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Community Call: Connect with community through Call Newspapers

Community Call: Connect with community through Call Newspapers

By Deborah Baker, Publisher February 28, 2025

 Call Newspapers provides mail and online news services for the neighborhoods in South St. Louis County and surrounding areas. Call Newspapers, mailed weekly and available online 24/7 at callnewspapers.com,...

Letters to the editor

Let children play, Green Park resident writes

February 26, 2025

 To the editor: Four years ago, there were 37 portable basketball goals in the city of Green Park. Today, there is one — mine. And I am in a legal battle to keep it. As detailed in the pages of...

Letters to the editor

Writer thanks Crestwood for keeping streets safe during snow

February 26, 2025

To the editor: A big shout out to the Crestwood Road Department. In this day of government agencies not quite doing their job, the street department is a well-oiled machine. They are always right...

Community Call: Remembering my brother, Jerry Dean

Community Call: Remembering my brother, Jerry Dean

By Deborah Baker, Publisher January 24, 2025

My memory and my heart keep a special story about each of my three brothers.  My oldest brother, Jack, five years older than me, took me on an exciting snow sled ride when I was barely old enough to...

Letters to the editor

President Jimmy Carter’s obituary written by local boy scout

January 22, 2025

To the editor: Hello my name is Jeremiah A. Miller. I am a seventh grader from Oakville Middle School and a scout from Troop 648. I am writing to you because the communications merit badge had a requirement...

Letters to the editor

Carl Hendrickson nominated for ‘Toastmaster of the Evening’ by writer

January 22, 2025

To the editor: As a South County resident, I always look forward to Carl Hendrickson’s “Healthy Living” column in The Call. His Dec. 12, 2024, column was exceptional. Toastmasters then and...

Letters to the editor

Writer responds to Frankie, Sandy and Nathan’s Dec. 12 letters

January 22, 2025

To the editor: Everyone has an opinion, and that is our right as thinking beings with free will. I would defend your right to your opinion. However, it is also reasonable to agree to disagree and allow...

Letters to the editor

Give Donald Trump’s cabinet a chance, writer says

January 22, 2025

To the editor: I was glad to see a recent response from a Boy Scout engaged in current political affairs. It shows that his family is providing good direction during a young man’s formative years....

Letters to the editor

A zygote is a human being from the moment of conception

January 22, 2025

To the editor: In response to the “Change the lens, view the body as a gift’ letter printed on Dec. 12, clarification is needed on the line “when fertilization occurs, that zygote some call a...

Opinions and why they matter

Opinions and why they matter

By Deborah Baker, Publisher December 12, 2024

Our Founding Fathers worked to establish common ground on the freedoms they wished to see flourish in the colonization of a new nation.  The lack of a Bill of Rights that would provide basic rights...

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