What were we told about airport expansion?

This post contains portions of a letter sent to all Bridgeton city residents by former Lambert-St. Louis International Airport Director Donald W. Bennett in 1989. Airport expansion will not destroy Bridgeton! In the weeks since the airport planning group announced they had narrowed the study for Lambert expansion to 4 alternatives,  misinformation and rumors have [...]

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Did the proximity of Bridgeton to Lambert Airport mean it was inevitable that we would lose our homes?

A reasonable question and one I hope to answer in this post. I will be posting a timeline of events in the life and death of Carrollton, complete with data, by mid-February. At the time of expansion, Lambert was in a growing metropolitan area. I use the term ‘was’ because, for over the last 20 [...]

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Winter settles in again with no movement beyond the wind in the trees.

I was able to make a quick pass through Carrollton during a return trip to the St. Louis area. Just as I expected, what is left of Carrollton has been quietly decaying. The streets, whether blocked off or open to the public, are becoming rough, cracked, and succumbing to mother nature and father time. Not [...]

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