Adoptable Pets of the Week

Yorkie and Cocker Spaniel Available for Adoption

Meet Maggie May McMuffin and Sadie.

Meet Maggie May McMuffin Maggie May McMuffin is a 8-year-old yorkie available for adoption through the St. Louis Senior Dog Project. Maggie May McMuffin tries to live up to her spunky name with an equally spunky personality! Although she is a tiny pup she will give you the biggest hugs! Maggie was formerly a puppy mill breeding dog and she is ready to become a beloved pet. She is a very sweet and affectionate girl. Like most other cute tiny pups, she will try to use her size to her advantage and use any human as a pillow and for snuggles. Maggie May would make a great addition to any home, in particular a home looking for a companion lap dog. If you would like to meet Maggie May or any of our other adoptable senior and not so senior dogs…

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Plant Picks

Blooms Abound From 'Inca Ice' Peruvian Lily

Each week Sugar Creek Gardens introduces us to a garden show-stopper.

'Inca Ice' Peruvian Lily, Alstroemeria Why pay for expensive cut flowers when you can easily grow your own? This outstanding new variety delights us with exotic flowers with alternating petals of soft apricot pink and creamy yellow. Each incredible flower stalk will produce 20 or more flowers that lasts for days in the garden and the vase. 2-3' tall, sun to part shade perennial. Thank you to Sugar Creek Gardens for teaching us about the 'Fire Spinner' Ice Plant, Delosperma. Like Sugar Creek Gardens Facebook to stay up-to-date on nursery happenings and more beautiful photos.

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Patch Political Potpourri

PBS Focuses on Missouri's Payday Loan Initiative This Weekend

The national program airing Saturday and Sunday will focus on initiative petition campaigns tied to capping interest rates at 36 percent.

A Missouri ballot initiative aimed at curtailing interest rates at “payday loan” entities is getting some national attention. For an episode of PBS’s Need to Know, airing locally this weekend, the program traveled to the Show Me State to follow around activists who are collecting signatures for an initiative petition. If the ballot measure makes it to the ballot and if voters approve it, interest rates on certain lending companies would be capped at 36 percent. Supporters of the initiative argue that the loan agencies place poorer Missourians in a cycle of debt. But opponents counter that the entities are usually the only way lower-income citizens can obtain short-term loans to pay ordinary expenses. While supporters of the initiative …

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Internet Pushes Kirkwood Movie Toward Big Screen

“Casualties of the State” enters post-production after an outpouring of online donations.

Crowd-funding, a form of supporting artistic projects through small online donations, can give moviemakers the push they need to see their visions through or fall on blind eyes. For independent film Casualties of the State, Internet users saw the potential of the Kirkwood-produced FBI thriller and stepped up to the plate. Casualties of the State, a film that examines political elites profiting at the expense of U.S. lives, needed $5200 to cover post-production costs such as sound mixing, special effects, color correction and a musical score. Its crowd-funding campaign on IndieGoGo kicked off March 23. By the time funding closed May 7, the movie had netted $6000. Before the start of the campaign, writer and producer Alan Lamberg, a full-…

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St. Louis County 8 Most Wanted Fugitives

To report a sighting of this person or any of the individuals on St. Louis County's Most Wanted list, please call 314-615-4692 or contact St. Louis Regional Crimestoppers at 866-371-8477 (TIPS).

The St. Louis County Police Department website updates its Most Wanted list as fugitives are apprehended. The list currently includes suspects wanted for child kidnapping, tampering with vehicles, robbery, forgery, felony domestic assault, armed criminal action, statutory rape, distributing and manufacturing controlled substances and resisting arrest. Among current suspects is Ronne Clay Jr., whose photo accompanies this article. His last known address was Florissant, and he is wanted for second-degree robbery, making false declarations, assaulting an officer, stealing, and resisting with a felony arrest. Click here to see photos and details about the other seven, top suspects wanted in St. Louis County. To provide information on the …

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Patch Political Potpourri

Missouri's U.S. Senate Candidates Stir Up Novel Approaches For Fundraising

Country music and laryngitis are two of the methods employed this week.

The last few iterations of this column have noted how several candidates for the U.S. Senate utilized creative means to entice fundraising efforts. For instance, Rep. Todd Akin (R-Wildwood) used his rhetorical scuffle with President Barack Obama over student loans in a fundraising pitch.   And Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has directly attacked third-party organizations that are pre-emptively attacking the incumbent lawmaker as she makes a difficult bid for re-election. McCaskill’s campaign staff continued on a creative path in an email that was sent to supporters earlier this week. They played on the fact that McCaskill had lost her voice right before she was supposed to make a speech at a Democratic gathering in Kansas City. “Between …

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Traffic Ahead: MoDOT Reports Ongoing Closures Only, This Week

Missouri Department of Transportation reports no work zones for St. Louis County or Jefferson County for the week of May 17 to May 23.

  Motorists should be aware of the following on-going closures:

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