South St. Louis County News

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South St. Louis County News

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South St. Louis County News

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Members of the Visiting Nurses Association, National Guard, county employees and volunteers help administer the vaccine at a mass COVID-19 vaccination site in Ferguson in February 2021.

GALLERY: St. Louis County’s mass vaccination site opens Wednesday

February 2, 2021

St. Louis County's first mass vaccination site, at the Florissant Valley campus of St. Louis Community College in Ferguson, is expected to open for public vaccinations Wednesday.  The county conducted...

A Lindbergh school nurse gets the COVID-19 vaccine at Mercy St. Louis Hospital in January 2021.

St. Louis County to open vaccine sites at Affton, Mehlville, Eureka firehouses

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor February 2, 2021

The St. Louis County Department of Public Health is planning to open two vaccine sites in South County and one in Eureka, in addition to the mass vaccination site set to open Wednesday in Ferguson. The...

Curbside pickup was open at Helen Fitzgeralds in Sunset Hills March 18.

COVID-19 curfew for St. Louis County bars and restaurants extended to 11 p.m.

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor February 2, 2021

St. Louis County extended the COVID-19 curfew for restaurants and bars Monday to 11 p.m. from 10 p.m., a move that will give those struggling businesses one more hour to take reservations at 25-percent...

Outdoor learning in fall 2020 at Abiding Savior Lutheran School in South County.

South County Lutheran schools accepting tours by appointment, celebrating National Lutheran Schools Week

February 1, 2021

More than 8,000 students at 34 Lutheran schools in the St. Louis area celebrated National Lutheran Schools Week, Jan. 24-30, 2021. The schools, members of the St. Louis-based Lutheran Elementary School...

Top 10 Stories of Year: Dominated by COVID-19, but other things happened

Top 10 Stories of Year: Dominated by COVID-19, but other things happened

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor January 30, 2021

It’s never been more obvious what the top story of a year was, as 2020 will always be remembered as the year a global pandemic stopped life as we know it everywhere. But South County also made national...

The Green Park Shop n Save, one of the Shop n Saves in the area that was converted to a Schnucks in 2018.

Schnucks is closing Green Park grocery store taken over from Shop ‘n Save in 2018

January 28, 2021

Schnucks will be closing its grocery store in Green Park in February, the company announced Thursday. Schnuck Markets, Inc. announced Thursday that it will not renew the lease of its store at 5780 South...

Intensive care nurse Nicole Boyer speaks with reporters after being one of the first 20 nurses at Mercy Hospital South to receive the COVID-19 vaccine Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. Boyer, who works in the ICU, has seen the worst of the worst of COVID-19 cases.

St. Louis County announces plan for mass vaccination sites, starting in Ferguson

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor January 27, 2021

St. Louis County will open a mass COVID-19 vaccination site in Ferguson, with plans to open similar sites across the county, but it’s not yet known when the site will open and how many vaccines the state...

Jim Lembke appears at a forum. Bill Milligan photo

Lembke tests positive for COVID-19; two more Missouri senators in quarantine

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent January 27, 2021

Former Sen. Jim Lembke, who once represented South County in the Missouri Senate and is now a staffer for the Senate’s conservative caucus, has tested positive for COVID-19, and two state senators announced...

In a photo tweeted by Gov. Mike Parson, Parson speaks at a Branson retreat in November 2020 to Missouri senators who were not wearing masks including, second from right, Sen. Andrew Koenig, R-Manchester, who represents Sunset Hills, and third from right, Sen. Paul Wieland, R-Imperial, who represents Arnold.

Targeting St. Louis County, Republican lawmakers seek to curb local control over COVID-19 health orders

By Tessa Weinberg, Missouri Independent January 26, 2021

Editor's note: Since this hearing last week, Sen. Andrew Koenig tested positive for COVID-19, and Sen. Bill Eigel said that he had close contact with someone who tested positive and would isolate.  When...

Two children, two adults hospitalized after South County house fire

Two children, two adults hospitalized after South County house fire

January 25, 2021

Five people were injured in a house fire Sunday morning in South County, with four of them — two children and two adults — transported to area hospitals, with one child critically injured. St. Louis...

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