April 22, 2019
Elizabeth Snyder, wife of slain St. Louis County Police Officer Blake Snyder, and Dick Snyder, Blake Snyder’s father, react to the sentencing of Trenton Forster in St. Louis County Circuit Court on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Pool Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com During the formal sentencing Thursday that sent
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Officer Blake Snyder with his wife, Elizabeth, and son Malachi. Trenton Forster, who was convicted in February of first-degree murder for shooting and killing Officer Blake Snyder in Green Park in 2016, will be formally sentenced Thursday. After a jury convicted Forster of murder Feb. 8, St. Louis County Circuit Judge Kristine Kerr
[ Read More ]Green Park started a program last year to provide assistance to homeowners who want to fix up their houses, above and beyond the city’s existing partnership with St. Louis County to allocate Community Development Block Grants for grants to residents. “I take great pleasure in announcing to Green Park homeowners a new city-funded grant program
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Gov. Mike Parson hosted the largest crowd in his office so far to see him sign a bill renaming Lindbergh for the late Rep. Cloria Brown Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill renaming a South County highway after the late Rep. Cloria Brown last month in a ceremony that brought together Brown’s family with
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Lindbergh National Honor Society students led members of the public on tours of Lindbergh High School on March 13. The tour was to show the public the improvements needed for the high school, which will be funded by the passing of Prop R. Photo by Erin Achenbach. By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Lindbergh students celebrating Prop R, as posted on the district’s Facebook page. Lindbergh voters overwhelmingly approved Prop R, a $105 million, 83-cent no-tax-rate-increase bond issue to build a new revitalized Lindbergh High School, secure its campus and improve safety at several of the district’s schools by adding secure front entrances. More than 77
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Footage of the arson at Kutis Funeral Home being extinguished by the Mehlville Fire Protection District. Photo from Fox 2 Skyfox. The Kutis family is offering an extra $10,000 reward to try to find whoever intentionally set one of the family’s funeral homes on fire two weeks ago. Police said someone threw two “fire-starting
[ Read More ]Citizens vote at the Sunset Hills Community Center April 2, 2019. Photo by Erin Achenbach. South County Election Results So far, only absentee ballots are in for South County. This is a developing story, stay tuned for updates. The $105 million, 83-cent Lindbergh Proposition R no-tax-rate-increase bond issue to build a new Lindbergh High School
[ Read More ]Subscribers to The Call’s email newsletter received this election guide before anyone else in their inboxes Friday. To subscribe for free, click here. Call Newspapers Election Guide 2019 ✅ 🇺🇸 It’s finally spring weather this week! But that also means that the April election is right around the corner. Election Day is Tuesday, April 2,
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Secretary Ed Ryan reconvenes a meeting of the Mehlville Fire Protection District Board of Directors last year with the payment of bills. Photo by Jessica Belle Kramer. By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com The Mehlville Fire Protection District has the lowest tax rate of any fire district in St. Louis County this year for
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