The City of Arnold, MO extended their contract with Veolia Environmental Services for an additional three years. Veolia will provide weekly trash pickup, weekly recycling and twice-yearly bulk item pickup for 6,700 residences. Veolia has provided the trash service in Arnold for five years.

In an effort to increase recycling, the city of Arnold is providing 65-gallon recycling bins to single and two-family residential houses. Residents already are provided 95-gallon trash bins.

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The Jefferson County Blazers (whom Arnold Talk teamed up with this year as a sponsor) is facing the Stars in the SLABA baseball finals.  The event will be at Fox High School on Tuesday at 5:45.

Go Blazers!

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I'm happy to announce the new mini-banner area for local merchants.  The mini banenrs will show on ever page of the website, and are now available for as low as only $10/month.  This will make advertising to Arnold residents a lot more affordable for local merchants.

Arnold Talk currently averages over a half million hits every month.

For more information on purchasing our new mini-banners, or any other advertising opportunities, see http://www.arnoldtalk.com/target/ 

An infant's death at an unlicensed home day-care center near Arnold should be a wake-up call for better child safety, says a local lawmaker.

"I think the bottom line is that Missouri's weak laws are putting children at risk," said State Rep. Rachel Storch, D-St. Louis, who plans to introduce a package of child-care reforms next January. "We have problems with regulations and we have problems with our complaint process."

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