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St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

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Lindbergh Board of Education passes 2022 blended tax rate; some increase

Lindbergh Board of Education passes 2022 blended tax rate; some increase

By Lucas Irizarry, Staff Reporter September 21, 2022

The Lindbergh Board of Education unanimously approved its 2022 blended tax rate Sept. 15. The rate includes the lowest possible residential tax rate in the state.  The board approved a $3.9332 blended...

Lindbergh passes 2021 blended tax rate, residential rate is lowest allowed by state

Lindbergh passes 2021 blended tax rate, residential rate is lowest allowed by state

By Lucas Irizarry, Staff Reporter October 7, 2021

The Lindbergh Board of Education unanimously approved the 2021 blended tax rate at its annual tax rate hearing Sept. 16.  The Board of Education approved a blended tax rate of $3.8276, a slight decrease...

School districts see influx of federal funds

School districts see influx of federal funds

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter May 27, 2021

Every South County school district will be using an influx of federal money over the next three years to address challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, in what one local school leader is calling...

Lindbergh Schools Superintendent Tony Lake at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Lindbergh High School in 2020.

Three years in as superintendent, Lake looking ahead for Lindbergh

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor May 26, 2021

Superintendent Tony Lake has spent three years at the helm of Lindbergh Schools and is set to lead the district for at least another three after the Board of Education extended his contract through 2024. After...

The empty Crestwood mall site, with the buildings demolished and the site leveled, as seen in May 2019.

Crestwood TIF Commission starts meeting tonight on mall redevelopment

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor February 4, 2021

The new developers of the Crestwood mall site are wasting no time seeking new tax-increment financing for the 47-acre former Crestwood Plaza, with the latest version of the Crestwood TIF Commission kicking...

The newly renovated Gym 3 at Lindbergh High School was unveiled last week, ready except for finishing touches.

Lindbergh Gym 3 renovated, ready for action

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor December 16, 2020

One of the first signs of progress on the new Lindbergh High School is a renovated Gym 3, which was completed last week except for finishing touches just in time for basketball season. The Flyers boys...

The ribbon cutting ceremony for the secure vestibule at Sperreng Middle School.

Lindbergh school buildings get secure vestibules

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor November 10, 2020

  As part of Lindbergh Schools’ Proposition R no-tax-rate-increase bond issue in April 2019, voters approved funding safe, future-ready campuses across Lindbergh with single, secure main entrances...

Jack Thayer from Holly Hatfield’s 2018-2019 third-grade class at Sappington Elementary School spent nearly two years coding a math program called ‘Jack Math.’ This program helps students learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. His father, who studied engineering, taught Jack how to code in Python.

Lindbergh moves to 1:1 technology, will buy elementary iPads and high-school laptops

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor June 4, 2020

Lindbergh Schools is going to give a computer to every K-12 student through a 1:1 technology program starting this summer and extending over the next three years, in a decision made even before school...

An aerial rendering of the new Lindbergh High School, facing Lindbergh Boulevard.

Lindbergh takes first bids for new high school, will sell rest of $105 million in bonds

February 19, 2020

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com The Lindbergh Board of Education voted on two important Prop R action items last week, setting in motion the first steps toward building a...

Lindbergh National Honor Society students led members of the public on tours of Lindbergh High School on March 13. The tour was to show the public the improvements needed for the high school, which will be funded by Prop R.

Every Lindbergh school will get a more secure Prop R entrance

January 20, 2020

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com As part of the Prop R bond issue that will fund a new Lindbergh High School, every other Lindbergh school will also get more secure entrances...

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