By Ralph Echtinaw As editor and publisher (and sole employee) of the St. Louis Sentinel, I have attended many meetings of the school board and city council for three years now. The […]
Sinkhole avoided as alert Water Dept. employee discovers water main leak
At this point another locator was dispatched and marked the water leak area. “If we waited, the intersection could have washed out and created a big sinkhole,” Abbott said.
Water main failure on South Main at Tyrell repaired
By Ralph Echtinaw DPW and Water Department personnel were mobilized on Friday, Jan. 29, to fix a water main break on the west side of South Main at Tyrell, and didn’t finish […]
Dial-a-Ride bus service expanding soon in wake of millage approval last fall

By Ralph R. Echtinaw Expanded Dial-a-Ride bus service in St. Louis, Ithaca and Pine River Township should begin in April and be fully staffed by October, following voter approval of a millage […]
Police officers Crowther and Morell discover city hall flooding, avert disaster

By Ralph Echtinaw St. Louis narrowly averted disaster recently when a water line broke in city hall, flooding a number of rooms with 4,000 gallons of water. At 11:36 p.m. on Wednesday, […]