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From left, Casey Wong, Ann McMunn, Thompson Price and Kurt Krueger are sworn onto the Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen, with Mayor Pat Fribis also being sworn in, center.

Sunset Hills alderman responds to city attorney on her ethics complaint about the mayor

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor June 1, 2020

A Sunset Hills alderman is disputing the city attorney's ruling that text messages sent by Mayor Pat Fribis did not violate the city’s new ethics ordinance. Under the city’s ethics legislation, which...

From left, Casey Wong, Ann McMunn, Thompson Price and Kurt Krueger are sworn onto the Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen, with Mayor Pat Fribis also being sworn in, center.

Sunset Hills alderman files ethics complaint against Fribis over text messages

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor May 29, 2020

A Sunset Hills alderman filed an ethics complaint last week against Mayor Pat Fribis over a series of text messages, but the city attorney decided the texts did not violate the city’s new ethics ordinance. Under...

Students at Oakville Elementary participate in Kids Voting for the November 2018 election.

South County Election Guide 2020: June 2

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor May 29, 2020

Voters will go to the polls Tuesday, June 2 to weigh a number of candidates and in Crestwood, decide on a sales-tax extension. The election was originally set to happen in April, but Gov. Mike Parson postponed...

This aerial shot from Google Maps shows some of the streets of Tapawingo, around Tapawingo National Golf Club.

Tapawingo threatens to sue to stop city survey

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor May 28, 2020

Attorneys for the Manors at Tapawingo subdivision have threatened to take the city to court if aldermen send out a survey seeking residents’ views on taking over the subdivision’s private streets. The...

Call makes endorsements in Sunset Hills elections for mayor and aldermen

Call makes endorsements in Sunset Hills elections for mayor and aldermen

May 28, 2020

Sunset Hills residents donated more pounds of food than any other city to the May 9 “Mayors for Meals” event, a testament to how engaged the city’s citizens are. This year’s election for mayor...

Letters to the editor

Sunset Hills aldermen support Fribis for ‘what she has done and continues to do’

May 27, 2020

To the editor and residents: Sunset Hills Alderman Dee Baebler keeps suggesting that Mayor Pat Fribis was the only one who knew about the Winter Brothers’ flood-plain project before the construction...

Letters to the editor

Former alderman says ‘deception’ unwarranted in Winter Brothers allegations

May 27, 2020

To the editor: Alderman Dee Baebler keeps pretending that Mayor Pat Fribis was the only one that knew about the Winter Brothers’ flood plain project before the construction began, and she even alleges...

Billy Busch, center, with incoming Sunset Hills Mayor Pat Fribis and Ward 1 Alderman Dee Baebler at a Super Bowl party, in a picture posted to Fribis Facebook page for her mayoral candidacy in 2016.

Election tension running high in Sunset Hills

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter May 26, 2020

With general municipal elections looming next week, tensions among Sunset Hills officials were on display at what was supposed to have been the board’s last meeting before the originally scheduled April...

John Stephens, left, and Pat Fribis, right.

Fribis and Stephens face off in Sunset Hills

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter March 18, 2020

Sunset Hills Mayor Pat Fribis will face political newcomer and resident John Stephens for her seat as mayor in the now postponed April 7 election. The election will be held June 2. Fribis, 9843 Sunset...

A No Cluster Homes sign along Robyn Road in Sunset Hills last year.

Mayor calls sign ordinance unconstitutional

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter March 18, 2020

As municipal elections loom the first Tuesday of April, political yard signs for candidates are popping up in municipalities across the county, including Sunset Hills, where its city attorney confirmed...

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