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Gabriela Vieira, a junior at Parkway West, has won the women’s 100-yard butterfly title in the Speedo Central Sectional Region VIII Championships.

Nine students from Eureka High, including freshmen Devin Gordon and Caroline Goldsby, during the public comment portion of the Rockwood Board of Education meeting have proposed a revision of the staff anti-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation.

While shopping for prom dresses at the mall, four dancers screamed and shouted over the good news they had just received: They had made it to the final round of the fifth annual St. Louis Teen Talent Competition.

Fifth-grader Lochlan Stewart won First Place in the Junior Division of the Creating Original Music Project at the University of Missouri. In recognition of his fine musical achievement, he will be awarded $400. His home school, Ellisville Elementary, also will receive $1,000.

The red brick Missouri Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6274 that sits on a side street just north of a busy Manchester Road in Ballwin isn’t palatial, but it’s what is inside that counts.

Sumita Samkpal had never been fishing with her son, Aday. But there she was on a rainy Saturday morning eagerly watching to see if her cork was pulled under the water during Chesterfield’s first youth fishing derby at Central Park Lake.

Wildwood’s City Council is set to vote Tuesday, May 26 on a resolution that would allow installation of rooftop solar panels at the front of a home in Evergreen subdivision.

The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is holding public meetings to talk about money needed to pay for wastewater and stormwater operations and improvements in the years ahead.

About 30 people provided ideas during Town & Country’s Town Square Task Force public input forum on Saturday, May 2 at Longview Farm House.

The public is invited to a ceremony on Saturday, May 23 at 1 p.m. to honor the memory of Specialist Matthew Walker, U.S. Army, 101st Airborne Division, and to rename John Morgan Avenue in Manchester Matthew Walker Way.