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South St. Louis County News

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The St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force presented this slide Sept. 9, 2020, showing Oakville with the most cases of any other ZIP code in the 15-county region.

Oakville still adds more COVID-19 cases than any other ZIP code, but cases trending down from August highs

September 11, 2020

Oakville is again the ZIP code seeing the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the entire St. Louis metropolitan region, but the number of cases is down from the highs of a month ago. The St. Louis...

An Oakville Elementary student the first day of school.

Mehlville K-2 students will move from all-virtual to in-person school

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter September 10, 2020

The Mehlville School District is bringing back preschool and kindergarten through second-grade students for in-person learning in classrooms beginning Tuesday, Sept. 22, the district announced Thursday....

Mehlville Superintendent Gaines: Getting back in school depends on you

Mehlville Superintendent Gaines: Getting back in school depends on you

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor August 25, 2020

The Mehlville School District will be kicking off school this week with an all-virtual start due to rising COVID-19 cases in South County, and Superintendent Chris Gaines was straightforward about how...

Workers make repairs and repaint the Mehlville School District pool. Photo courtesy of the Mehlville School District.

No bond issue in November: Mehlville measure is on hold

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter August 24, 2020

The Mehlville Board of Education declined last week to place a no-tax-rate-increase bond issue on the Nov. 3 ballot. The board cited concerns that the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic as well...

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.

Mehlville school board decides not to place bond issue for facilities on November ballot

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter August 20, 2020

The Mehlville Board of Education declined Thursday night to place a no-tax-rate-increase bond issue on the Nov. 3 ballot, citing concerns that the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic as well the...

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.

Mehlville Board of Education votes on possible bond issue tonight

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter August 20, 2020

The Mehlville Board of Education will vote tonight — Thursday, Aug. 20 — whether to place a 12-cent no-tax-rate-increase bond issue on the ballot for the Nov. 3 election. The Board of Education will...

The slide shown by the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force last week that singled out South County as a coronavirus hotspot.

COVID-19 cases continue to rise in every South County ZIP code; task force singles it out as pandemic hotspot

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor August 17, 2020

Coronavirus cases have continued to rise in South County in the week since it was singled out as a virus hotspot in the St. Louis metropolitan region, even as cases began to decline in other areas. Reporting...

The Point Eagle mascot passes out Chromebooks at a drive-thru event in March 2020.

Despite widespread interest, only one parent speaks on holding Mehlville classes in person

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter August 17, 2020

With all the discussion going on about whether schools should start in person or virtually this fall, only one parent came to the Mehlville Board of Education’s Aug. 5 meeting where the board decided...

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

All South County school districts go virtual, with Lindbergh keeping K-3 in classroom

By Gloria Lloyd and Erin Achenbach August 12, 2020

All five South County school districts are mostly going virtual to start the school year due to rising cases of the coronavirus in St. Louis County. Four of the five districts —  Mehlville, Affton,...

A Mehlville School District employee hands out emergency food boxes from Operation Food Search to students receiving grab-and-go meals while students are out of school during the pandemic.

Mehlville Board of Education votes to start school year virtually

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter August 5, 2020

The Mehlville Board of Education voted unanimously in an in-person meeting Wednesday night to start the 2020-2021 school year entirely virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic and rising cases in the St. Louis...

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