A pandemic and an announcement by Gov. Mike Parson has thrown back city elections from April 7 to June 2. The political show must go on — and that means more time to campaign for incumbent Mayor Patricia Fribis and challenger John Stephens for the top spot in Sunset Hills.
Like other South County parents, Franco Gassiraro is determined not to let the worst American disease pandemic in more than a century get the best of his family.
As people practice social distancing and self-isolation, home safety has become even more important.
St. Louis doctors confronting the coronavirus crisis have a singular focus on the pandemic. But Randy Jotte, M.D., of Webster Groves, also is keeping one eye of his tired peepers on the situation for the homeless.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, have recommended gatherings of no more than 50 individuals in response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
Missouri’s official musical instrument is the fiddle. The Celtic Harp is Ireland’s official symbol. Both magical music makers came together at the fifth annual Irish Salon in Webster Groves to kick off the St. Louis Irish parade season.
Elsa Lemp Wright, of the famously “haunted” St. Louis family, was discovered dead in her bed on March 20, 1920, with a bullet clean through her chest. Her death, like many others in her family, was ruled a suicide.
A teacher who loved her students and wanted to help them understand what was happening during her cancer treatment has left one last “lesson plan” for children.
A generation of marketers may have misappropriated the term “battle of the bulge” to spice up their campaigns to sell diet regimens to the body-conscious public, but historians refer to it in capital letters to memorialize one of the most significant, grueling battles of World War II.
With wildfires raging globally and 2019 being the second hottest year on record, even climate change skeptics are starting to look for answers. Could planting a trillion trees reduce carbon pollution and spur a needed cool down?
Spearheaded by founder of Alpha Entertainment Vince McMahon, the original XFL was a professional American football league which ran for a single season in 2001. Airing in late winter and early spring, it sought to take advantage of sports fans’ lingering desire for football after the NFL sea…
A St. Louis Archdiocese plan for the combining of St. Elizabeth of Hungary in Crestwood and St. Raymond Maronite Cathedral, located on the near south side of the city, has raised a bit of anxiety and a lot of questions for members of both parishes.
Whiskers and wags in addition to traditional V-Day kisses sounds splendid to local animal lovers.
Steve Keithline, who stays at the Biddle House in downtown St. Louis, takes the bus twice a week to panhandle at the intersection of Interstate 44 and Lindbergh Road. The area is on the border of Sunset Hills and Kirkwood, and police from both cities have been called out to address the panha…
One week after the World Health Organization declared a “global health emergency,” health professionals in the local area are monitoring the situation closely to prevent an outbreak of the dangerous coronavirus here.
About 100 residents attended a presentation of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Lower Meramec Multi-Jurisdictional Floodplain Management Plan at the Sunset Hills Recreation Center on Jan. 29. Local elected officials said they may be crafting new legislation in line with the plan’s numerous …
At least 100 people braved snow and cold last Thursday to attend a presentation at Affton High School, where McKelvey Homes discussed building plans for the southernmost section of Resurrection Cemetery in Affton.
Jennifer Abercrombie, a tireless Lindbergh Schools volunteer, has been named “Citizen of the Year” by the Crestwood-Sunset Hills Chamber of Commerce.
The Affton Chamber of Commerce will hold a “Masquerade Gala,” its annual awards and dinner auction, on Saturday, Feb. 1, at Andre’s South Banquet Center, 4254 Telegraph Road.
At nearly 2,500 miles long, the Mississippi River is the second-longest river in North America. Known affectionately as “Old Man River” and “Father of Waters,” it touches many major U.S. cities including New Orleans, Memphis, Minneapolis and, of course, St. Louis.
It’s not exactly a dog-eat-dog world out there, but it certainly is competitive. Plants compete for sunlight. Songbirds compete for nesting sites. Predators compete for prey. And teachers compete to be the best educators they can be.
On a recent cold morning Mike Shamia stood atop an elevated strip of land and looked out over 27 barren acres of the former Tower Tee.
On wintry days with cold rain, ice and snow, most people of sound mind and body are warming by the gas fire and flat screen or doing yoga at the rec center. They are not thinking about their Meramec River heritage.
As more local seniors cha-cha into old age, some leverage the perceived benefits of ballroom dancing to help prevent dementia and memory loss.
