Jefferson Barracks News

CafA© Affton owner Bill Cieslinski and his business partners Bill Raible and Matt Schweiss aren't letting a bad economy stop them.

St. Louis -- In a crowd peppered with patriots on a hot and windy Memorial Day morning at Jefferson Barrack, some Vietnam Veterans stood out with their tattoos, bandanas and facial hair.

Too many of us take for granted or have all but forgotten the effect American soldiers, sailors and Marines had on a generation of people around the world-who are now declining in numbers.

Hundreds of people lined Highway Z Monday afternoon welcoming approximately 550 motorcyclists to Wentzville on the central route's sixth leg of the Run For The Wall journey to Washington, DC.

Located in the old post exchange building at Jefferson Barracks on 222 Worth Road, the Missouri Civil War Museum , when opened later this year, will serve as a museum, education center and library.A It is the goal of the museum to educate the public on not only the civil war in general, but on the impact that the war had in the state of Missouri.A ... (more)

Hundreds of family and friends-many holding signs and balloons-waited anxiously for the return of their solders from Afghanistan Saturday afternoon at the First Evangelical Free Church .

A published poem, The Band , written in the second grade fueled Sandie Grassino's writing bug, and that was literally "all she wrote." A Lindbergh High School graduate, Grassino is finishing up her second book, A History of Sunset Hills .

Gus Nelson, of Grantwood Village, was just 11 years old when his uncle, Jim Larkin Jr.