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South St. Louis County News

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Candidate filing underway for April 2024 municipal and school board elections

Candidate filing underway for April 2024 municipal and school board elections

By Erin Achenbach, News Editor December 11, 2023

Candidate filing for next April’s municipal and school board elections is currently underway. Filing for the April 4 elections began at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, and will continue until 5 p.m. Tuesday,...

Kevin Schartner.

Former Mehlville BOE director announces bid for County Council

By Erin Achenbach, News Editor November 22, 2023

Former Mehlville Board of Education member Kevin Schartner announced Nov. 10 that he will be running for the 6th St. Louis County Council District in next year’s election. Schartner served on the Mehlville...

Kevin Schartner

Mehlville’s Kevin Schartner announces 6th District run

November 14, 2023

Former Mehlville Board of Education member Kevin Schartner announced Nov. 10 that he will be running for the 6th St. Louis County Council District in next year’s election. Schartner served on the Mehlville...

Two South County elected officials fined by ethics commission

By Erin Achenbach, News Editor October 11, 2023

Two South County elected officials were recently fined by the Missouri Ethics Commission regarding their April municipal election campaigns. According to reports from the MEC, both Sunset Hills Ward...

State Rep. Jim Murphys pledge for congressional term limits. Murphy represents the 94th District, which includes Oakville, in the Missouri House of Representatives.

Rep. Jim Murphy pledges support for congressional term limits

September 3, 2023

Missouri state Rep. Jim Murphy, R-Oakville, announced last month that he supports term limits on Congress. The announcement came in a press release from the nonpartisan group U.S. Term Limits, whose...

Some of the classes held by the Crestwood Parks and Recreation Department at the Crestwood Community Center include children’s ballet classes. In a 2019 class, Sandy Book teaches cousins Caroline Kulik, left, and Audrey Flesch a relieve during
the preschool ballet, tap and jazz class.

Possible new Crestwood Community Center would require voter approval

By Ellie Marshall, Staff Reporter July 19, 2023

Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated where the construction site is for the new community center. The three proposed locations are the "sledding hill" and ballfield at Whitecliff Park...

Voters check in to cast their ballots at the Sunset Hills Community Center during the April 2019 municipal election.

St. Louis County election board begins voter canvass

July 12, 2023

The St. Louis County Board of Elections has begun its biennial voter audit. Registered voters in the county have started to receive identification cards as part of the state-mandated audit. The biennial...

From left: Matt Alonzo, Christy Watz and Andrew Lawson take their oath of office at the Lindbergh Board of Education meeting April 13. Alonzo and Watz, both incumbents, and Lawson, defeated a field of five candidates in the April 2023 election for the three open seats on the board.

School board director wants to make district an ‘even better place to learn’

By Jeremy Housewright, For the Call June 13, 2023

A Lindbergh Board of Education member since 2017, Matt Alonzo will remain on the board for at least three more years, after being reelected in the April municipal elections. Alonzo was reelected alongside...

Wesley Bell is sworn in as the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney by Judge George W. Draper III i January 2019, after defeating former Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch in an historic upset. Bell is the first Black prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County in its history.

St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell enters Missouri’s US Senate race

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent June 13, 2023

Wesley Bell, who shocked the Missouri political establishment in 2018 by defeating a seven-term incumbent to become St. Louis County prosecutor, announced Wednesday he was running for U.S. Senate. Bell,...

From left: Matt Alonzo, Christy Watz and Andrew Lawson take their oath of office at the Lindbergh Board of Education meeting April 13. Alonzo and Watz, both incumbents, and Lawson, defeated a field of five candidates in the April 2023 election for the three open seats on the board.

New Lindbergh school board director ready for first venture into public service

By Jeremy Housewright, For The Call May 24, 2023

Of the three members elected to the Lindbergh Schools Board of Education in April, only one candidate, Andrew Lawson, was new. Lawson was elected alongside incumbents Matt Alonzo and Christy Watz in a...

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