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Wildwood seeks further review of
noise complaints at Village Plaza
By MARY SHAPIRO
Despite noise complaints and other
issues, Wildwood’s City Council, on Nov.
28, approved an amended liquor license for
the owner of the new Casey’s Bar, formerly
Brothers Bar and Grill, at 16441 Village
Plaza View Drive. However, councilmembers
mandated that a noise and trash collection
study of the bar and its retail strip
center must happen within the next 60 days.
“I’ve spoken to residents around the
bar and I hope the new owner addresses
noise, trash and potential customer behavior
issues,” Councilmember Debra Smith
McCutchen [Ward 5] said. McCutchen
failed in a bid to have the license approved
for only six months, while the city reviewed
complaints.
“I never would have bought my villa if
I’d known music would be played so loud
– I hear it until 1 a.m. – so I’d ask that they
contain the music to inside the bar,” Loretta
Kipper said. Kipper lives next door in a condominium
complex on Newport Drive.
“I’ve had to call the police about noise,”
said Denise Lahay, also of Newpoint. “The
trash dumpster there is emptied at 6 a.m. a
number of times a week.”
Mary Kay Reboulet, also of Newpoint,
said she has picked up bottles and other
trash thrown over a fence into her yard,
West Newsmagazine reporter Jim
Merkel recently released “The Colorful
Characters of St. Louis,” in which
he highlights famous and
infamous residents such as
the master of the malaprop,
Yogi Berra; former TV pitchman
Steve Mizerany; singer/
dancer Josephine Baker;
comedienne Phyllis Diller;
former TV sports reporter Zip
Rzeppa and more.
Lifelong St. Louis area residents
may recognize “that guy
on the overpass,” Raynard
Nebbit, who for decades has stood on an
Interstate 44 overpass in Webster Groves
waving at passing trucks. Merkel shares
Nebbit’s unique story, along with those
of oldies like Redd Foxx, of “Sanford and
Son” fame; and newbies such as caricature
artist Cbabi Bayoc, who once did an album
cover for Prince.
In his epilogue, Merkel describes his
adding, “loud music is played every night
but Sunday.”
Nicholas Casey, with the new bar’s management
company, N. Casey Enterprises,
LLC, contended that there are other businesses
in the center, such as a Mexican restaurant,
that play loud music and are open
late. He added that a bar of some kind has
been on the site for about 30 years.
Councilmember Katie Dodwell [Ward 4]
said she was concerned that the council is
“making one business person accountable
for what could be problems of a number of
businesses in the strip mall.”
“We need to investigate this further, but
not hold him [Casey] culpable for activities
that may not occur behind his bar,” she said.
Councilmember Marc Cox [Ward 4]
added that his mother lived in Newpoint
until November, “and she complained
about trash noise a lot, as well as music
from the Mexican restaurant and some
employees playing music in their cars.”
Councilmember Larry Goodson [Ward
8] said he feared a precedent could be
set with having a time limit on the liquor
license, “when part of the problem is with
trash pickup and with other businesses.”
“I’d prefer we have our police look into
this and talk to the businesses, so everyone
in that center is put on notice,” Councilmember
Joe Garritano [Ward 8] said.
West Newsmagazine reporter pens book
about St. Louis’ colorful characters
own story as “how I’ve frittered away
my life at a keyboard.” Motivated by the
Watergate Era, he earned a journalism
degree at the University of
Missouri. During a reporting
stint at the Suburban Journals,
a publisher asked him
to assemble his stories about
south St. Louis into a book,
which became “Hoosiers and
Scrubby Dutch: St. Louis’
South Side,” published in
2009.
“Write one book and you’re
always an author,” Merkel
said. And so more books followed, including
“Beer, Brats and Baseball: German-
Americans in St. Louis” and “The Making
of an Icon: the Dreamers, the Schemers
and the Hard Hats Who Built the Gateway
Arch.”
Merkel’s book is available at Barnes &
Noble, the Museum of Transportation and
online at www.reedypress.com.
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