A portion of the College Hill neighborhood was added to the 21st Ward during last year’s citywide redistricting. To welcome the new residents to the 21st Ward, this spring we will be rolling out the red carpet — well, more like the asphalt carpet!
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Open/Closed Conference on Vacancy will be at The Sanctuary April 21st
Open/Closed: Exploring Vacant Property in St. Louis is an opportunity for community residents, leaders, artists and activists to strengthen their understanding of the vacant property issue and to develop new ways of seeing, changing and knowing their home city. Open/Closed is not a meeting for “movers and shakers”, it is, instead, an opportunity for those [...]
Romona Taylor Williams & Zhudi Masri
A small group of protestors gathered outside the 21st Ward Community Office last Thursday. The event was organized by two people: Zhudi Masri (known on Facebook as “Zee Man”), a disgruntled middle-eastern corner store owner upset that Alderman French is supporting the efforts of the people of Grace Fellowship Church to challenge his liquor license [...]
Great Town Hall Meeting!
We had a great town hall meeting yesterday. Alderman French answered questions about public safety, recent development projects, and upcoming events in the ward. While State Rep. Jamilah Nasheed gave an update on her campaign for the state senate. Rep. Nasheed also offered information about the numerous other elections on the ballot in August and [...]
We Remain Vigilant!
Homicide is down an incredible 80% in the 21st Ward. So it is frustrating that an incident that started somewhere else ended in our neighborhood with a homicide over the weekend. But we remain vigilant in our mission to make these neighborhoods among the safest in the entire city.
Meeting Cancelled
Due to the icy conditions, we are canceling this morning’s 21st Ward town hall meeting. Be safe outside today.
Neighborhood Leadership Academy now enrolling
The Neighborhood Leadership Academy at UMSL is now accepting enrollment for the 2012 session.
Scenes from O’Fallon Park
Beautiful scenes today in O’Fallon Park. Send us your pics from around the ward and we’ll post them on the website!
21st Ward Targets 50 Homes for 2012
The 21st Ward’s “Block by Block” initiative has rehabbed close to 80 homes over the last two years, helping to transform the Penrose and O’Fallon neighborhoods, as well as the lives of the families living in those homes. But next year, Alderman Antonio French hopes to expand the program even further by targeting 50 homes [...]
New Law Bans Attack Dog Training in Parks
By NORTHSIDER STAFF O’FALLON PARK — In what has become an all too familiar scene on Sunday mornings, a man wearing a heavy padded suit waits by a tree in O’Fallon Park as another man, standing about 40 yards away, releases an excited dog from his leash. The dog darts towards the man in the [...]
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