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Superintendent Chris Gaines asks supporters at a 2015 rally for Prop R to help him get out the vote so that he can hire reading coaches and keep experienced teachers in the district. Behind him are the Mehlville High School Pantherettes and the Oakville High School Golden Girls.

Mehlville school board decides not to place bond issue for facilities on November ballot

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter August 20, 2020

The Mehlville Board of Education declined Thursday night to place a no-tax-rate-increase bond issue on the Nov. 3 ballot, citing concerns that the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic as well the...

Superintendent Chris Gaines asks supporters at a 2015 rally for Prop R to help him get out the vote so that he can hire reading coaches and keep experienced teachers in the district. Behind him are the Mehlville High School Pantherettes and the Oakville High School Golden Girls.

Mehlville Board of Education votes on possible bond issue tonight

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter August 20, 2020

The Mehlville Board of Education will vote tonight — Thursday, Aug. 20 — whether to place a 12-cent no-tax-rate-increase bond issue on the ballot for the Nov. 3 election. The Board of Education will...

Ronnies 20 Cinema movie theater

Ronnie’s Cinema is reopening Aug. 28, along with Marcus theaters in Arnold and Des Peres

August 20, 2020

Ronnie’s is opening again soon, after being shut down since March due to the coronavirus. The South County movie theater will open Friday, Aug. 28, as part of a phased rollout of theater reopenings...

Pictured: The student board of directors of the St. Louis Fed, including three South County students.

Federal Reserve Bank student board features South County high-schoolers

August 19, 2020

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis announced the members of its 2020-2021 student board of directors last week. High-school seniors from across the greater St. Louis area are selected to serve on the...

The Lemay Fire Protection District posted this photo of ServPro cleaning the firehouse in March.

Lemay firefighters back on the job after COVID-19 quarantine; only one firefighter tested positive

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor August 19, 2020

Things are back to normal at the Lemay Fire Protection District this week after all of its 24 firefighters had to quarantine after one tested positive for COVID-19 Aug. 4. The one-firehouse fire district...

Jill Frein, construction project manager for Friendship Village, outside the new assisted-living and memory care building on Friendship Village’s Chesterfield campus.

Friendship Village opens new Chesterfield assisted living, memory care as part of $200M project in South and West County

August 19, 2020

For Jill Frein, construction project manager for Friendship Village, Sept. 8 will be a big day to celebrate. After more than a year of construction, she and her team will open the doors to what the senior...

Suspect is in custody after South County shooting

Suspect is in custody after South County shooting

August 19, 2020

A suspect is in custody after a shooting in Lemay Tuesday night. The South County Precinct of the St. Louis County Police Department responded to a call for service at roughly 10 p.m. Tuesday in the 100...

Members of the Lindbergh High School Class of 2020 graduate in masks at an outdoor drive-in graduation at the PowerPlex in Hazelwood in June 2020.

How-to guide to wearing masks as study proves they work

By Colleen Wouters, Missouri Information Corps August 18, 2020

As Missouri and South County experience their highest number of positive COVID-19 cases yet, several counties and municipalities have begun encouraging or requiring people to wear masks when going out...

St. Louis County Circuit Judge Kristine Kerr speaks to Trenton E. Forster, right, during a sentencing hearing for Forster Thursday, April 18, 2019, in Clayton, Mo. Forster, 20, was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for the 2016 shooting death of St. Louis County police officer Blake Snyder. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

St. Louis County courts continue to limit in-person hearings and trials after employee’s COVID-19 death

August 18, 2020

St. Louis County courts will continue to stay closed to in-person proceedings due to the rising trend of coronavirus cases in the community, including the death of a court employee. The courts have been...

The slide shown by the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force last week that singled out South County as a coronavirus hotspot.

COVID-19 cases continue to rise in every South County ZIP code; task force singles it out as pandemic hotspot

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor August 17, 2020

Coronavirus cases have continued to rise in South County in the week since it was singled out as a virus hotspot in the St. Louis metropolitan region, even as cases began to decline in other areas. Reporting...

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