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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Home Considered for Historic Registry

A house located at 1537 Clayton Woods Ct. recently was recommended to be added to Wildwood's historic registry. It dates back to 1891.

Although it has a modern-day swimming pool in its yard, the house located at 1537 Clayton Woods Ct. has seen a wealth of Wildwood's history. Previous owners of the residence, Timothy Herter and Kathleen Freemann, applied for it to be put on the city's historic registry. The new owners who just moved in this month, Kimberly and Jason Derucki, added the historic designation to the list of things they loved about the property. Called the Ben Baumer House after its owner in 1891, it was added to through the years with improvements and room additions. The former address was 246 Strecker Rd. It is located in Ward 4. Wildwood's Historic Preservation Commission recommended the house be placed on the registry after reviewing the 13 established …

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Projects Worth $6M Approved for Wildwood

Bridges will be replaced, roads will be resurfaced and and major improvements to Missouri Route 109 are planned.

Applications for federal funding worth approximately $6 million recently were approved, Wildwood city engineer Ryan Thomas announced at the July 11 city council meeting. City council members voted to proceed with the following projects: City council member David Geile, Ward 1, asked if Wild Horse Creek Road at the bridge would be widened during the project. Thomas, who also is director of public works for the city, affirmed improved road alignments would be executed in the new projects wherever possible. Thomas said an application for a fourth project, improvements to Route 109 at Pond-Grover Loop Road, also was approved, and will be on the July 25 city council agenda. This project was approved for $4,505,418 in federal funding to widen …

Larry Graubart

10:39 am on Tuesday, July 19, 2011

It would be proper and fair to give attribution to the Obama Administration economic policy for jump starting he economy to this infra structure work. The same thing is happening here in California...Unfortunately the opposition party tries to ruin this program, denigrate it and continues to praise the Bush administration for debt-spending in the futile, nonlegal Iraq war of 10 years. Has nothing…   more ›

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