve Museum Learning Center and the new art guild museum open and other accomplishments previously listed, several other noteworthy things took place in 2020.
One notable thing did
not take place.
For once, the Mississippi River, consummate friend and foe of the old village, stayed within its banks throughout the year.
At one point in the spring, predictions were made that it could be a moderate flood year during the summer. That, however, never materialized, with the river stage actually dropping below four feet at the Chester, Illinois gauge.