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Series of bathroom threats at Bernard Middle appear to be copycat incidents after Washington Middle School evacuation

Series of bathroom threats at Bernard Middle appear to be copycat incidents after Washington Middle School evacuation

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor April 2, 2021

Threats were scrawled in two different bathrooms at Bernard Middle School the last two days, in what could be copycat incidents imitating bathroom threats that prompted students’ evacuation from Washington...

Students at Oakville Elementary participate in Kids Voting for the November 2018 election.

Read all The Call’s candidate questionnaires for the April 6 election

April 2, 2021

The Call’s candidate questionnaires offer the most complete glimpse you’ll find of candidates’ views leading up to an election. View a complete collection of the Call candidate questionnaires for...

Our Call: Vote yes on MSDs Proposition Y, but no on all its other propositions

Our Call: Vote ‘yes’ on MSD’s Proposition Y, but ‘no’ on all its other propositions

April 1, 2021

The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District has a $500 million bond issue, Proposition Y, on the ballot April 6. Prop Y will fund five years of needed upgrades for MSD’s “Project Clear” consent decree...

Heres what to know about the MSD propositions on the April 6 ballot

Here’s what to know about the MSD propositions on the April 6 ballot

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor April 1, 2021

The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District has a $500 million bond issue, Proposition Y, on the ballot April 6, along with five proposals that would make changes to the charter under which MSD operates MSD...

Pictured are Tori Behlke, left, and Patrick McKelvey, who are both running for two available seats on the Mehlville Board of Education in the election April 6, 2021.

Two candidates file for Board of Education election in Mehlville

April 1, 2021

Two Mehlville School District residents filed their candidacy for two positions in the April 6 election on the Mehlville Board of Education, incumbent Tori Behlke and Patrick McKelvey, a newcomer to the...

Fresh produce distribution at the St. Louis County Library in 2020.

Libraries begin their process of reopening

April 1, 2021

The St. Louis County Library is reopening all 20 of its branches in phases, with all locations currently open by 45-minute appointments as of March 23. Appointments are available for browsing and computer...

A paramedic from the Fenton Fire Protection District gives a COVID-19 vaccine shot to a woman in the community room at the Affton Fire Protection District headquarters on Gravois Road while St. Louis County Executive Sam Page visited Feb. 12, 2021.

Mass vaccine events (finally) come to South County in coming weeks

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor March 31, 2021

South County seemed to be the last part of the region that had not ever hosted a COVID-19 mass vaccination event, but now multiple events are happening over the next week. The state and St. Louis County...

Buffaloes along Lemay Ferry Road? Inflatable turkeys along Telegraph? Supporters of the Mehlville School District’s Proposition S bond issue donned eye-catching costumes at the 2021 ‘donut drive-thru’ at Mehlville High that featured MHS students, above, with junior Emma Maxwell as the Bierbaum Buffalo mascot. Similar sign rallies were also held in Oakville. Another ‘donut drive-thru’ to rally for Prop S was set at the same schools Saturday, April 3.

Supporters of Mehlville’s ‘Proposition S’ make case for first bond issue since ‘92

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter March 31, 2021

Supporters of the Mehlville School District’s Proposition S on the ballot Tuesday, April 6 are hoping the school district’s voters  do something they haven’t done since 1992 — approve a bond issue. Proposition...

Members of the Visiting Nurses Association, National Guard, county employees and volunteers help administer the vaccine at a mass COVID-19 vaccination site in Ferguson in February 2021.

Here’s how to register for COVID vaccine

March 29, 2021

The three mass vaccination events happening in the coming days in South County are pulling registrations from the county and state lists. The county Department of Public Health recommends that residents...

Satellite voting sites open for early voting

Satellite voting sites open for early voting

March 29, 2021

The St. Louis County Board of Elections is open for in-person early voting ahead of the election Tuesday, April 6, along with four satellite sites throughout the county. The satellite sites operate from...

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