New details surrounding the charges against the CEO of a child welfare agency in Webster Groves suggest a pattern of staff being instructed not to call 911 when several children suffered serious injuries.

The idea came to Dale Penrose in 2015. Penrose, a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church since moving to Webster Groves in 2001, had heard of other Episcopal churches growing gardens and sending the food to local homeless shelters.

We were in the car driving back from one of my weekly therapy sessions, and my mom started talking about Suzan, her best friend at the time. She took a deep breath and said she had to tell me something.

Almost everybody has a fun hobby or two, but Webster Groves resident Jim Tuxbury’s unique hobby of ship building provides quite an interesting story to tell. For 25 years, Tuxbury has been building realistic large-scale radio-controlled model ships out of his garage.