Week in Review: Fatal Fire, Sam's Club, I-70 Toll and New Trails

Too busy last week to stay up to date on all the news happening in and around ? Not to worry. Patch has your back.

In case you missed them, here were some of the top headlines from the last few days:

• A in her bed by New Melle firefighters battling a blaze that destoyed a home on the 1500 block of Meinershagen Road.
• A new trails system planned by the Wentzville Parks and Recreation Department  and cost the city $20 million.
• Construction crews have . An official ground breaking will take place later this month.
• Construction crews are scheduled to begin by March with an eye on having the project completed by August 2014.
• Concerns that to open a satellite campus in Wentzville were "referred to appropriate agencies and/or authorities for further investigation," a city release said.
• Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on his way to claiming Missouri's non-binding primary.
• Making Interstate 70 a tollroad from Wentzville to Independence would significantly , Mayor Paul Lambi said.
• The man whose gun accidentally fired and shot a man at a Wentzville church last month said he carries the weapon for protection during his job as a truck driver and is .
• O'Fallon officials , which is part of the master plan for a new Wentzville high school.
• The Wentzville Parks and Recreation Department will aimed at helping families with temporary or unique financial problems.
• County employee pay issues again will be front and center, as the during a Monday meeting.
• A Wentzville woman accused of having an inappropriate relationship with county sheriff's deputies while working at her government job is .
• Art students at Timberland High School teamed up with the St. Charles County Parks Department to .
• Wentzville Patch introduced what it hopes will turn into a weekly feature—a .
• Last week, our Next Generation columnist gave his daughter's futur boyfriends something to think about. This week, he gave some things girls need to .
• More than a dozen by the Wentzville Board of Aldermen Saturday.