Apfelstrudel – German apple strudel – a favorite dessert of my maternal grandmother.
It was Thanksgiving 1946. Gathered around the table were my parents, my brother and me along with my maternal grandparents,...
In my latest column that ran in the Sept. 28 edition of the St. Louis Call, I explained why I thought September was the cruelest month.
My younger brother contracted polio in September 1964. He was...
To the editor:
Thank you to Bert Juedemann for his letter in the Sept. 28 edition regarding the enjoyable Mehlville School District’s Summer Community Band Concert.
Public schools consistently offer...
To the editor:
Wow, what an exciting story. Tommy Boyd sure kept South County in a turmoil.
If an escaped child molester wasn’t such a serious matter, it could have become a Saturday Night Live episode....
To the editor:
Thank you to the Call Newspapers and editor Erin Achenbach for reporting the facts about our property tax increase that got swept under the rug by the Mehlville School Board and administration....
To the editor:
It is well known that plastic cannot be easily recycled and that it does not decompose. Plastic items that end up in landfill will be there forever. We are leaving a legacy of plastic waste...
In 1922 T. S. Eliot’s famous work “The Waste Land” was first published. This poem was written after the First World War when Europe was a crumbling mess. He opens the poem by stating that the cruelest...
May we all bow our heads in a moment of silence to celebrate and remember one of the true icons in high school sports. The three-sport athlete.
For 30-plus years I have covered high school and college...
Sometimes, development pursued solely for the sake of reducing the number of vacant storefronts and properties may not necessarily align with the best interests of the community
Take, for example, the...
To the editor:
I was privileged to be invited to “A Summer Community Band Concert” presented by the Mehlville School District. It was held in the Nottlemann Auditorium on July 28. This is the second...
