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Top 7 of Florissant: New Police Chief Announced, Chipotle Talks

We're rounding up the seven top stories from the past month on our site.

By Aja J. Junior
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September 1, 2012

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We’re giving you the lucky seven stories that were some of the most popular reads onFlorissant Patch during the month of August.

7. Florissant residents followed the City Council closely as it discussed the possible Chipotle development as well as changes to the city’s Historic Business District’s permitted uses.

6. Earlier in the month of August, residents gathered details about all candidates for the Aug. 7 primary, including the Russ Carnahan and Lacy Clay race and the 68^th District primary race for the state House of Representatives.

5. Readers wanted to know more about the couple arrested for having 50 types of party pills.

4. The Florissant Police Department had a number of shake-ups in the department as Major Tim Lowery was promoted to chief of police, starting in January 2013, after current Police Chief William Karabas announced his retirement.

3. Readers also wanted to know about the restructuring and transitions of positions of the police department with the retirement and promotion.

2. A Hazelwood School District family riveted readers with the story of Baby Ellie and her struggles with a rare and fatal disorder, and her family’s desire to raise funds to cover her medical costs.

1. Readers and residents expressed their great surprise at the sentencing of Halls Ferry Inn Jazz Café owner Lozell Stiles’ sentence, after he pleaded guilty to arson of the restaurant.

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David C. Couper

2:12 pm on Sunday, September 2, 2012

Congratulations to your new police chief. You can help him out by asking him to review and affirm the 12 qualities necessary for police in our society to hold and practice at: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/policing-our-nation.html. Also visit my blog on police improvement at http://improvingpolice.wordpress.com. (Those qualities are: Accountable, Collaborative, Educated and trained, Effective and preventive, Honest, Model citizen, Peacekeeper and protector, Representative, Respectful, Restrained, Servant leader, and Unbiased.) There also is a new book out that may be helpful in thinking about ways in which police can improve by someone who did it: “Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism, Corruption and the Seven Steps Necessary to Improve Our Nation’s Police” (Amazon.com).