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Latest Neighborhood News

The University City Symphony Orchestra will have a special concert on Sunday, November 20, as a tribute and memorial to Norman Goldberg, who helped found the orchestra fifty years ago.  This concert will be at B’nai El Congregation, 11411 North 40 Drive, 63131, at 3:00 PM.  As usual this concert is free and open to …

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History of University Heights

A HISTORY OF UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS In 1903, B.H. Colby, a St. Louis civil engineer and surveyor, was hired by the University Heights Realty and Development Company to survey and subdivide a parcel of land on a hillside north of Delmar Boulevard.  The design remains a mystery.  E.G. Lewis, president of the Realty Company, head of …

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Neighborhood Trees

Trees Do you know that your subdivision’s urban forest consists of 407 street trees,  including pin oaks, redbuds, sugar maples, silver maples, ginkos, coffee trees, bald cypress, golden rain trees, pears, sycamores, white ash, river birch, dawn redwood, Siberian elm, lindens,  and black gums? As trustees, our responsibility is to keep these healthy, not dangerous, …