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Vashon’s Tyreil Robinson (51) tries to step between Keshawn Hart (15) and Sumner’s Promise Copper (54) to make a block during Saturday’s homecoming game at Sumner. The Wolverines of Vashon went on to defeat the Bulldogs 24-20.
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Marisa Warren, 17, a senior at Incarnate Word, in the cockpit of a Cirrus SR 20 at the inaugural Girls in Aviation Day held last Friday (Oct. 12) at Saint Louis University’s Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology.
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A group of 7th graders toured Community Action Agency of St. Louis County ‘s Seeds of Hope Farm on a BJC HealthCare-sponsored service trip on Friday, October 15.
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The Community Action Agency of St. Louis County (CAASTLC) recognized Jennings School District Superintendent Art McCoy at its 50th Anniversary Celebration “Doors of Opportunity” on Thursday, October 11. Left to right: Cenia D. Bosman, CAASTLC president and CEO; Georgie Donahue, CAASTLC director of Administrative Services; and Gwen Diggs and Venice Hicks-Prophet of Jennings School District, accepting a CAASTLC Journey Award on behalf of McCoy.
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Ferguson-Florissant Board of Education President Courtney Graves wiped tears on October 10 while discussing options for closing schools in the district.
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Tom Chulick and Larry Brown -
The 1978 Soldan Tigers football team was honored at halftime of last Saturday’s Soldan-Lift for Life game. It was the 40th anniversary of the Tigers Public High League championship season.
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Jim Kavanaugh, co-founder and CEO of World Wide Technology, and members of the Taylor family from Enterprise Rent-A-Car, announced a new proposal to bring the MLS to St. Louis. A new St. Louis MLS team would be the first majority female-owned club in league history.
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A ceremony to honor attorney Homer G. Phillips was held Saturday, October 13 at the Homer G. Phillips Senior Living Community, 2601 Whittier St., on the site of the former historic black hospital of the same name. At the event, artist George DeMeyers II unveiled a portrait of the famed attorney and namesake of the hospital. No portrait of Phillips had ever hung at his namesake hospital or senior center. At right are Dr. Navinkar Amin and Dr. Nathaniel Murdock.
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Elijah Thompson, a student at Griffith Elementary School in the Ferguson Florissant School Dist with his mom LaToya Thompson at Saturday’s Community Fair at the Ferguson community Center Sat. Oct. 13, 2018.
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Jeanetta Hawkins has decorated nearly 4,000 events in her 30 years of running Personal Touches by Jeanetta, Inc., an event decorating and planning business.
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Jeanetta Hawkins has decorated nearly 4,000 events in her 30 years of running Personal Touches by Jeanetta, Inc., an event decorating and planning business.
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O’Fallon Illinois High School senior Arron Whitt Jr. is back on the football field a year after suffering a stroke. A surgical team at St. Louis Children’s Hospital performed an emergency thrombectomy and rehabilitation got him cleared to play this year.
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O’Fallon Illinois High School senior Arron Whitt Jr. is back on the football field a year after suffering a stroke. A surgical team at St. Louis Children’s Hospital performed an emergency thrombectomy and rehabilitation got him cleared to play this year.
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Johns Hopkins University Leaders -
Students at Lucas Crossing Elementary Complex recently participated in activities to celebrate meeting literacy milestones. Lucas Crossing was one of four schools in Normandy named to the 2018 list of America’s Healthiest Schools by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
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The Hazelwood School District (HSD) Board of Education held its first Community Forum of the 2018-2019 school year October 4 at Hazelwood East High School. Dozens of parents, community members, and district staff were in attendance and submitted questions which were answered by a panel consisting of three board members and Superintendent Nettie Collins-Hart. Two main topics of discussion included the district’s plans to open a thematic school geared toward talented and gifted students in 2019 and updates on redistricting presented at the district’s most recent Board of Education meeting. The next Community Forum will take place February 21, 2019 at Hazelwood West High School.
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Earl Austin Jr. with St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame President Greg Marececk following his enshrinement at the 10th Annual St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on September 26 at the Hilton St. Louis Frontenac Hotel.
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Congressman John Lewis travels to metro-east, part of Democrats’ plan to retake House -
Attendees at last year’s National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality gather around a symbolic coffin, burying rejected aspects of obsolete and repressive policing. Photo courtesy of CAPCR.
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Jeanetta Hawkins has decorated nearly 4,000 events in her 30 years of running Personal Touches by Jeanetta, Inc., an event decorating and planning business.
Photo by Rebecca Rivas
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O’Fallon Illinois High School senior Arron Whitt Jr. is back on the football field a year after suffering a stroke. A surgical team at St. Louis Children’s Hospital performed an emergency thrombectomy and rehabilitation got him cleared to play this year.
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St. Louis residents gather at a Neighborhoods United for Change event. The SLACO Sisterhoods Initiative is an extension of this program.