In today's episode, we talk about the millions of dollars in grant funding the city has received to help provide services for residents. It's money that helps improve traffic flow, infrastructure and recreational opportunities. You can review the grant funding when the city's Finance and Administration committee meeting packets are published (usually once a month).

On the calendar: 

Jan 14 11am-1pm Sunshine Squad Widow/Life Partner loss group @ Wolfersberger Funeral Home

Friday, Jan 25th 11am-4pm Taste of the District 

Jan 30th - April AARP Tax assistance (free) through the OFallon Public Library

Sat, Feb 1st 11am Polar Pub Crawl

Sat, Feb 8th 7am Township Rummage Sale

Happy New Year! We're off this week for the holiday (in what is technically our 200th episode) but stay tuned for new episodes in 2025! 

If you have some downtime over the next week with the holidays, check out the playlist of the most popular episodes from 2024 we compiled.  

After recording this episode, our episode entitled The $1 million weekend in OFallon became our most popular episode EVER (in just 10 days!). 

Here are the other top 5 episodes of 2024:

Economic Update from June (including real estate and housing data) (10:16 mins)

Let's Lead the Rich Bickel Way (11:00 mins)

Secure the Barricade! (22 mins)

Was the City built during a card game? (11:22 mins)

But where will residents live? (10:31 mins)

Great episodes that you may have missed:

You can't build that here! (15:19 mins)

Part 2: You can't build that here! (12:52 mins)

In this week's episode, we share how residents, small business owners and developers have invested more than $99 million new dollars into OFallon thru Nov 2024. After we recorded the episode, new data was released indicating that the new value is $99million, a $25million increase over what we reported in the episode!! This is the value of approved building permits so far and is 34% higher than the same timeframe last year. There are big projects and small, and each make a difference in our community.

You can track new developments using this interactive map. 

On the calendar:

In this week's episode, we talk about the tremendous economic impact of the 2024 season at the Family Sports Park, including the likely record-breaking weekend in June. We also talk about where the tax revenue generated from visitors goes. 

On the calendar, 

We're taking this week off- hoping everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving in whatever way they celebrated. Don't forget the lighted Holiday parade is Sat, 11/30 @ 6pm in Downtown OFallon! 

There are SO MANY FUN things happening!! In this episode, we highlight events happening in OFallon and Shiloh this holiday season!

• Sat, 11/23 9am-noon Thanksgiving Market @ OFallon Station

In this episode, we talk about O'Fallon Neighbors.... a new, hyper-local nonprofit started by resident and entrepreneur, Mike Clark. With the goal of providing personalized financial help to someone going through extraordinary circumstances, O'Fallon Neighbors has already significantly impacted their first Neighbor, O'Fallon resident, Emily George. 

You can support OFallon Neighbors in several ways. 

On the calendar:

• Friday, 11/15 @ 9pm Howl at the Moon 5k

In this episode we talk about some St. Louis area Chambers of Commerce who are closing their doors permanently - and how and why our Chamber is thriving.

Our impact goes beyond hosting networking events- we have a great relationship with Scott AFB and work hard to help our service members whether they're moving to our area or transitioning into the civilian work force.

On the calendar:

• Friday- Sunday Nov 8-10th the OTHS fall theater production of Clue On Stage

In today's episode, we talk about the current Lead In class! We recently graduated 22 young leaders after they spent the last 9 months learning about all of the things that build our community! They understand our potential and challenges and they're ready to serve!

They're such a fantastic group! Applications for the class of 2025 are open and being accepted! 

On the calendar:

• Sat, Nov 2-3 OTHS Band Boosters Craft Fair Sat 9-5, Sunday 10-4