Super Sleuth of the Day, wishing to remain Anonymous, discovered Country Ridge Drive at Baxter Road will remain closed another eight weeks. That puts opening about the first of December. Country Ridge Drive is a fairly well-used residential thoroughfare running from essentially Chesterfield Parkway to Clarkson Road—across from Marquette High School. Residents at the intersection of Baxter Road and Country Ridge Drive have had easements on the edge of their lawns torn up and blocked with the widening of Baxter Road by St. Louis County. Country Ridge crosses Baxter Road between Clayton and …

Baxter Road opens Friday at Edison and Old Chesterfield Airport Road, after being closed for several weeks. The route—often known as the "back way" to Walmart among locals in Chesterfield—crosses little-used railroad tracks and saves drivers from getting on Highway 40/64 going west and the potential for high-speed drama, in a simple trip to shop at Walmart in Chesterfield Valley. There are hundreds of other stores, restaurants, services and Chesterfield's airport as well in that area, beginning where Baxter Road meets Edison and Highway 40/64. A resourceful Patch user—female—who did not want …