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Prom, graduation require creativity in 2021

Prom, graduation require creativity in 2021

May 6, 2021

Like everything this year, proms at both Oakville and Mehlville high schools are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and will not happen as usual. A “senior event” that will be an alternative to prom...

Sperreng Middle School student Daishana Finley of Amber Hardin’s Digital Literacy class shows client Sam Schaeffer of Samtastic Gymnastics her design idea for a new business card.

A look back: Sperreng Middle students take on branding clients

May 6, 2021

Editor's note: During the COVID-19 pandemic while most activities have been on hold, we're taking a look back at past news.  Eighth-grade students at Sperreng Middle School sharpened their skills and...

Shields block individual tables from one another at Robertos Trattoria, using Plexiglas barriers in June 2020.

County, city reopening with no capacity limits

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor May 3, 2021

St. Louis County and the city of St. Louis are open again without any capacity restrictions for the first time in more than a year, although restrictions such as masks and social distancing continue. Under...

Mehlville Board of Education member Jean Pretto and Chief Financial Officer Marshall Crutcher discuss the 2020 budget during a meeting June 5, 2019 at Mehlville High School.

Mehlville’s Prop S yields $3M more in ‘bond premium’

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter April 30, 2021

The Mehlville School District could be receiving more money from its Proposition S bond issue than it had originally bargained for due to lower interest rates, giving the district a chancse to address...

Mehlville Fire Protection District Board of Director Treasurer Bonnie Stegman, left, with Rep. Jim Murphy at the state-run Johnson and Johnson mass vaccination clinic at Bernard Middle School April 3.

Murphy is keeping busy in the Legislature

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter April 28, 2021

Rep. Jim Murphy has had a busy legislative session in 2021 working on state oversight on public-health orders and setting up a mass vaccination event while also conducting a series of food drives in South...

The campaign committee for Mehlville School District’s Proposition S, Mehlville-Oakville United, hosted a donut drive-thru March 13, 2021, at Mehlville High School, Washington Middle School and Oakville Middle/Wohlwend Elementary. The event featured free donuts, “Yes on S” car painting and committee members dressed in costumes to raise awareness about the bond measure, the district’s first in over 20 years.

Mehlville Prop S makes history: Bond issue will fund secure vestibules

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter April 28, 2021

History was made in the Mehlville School District April 6 when voters passed the first bond issue on the ballot in the district since the 1990s, Proposition S, with over 80 percent of the vote. Projects...

Seventh District Councilman Mark Harder and 3rd District Councilman Tim Fitch at a May 2019 meeting.

Boards weigh return to meeting in person

By Erin Achenbach and Gloria Lloyd April 27, 2021

With COVID-19 vaccinations becoming more and more available, the St. Louis County Council and most South County municipalities are eyeing a possible return in late spring or summer to in-person meetings. The...

MFPD Chief Brian Hendricks speaks at a board meeting in 2019.

Mehlville Fire District gets ahead of a microchip shortage affecting Tahoes

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor April 21, 2021

The Mehlville Fire Protection District moved proactively to get ahead of production delays at car factories, continuing through at least May, in order to replace an administrative vehicle on time and on...

Pictured above: County Council Presiding Officer Ernie Trakas gives opening remarks at the 20th JB Blast at Jefferson Barracks Park July 3, 2019. This year,  Trakas was in charge of the festivities, after the resignation of former County Executive Steve Stenger. Photo by Erin Achenbach.

Trakas uninjured as shots fired at his car on interstate

April 20, 2021

Councilman Ernie Trakas was uninjured when two shots were fired at his car while he was driving Friday on Interstate 64 in Frontenac, in what police describe as a possible road-rage incident. Trakas,...

The former South County Cyclery building, 9985 Lin Ferry Drive.

Medical lab set to move from Concord to ex-bike shop site

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter April 20, 2021

A new lab testing facility could move into the building formerly occupied by South County Cyclery on Lin Ferry Road in Green Park, after the bike shop moved its operations to the city of St. Louis during...

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