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South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

South St. Louis County News

St. Louis Call Newspapers

Superintendent is retiring after 20 years with Bayless, over 30 years in education

Superintendent is retiring after 20 years with Bayless, over 30 years in education

By Erin Achenbach, News Editor May 24, 2022

Bayless School District Superintendent Ronald Tucker is retiring at the end of the 2021-2022 school year after 22 years with the school district.  Tucker’s official last day is June 30.  Tucker...

Bayless School District superintendent retiring at end of school year

Bayless School District superintendent retiring at end of school year

By Erin Achenbach, News Editor December 16, 2021

Bayless School District Superintendent Ronald Tucker announced Thursday that he would retire at the end of the 2021-2022 school year after 22 years with the school district. Tucker joined the school...

Isad Menkovic, a third-grade student at Oakville Elementary, completes a math lesson.

Bayless votes for an all-virtual start to the school year

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter August 6, 2020

The Bayless Board of Education voted at an in-person special meeting Wednesday night to begin the 2020-2021 school year with all-virtual school as coronavirus cases in the St. Louis region continue to...

Students at Gateway Dance Conservatory rehearse for the studio’s first full-length production of
Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Nutcracker’ in Pacific Nov. 23, 2019. Gateway is a nonprofit studio that meets at The
Pavilion at Lemay and provides underprivileged dance students with scholarships and other financial
aid, as well as inclusionary classes for students with special needs. Gateway performed ‘The
Nutcracker’ in December 2019 at Bayless High School. Photo by Erin Achenbach.

Bayless looks at all-virtual school for first quarter of year

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter August 5, 2020

As coronavirus cases in the St. Louis region continue to climb, the Bayless Board of Education will vote at a special meeting Wednesday night whether to begin the 2020-2021 school year with all-virtual...

6th District Councilman Ernie Trakas cracks a smile after County Executive Sam Page gives him the pen used to sign an anti-vaping bill championed by Trakas at Hancock High School May 16, 2019.

Vaping bill is the first bill a county executive ever signed in South County

May 29, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com  New County Executive Sam Page may have been the first county executive to ever sign a bill into law in South County this month, as he signed...

Pictured above: A rendering of the middle school expansion. Image courtesy of Bayless Schools.

Bayless wants bond issue for expansion of a junior-high cafeteria, library, classes

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter March 27, 2019

Bayless Schools is proposing a $7.3 million no-tax increase bond issue to voters on the April 2 ballot to address overcrowding at Bayless Junior High School. Proposition 1, if voters approve it, would...

Bayless voters weigh two ballot measures

Bayless voters weigh two ballot measures

March 29, 2018

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor news3@callnewspapers.com Voters in the Bayless School District will weigh two ballot measures next week that the district promises will modernize its aging facilities and...

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