Friday, May 18, 2012
The students were honored by the Do the Right Thing Program on Wednesday.
Two Oakville fifth-graders were honored Wednesday for helping a fellow student in gym class. Grace Fedorchak and Rachel Pleimann of Blades Elementary School took time to help a kindergartener in their character education group that was struggling to pay attention. Blades physical education teacher Kevin Green said the two initiated kindness and helped the student become less disruptive in class. For their actions, Green nominated them for the Do the Right Thing Program, a nonprofit organization that recognizes positive social behaviors in students around St. Louis. Rachel and Grace attended a ceremony Wednesday at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville, Ill, and were recognized by KMOV news anchor Robin Smith and …
Superintendent Eric Knost presented a preliminary budget at Thursday's board meeting. Also, the board passed a solar project for five district schools.
The preliminary budget for the district’s first auditorium is under budget by less than $2,000. The auditorium is estimated at $5,998,005—$1,995 short of the $6 million cap the board placed on the project. Superintendent Eric Knost presented an overview of the budget at the Mehlville school board meeting Thursday. “I’m very excited, I think we’re that much closer, I think that this is just further proving we can accomplish this, we can stay within that $6 million that I’m adamant about,” Knost said. The budget projections are for the new location of the auditorium on the south side of the Mehlville High School campus. Knost previously proposed an auditorium attached to the Witzel Learning Center, and then planned for a location on the …
An audit of the department also revealed it spent $500,000 on vehicles.
Less than three months after 20 St. Louis County Parks employees received lay-off notices, an audit of the parks department spent hundreds of thousands on new vehicles. The St. Louis County Council ordered the audit in January and also located an extra $129,000 in bank accounts, Paul Hampel with the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported. The audit, released on Tuesday, said the department spent $500,000 on new vehicles such as pick-up trucks and sedans. More than half of that was spent after Dooley said the county was in a financial crisis last summer, Hampel reports. Two accounts, containing $129,000, were also found untouched from bonds sold in the 1970s and 1980s. In his preliminary 2012 budget, County Executive Charlie Dooley proposed …
Country music and laryngitis are two of the methods employed this week.
The last few iterations of this column have noted how several candidates for the U.S. Senate utilized creative means to entice fundraising efforts. For instance, Rep. Todd Akin (R-Wildwood) used his rhetorical scuffle with President Barack Obama over student loans in a fundraising pitch. And Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has directly attacked third-party organizations that are pre-emptively attacking the incumbent lawmaker as she makes a difficult bid for re-election. McCaskill’s campaign staff continued on a creative path in an email that was sent to supporters earlier this week. They played on the fact that McCaskill had lost her voice right before she was supposed to make a speech at a Democratic gathering in Kansas City. “Between …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Chargers won 1-0 in overtime.
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Band and choir students scored high at the Missouri State Solo and Ensemble Music Festival.
District musicians went up against the best in the state and made a loud impression, scoring high and earning praises from judges. Band and choir students from Mehlville and Oakville high schools traveled to the Missouri State Solo and Ensemble Music Festival held at the University of Missouri-Columbia April 26-28. The festival, sponsored by the Missouri State High School Activities Association, rated students 1 through 5, with 1-Superior as the top score. Congratulations to the following district musicians: 1-Superior Ratings Choir MHS Girls Double Quartet: Arianna Balque, Haley Cook, Kayli Falkler, Miranda Hall, Karyle Jones, Nikki Kamp, Samantha Schnell and Abby Wicks OHS Girls Ensemble: Mikayla Brady, Megan Dillow, Ashley Kluge, …
See how your favorite restaurants rank on St. Louis County health inspections.
Patch examined inspection reports in Affton, Mehlville and Oakville from May 2 until May 8. Information has been compiled using publicly available data published to the website of the St. Louis County Health Department. Restaurants are rated on a scale of A to C, with A being the best. Inspectors also give a score indicating the percentage of compliance with inspection standards. Unless otherwise noted, all inspections were conducted on a routine basis. Crossroads Bar, 11440 Concord Village Avenue Inspection date: May 2 Grade: A (100) No comments Rate this place in our directory Lion’s Choice, 6030 S. Lindbergh Boulevard Inspection date: May 2 Grade: A (100) No comments Queen of All Saints Church, 6611 Christopher Drive Inspection date: …
The St. Louis Rams have outlined a renovation plan for the Edward Jones Dome that is estimated to cost $700 million.
The Rams want us to buy them a new house. Just fixing up its current home—the Edward Jones Dome—won't do. Instead, the St. Louis football franchise expects an extreme makeover, to the tune of $700 million, as it is estimated by a company hired by the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission (CVC) to analyze the team's counter proposal to a the CVC's own plan to upgrade the Edward Jones Dome with a $124 million facelift. If someone doesn't cough up the $700 mil to redo the Dome, it is feared the team will take its football and go home to Los Angeles, where it came from before it was the St. Louis franchise. All of this wrangling was set in motion in 1995 when the team negotiated a 30-year lease with the CVC. It was stipulated that the …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The victim was robbed at gunpoint on Friday.
St. Louis County Police released photos of four individuals they suspect of robbing a victim at gunpoint on Friday morning at the Kmart on Lemay Ferry Road. One suspect is described as a black male in his 20s, approximately 5 feet, 9 inches tall with short hair and eyeglasses. The other three are described as black males in their late teens or early 20s. Police said the 37-year-old woman was retrieving something from the backseat of her car when the suspects stole her purse and displayed a semi-automatic handgun. The suspects were last seen traveling south on Lemay Ferry Road in a green, early 2000s Chevrolet Impala with a sunroof and spoiler. The men also are suspected in connection with robberies in North County, Crestwood and …
Phil Gonzalez
11:36 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
THE HANNCOCK AMENDMENT to the Missouri Constitution ( a bad constitution, by the way) PROHIBITS TAX INCREASES OR FEES for anything WITHOUT A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE. Do you people know this bit of information? more ›