April 21, 2018
Pictured above: Dressel Assistant Principal Pat Schoenekase finds out that he is the school’s next principal. Photo by Dressel Principal Craig Hamby. With Dressel Elementary Principal Craig Hamby moving up to Central Office, current Dressel Assistant Principal Patrick Schoenekase will take over as the next principal of the new school. The Lindbergh Board of Education
[ Read More ]By Gloria Lloyd News Editor news3@callnewspapers.com St. Louis County and city voters could double the taxes they pay to the St. Louis Zoo if they approve a new sales tax for a zoo expansion in north county. The zoo is asking the County Council to approve a new sales tax of one-eighth of 1 cent.
[ Read More ]Pictured above: St. Charles Prosecuting Attorney Tim Lohmar. By Gloria Lloyd News Editor news3@callnewspapers.com A special prosecutor filed a petition with the court this weekend asking to remove St. Louis County Councilman Ernie Trakas from office because his work as an attorney for public school districts violates the county Charter. The rare “quo warranto” request
[ Read More ]By Gloria Lloyd Staff Reporter news3@callnewspapers.com Rep. Cloria Brown died Sunday night after a long battle with cancer. Brown, 75, is survived by her husband, Frank, her daughter Cathy and granddaughter Ally. Visitation will be held today — Thursday, March 22 — from 4 to 8 p.m. at Fey Funeral Home, 4100 Lemay Ferry Road.
[ Read More ]Rep. Cloria Brown died Sunday night after a long battle with cancer. Brown, R-Lemay, is survived by her husband, Frank, her daughter Cathy and granddaughter Ally. Funeral arrangements are pending. The longtime legislator was on her second consecutive term representing the 94th District in the Missouri House of Representatives, which spans south county from Oakville
[ Read More ]“Call the Tune” by Mike Anthony Executive Editor news1@callnewspapers.com We attended the very first meeting of the Green Park Board of Aldermen, which took place June 1, 1995, at the Tesson Ferry Branch County Library. In April 1995, voters approved the incorporation of the city of Green Park with 614 people in favor and 336
[ Read More ]To the editor: Following the massacre of 17 children at a Florida high school, President Donald Trump declared that something had to be done to keep school children safe. He suggested guns; that teachers and school staff be armed. Trump doubled-down on that idea when he addressed a fawning crowd at the Conservative Political Action
[ Read More ]An off-duty police officer was struck by a fleeing van while arresting two alleged shoplifters last night. The officer shot at the driver of the van, but police said it was unknown if the gunfire struck the driver. The county police officer suffered non-life threatening injuries, including lacerations to his hand, along with a lower
[ Read More ]By Mike Anthony Executive Editor news1@callnewspapers.com Two Green Park aldermen clashed last week over the installation of a sign prohibiting left turns onto Kohrs Lane from the county Department of Transportation’s District 4 maintenance facility at 10996 Kohrs Lane. The Board of Aldermen voted 4-2 to adopt an ordinance calling for the installation of the
[ Read More ]Pictured above: 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. Staff Report The search for the new site of the St. Louis County Police Department’s Affton Southwest Precinct is well underway, and the county
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