By Ralph Echtinaw Santa Claus has been given his walking papers, as St. Louis city councilmen cancelled the Dec. 3 Christmas parade Tuesday. City manager Kurt Giles recommended cancelling the parade over […]
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.
Council approves lease of new wheel loader, ‘the No. 1 workhorse in our fleet’
By Ralph Echtinaw St. Louis City Council members voted 5-0 Tuesday to trade in the DPW’s three-year-old wheel loader for a factory-fresh wheel loader. What’s a wheel loader, you ask? It’s 29,000 […]
Fire Department Activity
This is a new recurring Sentinel feature in which Fire Chief Bill Coty tells us what the St. Louis Area Fire Department does on a weekly basis. Following are the eight runs […]
City looking for a way to communicate with residents during power outages
By Ralph Echtinaw Two power outages in September, especially the one on Sept. 19 that left the whole city without electricity, have local officials thinking about creating a system to alert residents […]
Clapp Park vandalism has city council considering increased video surveillance
By Ralph Echtinaw Vandalism in Oak Grove Cemetery and Clapp Park was a hot topic at Tuesday’s virtual city council meeting, conducted via conference call. “We have been having repeated incidents of […]
