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Keep Kids in School to Avoid Crime
Crime Causation Has Many Reasons; Keeping Students in School is the Top Priority By Rance Thomas What can be done to reduce the increasing crime rate in the United States?…
Trinity Play its 1st Game of Season
Lutheran North Football Starts Short Season 2-0; Trinity 0-1 By Jim Wieners Seven weeks of High School Football in Missouri are now over while St. Louis County just saw their…
Pickets at Sam Page’s Home and County Government Center
No new changes in County COVID rules on High School Sports By Jim Wieners COVID-19 declared a word pandemic last march by the World Health Organization, cancelled the Missouri State…
Pandemic Anxiety for Children
Dealing with Anxiety & Emotional Distress in your Child During ‘Pandemic Learning’ - Two Professionals’ Insights By Nichole Richardson The last of our area’s public schools began the 2020-2021 school…
Some Prep Sports Begin, But Not in North County
Ferguson-Florissant And Hazelwood Districts Move Fall Sports To Spring By Jim Wieners Hazelwood West Football and Girls Tennis as well as Girls Volleyball teams from Hazelwood East and STEAM Academy…
A New Kind of Supply List
“Virtual” Learning Supply List 2020-2021 By Nichole Richardson As kids and parents gear up to begin this new school year at home (at least for awhile) there are still supplies…
Should you Homeschool?
The Homeschooling Option: Lots of Things to Consider During Pandemic By Sandra Olmsted The problems of managing COVID transmission and the beginning of the new school year has driven many…
Local School District issues solidarity statement on systemic racism
The Independent News & flovalleynews.com are running the following statement from the Hazelwood School District verbatim We don’t normally run such lengthy statements from elected boards or public corporation, but…
Back-to-School Drive-thru Day Set
Hazelwood School District Back to School Drive-Thru Fairs set for August 8 (FLORISSANT, Mo) – Hazelwood School District will host Back to School Drive-Thru Fairs on Saturday, August 8…
The New Abnormal School Day
School Days, School Dazed...What’s Going On? By Tom Anselm About this time most years, the television, radio and mailboxes are flooded with ads for sales, sales and more sales. It…