Elsberry News

Alderman Kindred believes Mayor is a major part of Police Department inadequacies After a seven-hour hearing last Tuesday evening (June 23), Elsberry’s Police Chief Sam Steward was terminated. The 4-2 (Aye: Boswell, Harper, Kindred and Mahurin; Nay: Copeland and Gladney) decision came after the motion was moved by Alderman Bob Kindred and seconded by Bill Boswell.

After last night's hearing a 4-2 decision was made to immediately terminate Elsberry's Police Cheif, Sam Steward. This decision came after the motion was moved by Alderman Bob Kindred and seconded by Sherill Edelen. The hearing that started at 7 p.m., went on until a decision was finally reached around 2 a.m. this morning.

After weeks of discussion and hearings the decision was finally made by the City of Elsberry’s Board of Alderman to approve a Special Use Permit requested by the Elsberry R-II School District at the City Council Meeting on Tuesday, June 9. The permit, requested by the district to build a bus barn located on the property formerly known as the Khoury League Ball fields was approved.

On Tuesday, May 19, the Lincoln County Narcotic Enforcement Team (NET) investigated a possible methamphetamine lab in the area of the 500 block of South Ridge Road. At that time, detectives located two individuals, who were actively manufacturing methamphetamine. While attempting to make the arrest, one suspect, identified as Travis W. Davis, 29, of Elsberry, escaped from the scene in a motor vehicle.

Sixteen years after his mother's mysterious disappearance, Matt Higginbotham decided it was finally time to burn some of the things she left behind.

The National Weather Service has reported a possible tornado on the ground near Elsberry, Missouri.

A skeleton of a woman found last October, in Pike County has been identified as a former Elsberry woman who went missing 17 years ago and her husband has been charged with her murder.

The husband of a St. Charles woman who was missing nearly 17 years before her body was discovered was charged Thursday with her murder, authorities said.

A body found by mushroom hunters was identified Thursday as Jackie Noel, 28, of St.

A woman drove from her home in Arkansas to Elsberry to celebrate her grandson's 10th birthday.

Ashley Holton, Reporter In a meeting that was reminiscent of a three-ring circus or a sporting event, the almost 100 guests present at last night’s Elsberry City Council Meeting ooh-ed, ahh-ed and challenged calls made by the council members. A round of applause could be heard on one side or the other as the events of the evening unfolded in the City Hall with a crowd that left standing room only.

Ashley Holton, Reporter 4-14-2009 The Elsberry Fire Department recovered a stolen car Easter Sunday in the Mississippi River at the Highway P access. No one was inside the 90’s model white Pontiac Grand Am that was reportedly stolen from the St. Charles area.

I was very impressed by the 4th Street Fountain in Elsberry. It is a carefully restored soda fountain on Broadway - Broadway is perpendicular to Missouri Route 79 along the Mississippi.

A judge has dismissed rape charges against a St. Louis County man already acquitted in the 1991 murder of a Lincoln County woman.

Crews have been busy for the last five months helping clean up in communities up and down the Mississippi River region in Lincoln County. About a dozen men from the Flood Recovery Program have been working in Elsberry since last October assisting with flood cleanup, removing sandbags, brush and debris.

The Elsberry City Sidewalk project was completed this past summer and issues still surround the ramp installed in front of a business along Broadway. Ann Marshall and her husband Jim of The Dawg House Bar and Grill spoke to the Elsberry City Council on Tuesday, March 10 regarding issues surrounding the sidewalk in front of her bar.

The Elsberry School District’s transportation department has earned a perfect score on its annual inspection of the school bus fleet for the 11th year in a row.

The Elsberry Democrat, Ashley Holton, Reporter 3/10/2009 .

Fast-moving storms and straight-line winds caused major damage in several areas of Elsberry on Sunday

The Elsberry Democrat, Ashley Holton- Reporter

Fed-up with the increasing number of potholes and Alliance's lack of progress one man has stepped forward ...

Many homeowners in the Elsberry area are beginning the long process of cleaning up today.