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South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

Students graduate from Oakville High School in a socially distanced in-person graduation last July.

Grad Salute: Oakville High School Class of 2021

May 27, 2021

Congratulations Oakville High School seniors on a fantastic achievement. To see this year’s Grad Salute and greetings from the South County business community, celebrate with the May 27 print edition...

Fox (white) and Oakville (black) compete May 18 in the hard-fought semifinal win for the Warriors over the Tigers.

Fox girls soccer defeats Tigers when it counts in the semifinals

By Stephen Glover, For the Call May 26, 2021

What started as a dream slowly became reality for the Fox girls soccer team as the Warriors upended Oakville 1-0 last week in the Missouri Class 4, District 2 semifinals. Fox later fell to Cor Jesu Academy...

Oakville High School girls water polo.

Oakville fights for the first-ever water polo state championship

By Stephen Glover, For the Call May 25, 2021

In just their first season of competition, the Oakville girls water polo team reached the state championship game, where they dropped an 18-11 decision to Marquette earlier this month. Oakville (7-2)...

Firefighters remove hazardous substance from Oakville High lab; students were gone for day

Firefighters remove hazardous substance from Oakville High lab; students were gone for day

May 25, 2021

Firefighters were called to Oakville High School Tuesday afternoon to remove a hazardous substance out of an abundance of caution, the school district said. Materials for science laboratories are stored...

The Kiwanis Club of South County-St. Louis awarded a $1,000 scholarship in May to Charlotte Norton of Oakville High School, shown above with OHS Senior Principal Brian Brennan and Kiwanis member Chad Dickemper, a Mehlville School District administrator.

Kiwanis award scholarship to Oakville senior

May 25, 2021

The Kiwanis Club of South County-St. Louis awarded a $1,000 scholarship in May to Charlotte Norton of Oakville High School. Charlotte is the daughter of Derek and Johnna Norton. She will attend Southeast...

Prom, graduation require creativity in 2021

Prom, graduation require creativity in 2021

May 6, 2021

Like everything this year, proms at both Oakville and Mehlville high schools are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and will not happen as usual. A “senior event” that will be an alternative to prom...

Shown above, Oakville High School hosted the Special School District and Special Olympics basketball in February 2020, some of the students last days in school before the COVID-19 pandemic. 

A look back a year ago, pre-pandemic: Oakville High hosts the Special Olympics

March 22, 2021

Editor’s note: Schools are closed to visitors and extra activities right now due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so we thought we’d take a look back at past philanthropic activities at local schools. Here’s...

Mehlville Superintendent Chris Gaines talks to a teacher in a hallway while schools were all-virtual in fall 2020.

All Mehlville students return to school five days a week in person starting April 19, after most teachers will be vaccinated

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor March 18, 2021

All students in the Mehlville School District will return to five days of in-person learning in April, after an assist from a pharmacy owner alumnus to get the district’s teachers vaccinated this week. The...

Five Oakville, Mehlville High students honored as National Merit finalists for 2021

Five Oakville, Mehlville High students honored as National Merit finalists for 2021

February 26, 2021

Five Mehlville School District students have been named National Merit Scholarship Program finalists for 2021, including three seniors at Oakville High School and two seniors at Mehlville High School. Oakville...

An Oakville High School student sews during class as students returned for two weeks in October-November 2020, before the announcement that they would return to all-virtual learning until January 2021.

Oakville and Mehlville high school students will return to four days in person starting March 9

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter February 26, 2021

Students at Oakville and Mehlville high schools will attend class in person four days a week starting in March, after almost a year of hybrid or virtual learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mehlville...

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