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The city of Sunset Hills campus: Sunset Hills Police Department

New Sunset Hills city administrator is Wentzville Alderman Brittany Gillett

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter September 1, 2020

Sunset Hills has hired its second-ever city administrator, who is set to begin at the end of September.  Mayor Pat Fribis told The Call that she offered the position of city administrator Saturday...

Former Sunset Hills City Administrator Eric Sterman, left, and City Attorney Robert E. Jones during a meeting of the Board of Aldermen in 2017.

Sunset Hills’ first-ever city administrator, Eric Sterman, leaves for same job in Ballwin

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor August 25, 2020

Four years after making history as the first city administrator in Sunset Hills, City Administrator Eric Sterman has been hired for the same position in Ballwin. The Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen was...

The new Comfort Suites development next to Helen Fitzgerald’s under construction, as seen July 17, 2020.

Tax abatement for Helen’s and hotel is dropped; city doesn’t want to affect Lindbergh Schools

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter August 24, 2020

Petitions for both a parking garage and tax abatement for Helen’s Fitzgerald’s and a new hotel on Lindbergh Boulevard have been scrapped after a Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen meeting Aug. 11. At...

Curbside pickup was open at Helen Fitzgeralds in Sunset Hills March 18.

Sunset Hills eases sign restrictions during pandemic

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Repoter July 31, 2020

The City of Sunset Hills has temporarily stopped enforcing ordinances regarding temporary banners and signs in front of businesses to allow businesses to continue to advertise carryout, curbside and pick-up...

Then-Ward 4 Alderman Donna Ernst, left, applauds for her successor, Ward 4 Alderman Thompson Price, at the victory party on his first election night in April 2016.

Price voted board president over Baebler

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter July 29, 2020

Newly re-elected Ward 4 Alderman Thompson Price was named president of the Sunset HIlls Board of Aldermen June 23, defeating Ward 1 Alderman Dee Baebler in a 5-3 videoconferenced vote that was split along...

The new Comfort Suites development next to Helen Fitzgerald’s under construction, as seen July 17, 2020.

Helen’s and hotel want tax incentives vote

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter July 22, 2020

A final vote on a Sunset Hills bill that would grant tax incentives to Helen Fitzgerald’s and a new hotel on Lindbergh Boulevard in Sunset Hills was postponed to August at the developer’s request. The...

John Stephens, left, and Pat Fribis, right.

Fribis wins re-election over Stephens, but says she’s glad a long, ‘vicious’ race is over

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter June 8, 2020

Sunset Hills will remain under the guidance of Mayor Pat Fribis after the two-term incumbent won her re-election bid against political newcomer John Stephens last week, following a long-drawn-out race...

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...

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...

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...

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