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Superintendent Chris Gaines asks supporters at a 2015 rally for Prop R to help him get out the vote so that he can hire reading coaches and keep experienced teachers in the district. Behind him are the Mehlville High School Pantherettes and the Oakville High School Golden Girls.

Voters to weigh in on Mehlville’s first bond issue since 1992

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter January 26, 2021

Voters in the Mehlville School District will decide in April whether or not to pass the district’s first facilities bond issue since 1992. The Mehlville Board of Education voted unanimously last week...

Mehlville voters will consider first bond issue since 1992, Proposition S on April ballot

Mehlville voters will consider first bond issue since 1992, ‘Proposition S’ on April ballot

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter January 22, 2021

Voters in the Mehlville School District will vote on the district’s first facilities bond issue since 1992 after the Mehlville Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday night to place a 12-cent no-tax-rate-increase...

On first day back in school, Oakville High student wears Confederate flag mask

On first day back in school, Oakville High student wears Confederate flag mask

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor January 22, 2021

A student wore a Confederate flag mask to Oakville High School Tuesday that apparently went either unnoticed or unreported by teachers for two 90-minute classes, upsetting students who reported the mask...

With parents and a student sitting behind him socially distanced, Mehlville Superintendent Chris Gaines presents bond issue information to the Board of Education, including conceptual drawings, at the Oct. 15, 2020, board meeting held in person at the Mehlville High School Library. The presentation was ‘very thorough,’ then board President Kevin Schartner said. The meeting was also livestreamed.

Mehlville weighs a 12-cent bond issue

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor January 14, 2021

Voters in the Mehlville School District might get the chance to do something this April that they haven’t done since 1992: Approve a bond issue for facilities. The Mehlville School District is looking...

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

Mehlville elementary students will attend in-person class five days a week

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter January 8, 2021

In a few weeks some Mehlville School District students will attend in-person class for five days a week for the first time since last March, when school districts first closed due to COVID-19. On Friday,...

A Rogers Elementary student is ready to learn on the first day of class in Fall 2020.

Mehlville ties student COVID cases to out-of-school activity

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter January 4, 2021

Some Mehlville School District officials believe out-of-school activities may be why they are seeing more positive COVID-19 cases in the district’s more affluent schools. At the Dec. 17 Board of Education...

Above left, Rogers Elementary first grader Dominic Vallejo works at school wearing a mask Dec. 16, 2020, as Mehlville school signs, right, ask the community to do the same.

Mehlville asks for more masking so that district can bring students back to school

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter December 28, 2020

The Mehlville School District hopes to bring back elementary school students to five days a week in person and high school students back part-time in the second semester, but the district is appealing...

In the Rogers Elementary first-day-of-school scavenger hunt in 2019, second-grader Aleah Jacobsmeyer, right, and other students went straight to the top for help, asking Superintendent Chris Gaines if he fit any of their categories. He checked the box ‘I like vegetables.’

Mehlville looks at facilities, safety and personalization ahead of possible bond issue

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter December 10, 2020

The next five years of the Mehlville School District’s strategic plan will largely be driven by facilities, safety and personalization. The district spent the 2019-2020 school year gathering feedback...

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

Mehlville, Oakville highs switch to all-virtual

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor November 18, 2020

Mehlville and Oakville high school students were set to return to all-virtual learning Monday, Nov. 16, the Mehlville School District announced Nov. 12 in an email to parents. Superintendent Chris Gaines...

An Oakville Elementary student the first day of school in 2020.

With students in and out of school, teachers still worried despite air quality upgrades

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter November 17, 2020

The Mehlville School District is trying to make the return to schools safer for students and staff by upgrading air quality, but some teachers are still nervous about teaching in person during the COVID-19...

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