South St. Louis County News

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South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

Grad Salute: Lindbergh High School Class of 2021

May 30, 2021

Congratulations Lindbergh High School seniors on a fantastic achievement. To see this year’s Grad Salute and greetings from the South County business community, celebrate with the May 27 print edition...

In this December 1979 black-and-white photo submitted in the 1980s to the National Register of Historic Places, the view of the house is seen from the southeast.

Crestwood eyes moving cabin

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor May 29, 2021

The city of Crestwood is taking bids to see what it could cost to move a 200-year-old historic log cabin from Affton to the Historic Sappington House in Crestwood, doubling the number of Sappington houses...

Chambers are joining together and merging

Chambers are joining together and merging

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor May 28, 2021

South County started 2021 with four chambers of commerce, and it now has two as the longtime organizations are joining together or merging. The Crestwood-Sunset Hills Area Chamber has a new and more regional...

Jonathan Williams

New chief enjoying Crestwood

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter May 28, 2021

Crestwood welcomed a new police chief to its department earlier this year after hiring Jonathan Williams, a former lieutenant with the Webster Groves Police Department. Williams is taking the helm from...

Former St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch is sworn in as the 3rd District St. Louis County Councilman by Judge Dean P. Waldemer while with his wife and family on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. Fitch won the November 2018 election to replace former 3rd District Councilwoman Colleen Wasinger, who did not seek re-election.

Fitch looks back on his tenure

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter May 27, 2021

St. Louis County Councilman Tim Fitch is over halfway through his first four-year term representing the 3rd District, and is looking forward to getting the economy back on track after the pandemic while...

School districts see influx of federal funds

School districts see influx of federal funds

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter May 27, 2021

Every South County school district will be using an influx of federal money over the next three years to address challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, in what one local school leader is calling...

Lindbergh Schools Superintendent Tony Lake at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Lindbergh High School in 2020.

Three years in as superintendent, Lake looking ahead for Lindbergh

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor May 26, 2021

Superintendent Tony Lake has spent three years at the helm of Lindbergh Schools and is set to lead the district for at least another three after the Board of Education extended his contract through 2024. After...

An Affton Fire Protection District fire engine.

Crestwood loses lawsuit to Affton Fire District, will continue to pay for annexing forever

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor May 26, 2021

The four-year legal battle to determine whether Crestwood has to continue paying the Affton Fire Protection District for fire service for annexed residents is over after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled...

Sunset Hills will take over 911 dispatching for Crestwood in collaboration with police

Sunset Hills will take over 911 dispatching for Crestwood in collaboration with police

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter May 26, 2021

Sunset Hills will start providing police dispatching services for neighboring Crestwood this July, after aldermen in both sister cities approved a contract this month that holds neither liable if things...

The Kassebaum Building, at the corner of Butler Hill Road and Lemay Ferry.

Historic preservation returns as buildings are threatened

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor May 25, 2021

With no historic preservation ordinance in St. Louis County and a wave of developers looking for sites to build, unincorporated South County is losing some historic structures as three separate structures...

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