South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

Letters to the editor

Crestwood reader: Citizens have right to debate city-county merger

December 15, 2018

Letter to the Editor To the editor: Glenn Koenen’s Oct. 25 letter to the editor about the city-county merger is a perfect example of why liberals continue to lose, and why, for that matter, they lost...

Abiding Savior students carol for Orchid Terrace and its residents

Abiding Savior students carol for Orchid Terrace and its residents

December 15, 2018

Abiding Savior Lutheran School’s Kindness Club members took a snowy walk to Orchid Terrace last week to spread some Christmas cheer.

Free-range hens (chicken) on an organic farm, freely grazing on a meadow. Organic farming, animal rights, back to nature concept.

Green Park now allows chickens in city limits, joining other areas

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter December 15, 2018

Residents of Green Park can now keep chickens after the Board of Aldermen approved an ordinance this fall that allows residents to keep chickens on their property. Aldermen decided 5-1 in October to add...

Lindbergh High School senior Chloe Fleming shoots the ball during a matchup against Parkway South last season on January 19, 2018. The Flyers fell to South 58-42. Photo by Jessica Belle Kramer.

Lindbergh girls basketball starts strong, faces Oakville

December 14, 2018

By Stephen Glover For the Call With a total of six seniors on this year’s roster, the Lindbergh girls basketball team is off to a solid 3-2 start. “We really like what we have this year,” Lindbergh...

Lindbergh dancers appear in ‘Nutcracker’

Lindbergh dancers appear in ‘Nutcracker’

December 14, 2018

Five Lindbergh Community Ed Ballet Program students danced with the Moscow Ballet’s ‘Great Russian Nutcracker’ at The Fabulous Fox Theatre Dec. 2 and 3. Dancers include fifth-graders Catherine Fitzmaurice...

Beth Templin monitors her mother-in-law Cindy Templin’s reflex responses using sensors in the ActiveStep that feed data to a computer. Photo by Erin Achenbach.

Tripping seniors helps make them steady

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter December 13, 2018

Tripping seniors could make them steadier on their feet — at least that’s the idea behind ActiveStep, a modified treadmill designed to help seniors and others with risks of falling become more stable...

Pictured above: An aerial view of the Sunset Hills Golf Course, with the location of the proposed rugby park in green. Rendering courtesy of the St. Louis Bombers Rugby Club.

Sunset Hills looking at its options for 122-acre golf course donation

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter December 13, 2018

Sunset Hills has a new city-owned golf course that could serve as a park and as a bonus, might even get a new sports team to root for if a rugby club builds its playing fields on the property. The 122...

Letters to the editor

Private school parents, taxpayers should get to use vouchers

December 13, 2018

Letter to the Editor  To the editor: I have never written a letter to a newspaper, but after reading Terry Bilheimer’s Oct. 11 letter, “Call should not have printed Koenig’s evolution ideas,”...

Incumbents see little opposition in south countys first day of candidate filing

Incumbents see little opposition in south county’s first day of candidate filing

December 12, 2018

This is a developing story, and will be updated as new candidates file. Stay tuned. So far, there are no competitive races in south county as candidate filing opened Tuesday for the Mehlville Fire Protection...

Crestwood Elementary School teacher Ann Haberberger welcomes new Lindbergh kindergarten students to class on the first day of school, Aug. 16.

Lindbergh to offer tuition-free full-day kindergarten starting in January

December 12, 2018

Lindbergh Schools will offer district funded full-day tuition-free kindergarten for all students beginning Jan. 7. Lindbergh is the last district in the state to not offer tuition-free full-day kindergarten. The...

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