By Ralph Echtinaw The following is a summary of what Downtown Development Authority Director Phil Hansen passed on the DDA members last month. There is one vacant position on the DDA with […]
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Ralph Echtinaw
I am editor and publisher of the St. Louis Sentinel, an online newspaper just for St. Louis, Michigan. I have lived in St. Louis since 2011 and run a window cleaning business called I Feel Your Pane. My journalism experience is 14 years as reporter, editor and copy editor from 1987 to 2001.
Volunteers beautify St. Louis instead of going to church
By Ralph Echtinaw More than 250 people turned out Sunday for “I Love My City Sunday,” an effort by congregations of six St. Louis churches to clean up the city in lieu […]
EPA gets busy with Area Two on Velsicol contamination site
By Ralph Echtinaw After successful decontamination of a one-acre patch of the Velsicol Chemical site last year, the EPA now turns its attention to Site Two, which is so big it must […]
St. Louis schools trustee Gregory Walterhouse resigns
By Ralph Echtinaw The St. Louis Board of Education is short one member, as the resignation of Greg Walterhouse was accepted on Monday, April 15. Walterhouse was elected as a write-in candidate […]
Churches to skip services, clean up St. Louis instead
By Ralph Echtinaw Fresh off their Hope House homeless shelter success, a group of six St. Louis churches will conduct a volunteer spring cleanup on Sunday, May 5, in lieu of church […]
Retail sale of marijuana now prohibited in St. Louis
By Ralph Echtinaw City council voted unanimously Tuesday to enact an ordinance prohibiting the establishment of stores that deal in recreational or medical marijuana. St. Louis resident Walter “Shady” Seyka, 69, provided […]
Credit union buys adjacent buildings, plans expansion
By Ralph Echtinaw The Gratiot Community Credit Union, located in downtown Alma, is expanding. The home office on southwest corner of Center and Prospect will increase in size with additions to the […]
