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South St. Louis County News

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South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

Letters to the editor

Meramec Bottom driver thanks ‘unselfish’ people who clean up trash

June 24, 2020

To the editor: Here’s a shoutout to the individual(s) who picked up the trash and litter alongside Wells and Meramec Bottoms roads. Thank you very much for your gesture. As a person who has done this...

St. Louis County Council Chairwoman Lisa Clancy, D-Affton, reacts as her preferred full appropriation of coronavirus funding fails to move forward as she chairs the council meeting April 21.

Take our poll: Should the County Council have more control over the $175 million in federal CARES Act funds?

June 5, 2020

Take our poll: Should the County Council have more control over the $175 million in federal CARES Act funds? For context, see this article.

Call makes endorsements for Mehlville, Green Park contests in the June 2 elections

Call makes endorsements for Mehlville, Green Park contests in the June 2 elections

May 28, 2020

Mehlville school board Five candidates are running for three seats on the Mehlville Board of Education: Incumbents Peggy Hassler and Jean Pretto and newcomers Stacey Kenner, Richard Vagen and Jeff Wolman. What...

Call makes endorsements in Sunset Hills elections for mayor and aldermen

Call makes endorsements in Sunset Hills elections for mayor and aldermen

May 28, 2020

Sunset Hills residents donated more pounds of food than any other city to the May 9 “Mayors for Meals” event, a testament to how engaged the city’s citizens are. This year’s election for mayor...

Letters to the editor

Writer asks: Who’s looking out for residents in Sunset Hills?

May 27, 2020

To the editor: This administration ran on keeping Sunset Hills residential. What happened? The residents have had to ward off cluster homes, rugby fields, et cetera — everything against our interests. The...

Letters to the editor

Sunset Hills aldermen support Fribis for ‘what she has done and continues to do’

May 27, 2020

To the editor and residents: Sunset Hills Alderman Dee Baebler keeps suggesting that Mayor Pat Fribis was the only one who knew about the Winter Brothers’ flood-plain project before the construction...

Letters to the editor

Former alderman says ‘deception’ unwarranted in Winter Brothers allegations

May 27, 2020

To the editor: Alderman Dee Baebler keeps pretending that Mayor Pat Fribis was the only one that knew about the Winter Brothers’ flood plain project before the construction began, and she even alleges...

Graduates, step outside your comfort zones

Graduates, step outside your comfort zones

By Carl Hendrickson, For the Call May 26, 2020

She was a failure. Her marriage ended in divorce. She lost her job. She was a single mother living on unemployment benefits. But, as she told the Harvard graduating class in 2008, there are fringe benefits...

World Press Freedom Day is an opportunity to recognize another type of first responder

World Press Freedom Day is an opportunity to recognize another type of first responder

By Kathy Kiely, Missouri News Network May 8, 2020

In this umpteenth week of a world pandemic that has ended too many lives and upended countless others, let’s take a moment to appreciate another kind of first responder. Not the ones who wear uniforms...

Spring has sprung in one Sunset Hills resident’s garden.

Mary Halloran, who lives off West Watson Road in Sunset Hills, shows off her colorful garden full of tulips that bloomed last Tuesday.

Halloran planted the bulbs at the beginning of fall.

Gardener wonders why her Sunset Hills neighborhood isn’t beautified like the others

May 4, 2020

To the editor: I absolutely love spring. I am making a point every year to make sure that my garden has tulips, daffodils and beautiful body trees. I live on West Watson Road, a very busy street most...

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