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Pictured above: One of the classrooms at Lindbergh High School. Most of the buildings at LHS date back to the 1950s and 1960s. Photo by Erin Achenbach.

Lindbergh High School tour showcases aging buildings

March 5, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com Lindbergh Schools officials are asking the public for a $105 million no-tax-rate-increase bond issue to fund a new Lindbergh High School because...

Roughly 20 members of south county Republican groups waved signs in a show of support for 6th District Councilman Ernie Trakas, R-Oakville, at the intersection of South Lindbergh Boulevard and Tesson Ferry Road in 2017. Trakas himself made an appearance at the event with signs against a city-county merger. The councilman is pictured alongside supporter Paul Alvino of Oakville, right. Photo by Gloria Lloyd.

Merger opposition group debuts a website, committee, yard signs

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor February 28, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com A month after Better Together announced its ambitious plan for a St. Louis city-county merger into one new megacity, an opposition group is...

A student at Lindberghs Dressel Elementary School looking through pinhole viewers, and witnessing the eclipse using the special eclipse glasses that were issued to each student.

Lindbergh focuses less on test scores and more on entire educational experience

February 27, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com As Lindbergh Schools is entering the second half of its first year under new Superintendent Tony Lake, the district is changing its outlook...

Better Together Deputy Director of Community-Based Studies Marius Johnson-Malone, left, answers questions about the merger alongside Stenger, Krewson and Washinton University Chancellor Mark Wrighton at a press conference after the  campaign kickoff. Photo by Erin Achenbach.

Better Together says merger could save over $1 billion a year by 2032

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor February 26, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com The backers of a city-county merger for St. Louis County and city are saying that the plan will save taxpayers across the region $55 million...

County Executive Steve Stenger, left, talks to council Chairman Sam Page, D-Creve Coeur, at the Aug. 1 council meeting. Photo by Jessica Belle Kramer.

Stenger balks at legal bills from County Council’s outside lawyer

February 20, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com The outside attorney for the St. Louis County Council wants taxpayers to fund legal bills for its lawsuits, but County Executive Steve Stenger...

MSD wants new stormwater fees in April election

MSD wants new stormwater fees in April election

February 19, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is proposing to tackle flooding and erosion by adding a new charge to the bill of every customer,...

Mehlville Superintendent Chris Gaines went ‘Facebook live’ from Puerto Rico while rebuilding Colegio Bautista in Juncos Jan. 24.

Gaines works up a sweat rebuilding a K-9 school in Puerto Rico damaged by Maria

February 19, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com Mehlville Superintendent Chris Gaines is making his way across the Western Hemisphere as part of his duties as the president of the largest...

The room of Municipal League mayors votes to set up a Board of Freeholders in St. Louis County at Chesterfield City Hall Jan. 24. Photo by Gloria Lloyd.

Grassroots opposition rallies against merger

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor February 14, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com Lines are being drawn in the battle for and against a St. Louis city-county merger, or the “creation of a new city,” depending on how you...

Crestwood would face $3.5 million shortfall to fund current services under a merger

Crestwood would face $3.5 million shortfall to fund current services under a merger

February 14, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com A preliminary analysis by the city of Crestwood indicates that under Better Together’s proposal for one St. Louis metro city, Crestwood...

The Affton Southwest Precinct, as seen when residents decorated the patrol car of fallen Officer Blake Snyder after he was killed in the line of duty in October 2016.

Trenton Forster convicted of first-degree murder

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor February 13, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com After four hours of deliberation last week, a St. Louis County jury convicted Trenton Forster of first-degree murder with an automatic sentence...

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