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Maggie Rotermund

About Maggie

Basics

Hometown: St. Louis

Cell: 314-616-5665

Email: Maggie.Rotermund@patch.com

Biography

I am a trained print journalist with several years experience. I graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 2002, with a degree emphasis in news-editorial and a minor in political science.

I started my career working for Gannett at The Baxter Bulletin in Mountain Home, Ark. While there, I won several awards for my work including the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Newspapers in Education award for a story on an 84-year-old man learning to read. That story also won a second place in Best of Gannett.

I also won several APME awards for my beat and political writing.

After three years, I decided to move closer to my hometown of St. Louis. I accepted a job as the St. Clair Editor for the Washington Missourian newspaper in Franklin County. While there, I covered the "Baby Abby/Shannon Torrez" kidnapping story from start to sentencing. In the course of reporting the story, I appeared on a KMOX news broadcast, On The Record with Greta Van Susteren and participated in an episode of the Oxygen Network's "Snapped."

After three-plus years at The Missourian, I made the decision to continue my education. I took a year off work and completed my master's degree in international relations. The program, Webster University's Global MAIR, took me to London, UK; Leiden, The Netherlands; Vienna, Austria; Geneva, Switzerland; and Bangkok, Thailand.

Having completed my degree, I am happy to be back home and back in journalism.

I started as the Wentzville Patch editor in 2010 and moved to University City Patch in January 2012.

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Leave a note for your neighbor

Ray Antonacci

2:20 pm on Thursday, December 15, 2011

Maggie, I am trying to post a blog and can't get past the Edit Bio page. What am I doing wrong?

Jared England

3:25 pm on Thursday, March 31, 2011

Maggie, I can see the replies now. Thanks!

Hope

11:12 am on Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Dear Maggie:

Prairie Road Acres is a non-profit organization located in the Wentzville, MO area. We have been serving the local community for 5 years as a camp / retreat ministry, hosting groups that serve people in need in the local community during their stay. In 2011 we are excited about adding horses to our mission so that we can offer equine therapy (horses helping families with special needs children), at no charge to the family. Basically it will be something somewhat similar to a scaled down version of what Therapeutic Horsemanship in Wentzville does, but it will focus on the entire family, in addition to the special needs child. We have talked to Therapeutic Horsemanship and we are starting the process of working with them also. You can see more details about us on our web site at www.prairieroadacres.faithweb.com.

Our greatest need is to get the word out to local families with special needs children, letting them know about our services being offered at no charge, and asking them to participate, and to partner with us to get the word out about our new services staring spring and early summer, 2011. We are hoping that you might be able to help by making an announcement in the local Patch’s throughout the area.

Please let us know what might be possible through your organization.

Thank so much in advance for your kind attention to this request.

Sincerely,

Craig Arbogast
Director – Prairie Road Acres (PRA) Horses
carbogast@centurytel.net
314-494-0605

leon

2:46 pm on Wednesday, January 26, 2011

hello, maggie:

My name is Leon, and i am the manager of China Buffet in wentzville, i just found out that you had a mistake on our open hours on the restaurant list. we are open 7 days a week, but you put sunday closed instead. So please change that for us as soon as possible. Thank you so much and really appreciate it.