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Wohlwend Gold Rush

Wohlwend Gold Rush

August 30, 2021

Second graders in Wohlwend Elementary’s Summer Session learn to pan for gold while learning about the California Gold Rush last week. The summer school theme was Adventuring Out West, and students got...

Friendship Village security officer Brandon Soehngen, right, was honored by the Fenton Fire Protection District in February for his quick response to a fire in the apartment of resident Gloria King, left, last December.

Fenton Fire honors Friendship Village security officer

July 25, 2021

A Friendship Village security officer has been honored by the Fenton Fire Protection District for his quick response to a fire inside a resident’s apartment in December.  Brandon Soehngen, a security...

School’s in for summer

School’s in for summer

June 21, 2021

Andrew and Wesley, above, Mehlville School District middle school students in the district’s Summer Session going on in both June and July, went on a quest during science class to find as many biotic...

Lindbergh Class of 2021 follows their dreams

June 4, 2021

Students in Lindbergh High School’s 68th graduating class were awarded more than $12 million in scholarships this year, Principal Eric Cochran said during the May 26 commencement at POWERplex STL. Of...

Lindbergh Schools Lead Nurse Jessica Franklin is the districts 2021 Support Staff Person of the Year. Superintendent Tony Lake surprised her with the announcement Tuesday, April 27, 2021.

Lindbergh head nurse Jessica Franklin named Support Staff Person of the Year

May 10, 2021

Lindbergh Schools named the district's Lead Nurse Jessica Franklin as the 2021 Support Staff Person of the Year "for her tireless, compassionate leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic." Since March 2020,...

GALLERY: Making the makerspace

May 3, 2021

Kennerly Elementary has a new makerspace as of the start of this year, with help from the Lindbergh Foundation. To date this school year, the foundation has awarded $14,903.58 to Lindbergh teachers and...

Above is a rendering of the 100-acre proposed redevelopment Tesson Ridge, consisting of more than 100 single-family homes and villas, a 210-unit apartment complex and 8 acres of commercial sites.

Mixed-use development proposed for 100 acres of MetLife’s campus

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor April 26, 2021

An in-person town hall will be held this week at the MetLife campus in South County about a proposed mixed-use development at the 100-acre site that would include two new subdivisions with more than 170...

PHOTOS: Mass site opens in South County

April 13, 2021

St. Louis County held its first mass vaccination event in South County Saturday, April 3, at South Technical High School in Sunset Hills. Around 2,340 vaccine doses were administered at the event, with...

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...

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.

St. Louis County halts vaccines as shipments dry up from state

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor February 16, 2021

St. Louis County officials paused COVID-19 vaccine efforts last week due to a lack of vaccine supply from the state, despite the county kicking off mass vaccine efforts by opening four vaccine sites and...

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