Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Vote for Mark Clements' home for a chance to earn our grand prize for the Lindbergh School District, or encourage other festive Crestwood and Sunset Hills residents to throw their own holiday decorations in the ring.
We’ve launched our annual Deck the House Contest to find the most over-the-top holiday decorations in America—the best “decked” house in the country—the one home so spectacularly decorated that everyone in town jokes your holiday decorations could rival Rockefeller Center’s. If this sounds like your house, upload a photo or video of your home to our contest page from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16. This is the site where you can learn how to enter the contest. Only residents of Patch towns are eligible to enter. We’ll select 24 regional finalists, and from them, pick one grand prize winner. Patch will pay up to $500 of the utility bill for each finalist, while our national winner will have $100,000 donated to his or her local school district. Throw …
Monday, December 3, 2012
Patch is looking for experts who can share their expertise on lights, sales, party planning and more.
Christmas lights, Santa and snowmen are popping up throughout most of our neighborhoods now that it's December. Patch wants to help find the answers to all your questions about decorating for your work holiday party, putting lights on your house and local deals to help you decorate your home, but we need a little help. In the latest edition of "Ask the Patch Pro" we need local experts who can answer readers' questions and offer advice. If you are consider yourself a local expert and can answer these questions and more, let us know two ways. One: You can leave a comment on this post along with your emal address. Two: You can send an email to jordan.lanham@patch.com. We need experts to answer questions on Thursday, Dec. 6. Curious as to …
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Sunset Hills's collection bin is just inside the lobby of its new Community Center.
The City of Sunset Hills is still collecting strings of holiday lights to safely and efficiently recycle, whether the lights work or not. Just drop them into a huge box sitting inside the door of the Community Center on the city government campus at Lindbergh Boulevard and West Watson Road. The Community Center also has a fine, equipped exercise room and skylight gym. There's also free coffee in the lobby, snack machines down the hall, a big screen TV, free wireless Internet connection, comfy sofas and chairs and plenty of friendly interaction. Another TV screen above the recycle holiday lights box provides schedules of classes and activities the Center offers. The Center also is available to rent for your own parties, award events and …
Jordan Lanham
2:11 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Hi Brian! Thanks for the question! I'm no expert, but O'Fallon Patch is doing a "12 Days of Christmas" in O'Fallon shopping guide. Here's a link: http://patch.com/A-0cvc more ›