‘Community Food Drive for COVID-19’ will distribute 1,000 care packages to families in need

May 6, 2020

Police officers and firefighters in South County will be distributing 1,000 boxes of nonperishable goods Thursday in a “Community Food Drive for COVID-19” aimed at those in need. The care package distribution will take place from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 7, at the parking lot of St. Matthia...

Mehlville Fire is weathering COVID-19 crisis with mobile screening

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor

May 2, 2020

Some fire districts in St. Louis County have reported problems handling an increased number of calls while running out of the personal protective equipment needed to fend off the coronavirus. But for the Mehlville Fire Protection District, the story is the opposite: Calls are down overall, and the distr...

Mehlville Fire Protection District launches mobile healthcare screenings for COVID-19

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor

April 9, 2020

A dedicated unit of Mehlville Fire Protection District critical-care paramedics will perform in-home health screenings for district residents who are experiencing coronavirus symptoms through a new “COVID Mobile” program that launched this week. The new COVID Mobile program will not administer COV...

Missouri first responders affected by COVID-19 will receive compensation

By Jordan Meier, Missouri News Network

April 8, 2020

A first responder’s job is not easy, and with the COVID-19 outbreak their jobs have gotten harder and more dangerous. Across Missouri, police officers, firefighters and EMTs have contracted COVID-19. Gov. Mike Parson and Annie Hui, the director of the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Rel...

Some areas of South County, St. Louis County hit harder than others by coronavirus

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor

April 3, 2020

Updated at 4:25 p.m. April 3 with update on Crestwood and Sunset Hills, plus more North County ZIP codes.  Some areas of South County and St. Louis County are being hit harder by the coronavirus than others, according to data the county released Friday that for the first time breaks down the county...

Thank you to Mehlville Fire paramedics who rescued a local woman

April 1, 2020

Letters to the Editor To the editor: I want to publicly express my gratitude to the professional EMTs of the Mehlville Fire District who treated me in my time of respiratory distress from pneumonia and heart-related issues. I always felt that I would make it because of the way the EMTs treated me o...

Mehlville firefighters with cancer will get coverage

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter

April 1, 2020

The Mehlville Fire Protection District will begin to offer enhanced benefits to employees diagnosed with cancer after the Board of Directors approved changes to the fire district’s employee manual last month. Board members unanimously approved the changes to the Employee Manual of Policies and Procedur...

Mehlville Fire ambulances now safer for medics

January 28, 2020

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com The Mehlville Fire Protection District is looking at ways to make its ambulances safer for paramedics, who have to stand up while working on patients. The MFPD Board of Directors unanimously approved a change order for its three ambulanc...

Top 10 Stories of the Year: Merger, Stenger and trolley place regionalism on St. Louis center stage

January 9, 2020

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com With the leaked news that nonprofit organization Better Together was proposing a sweeping city-county merger that would merge St. Louis County and St. Louis city into one new “megacity” that would be one of the largest cities in the nat...

Mehlville fire district has the lowest tax rate of any county fire district for 14th year in a row

December 31, 2019

By Erin Achenbach Staff Reporter eachenbach@callnewspapers.com The Mehlville Fire Protection District has the lowest tax rate of any fire district in St. Louis County for the 14th year in a row. The Board of Directors unanimously set its 2019 tax rate  — which governs how much taxpayers paid in their ...