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The Town & Country Board of Aldermen unanimously approved, on Jan. 11, a new bill focused on noise regulation and control.

The Whitfield Warriors won the 50th annual Eric Lewis Invitational at MICDS but it came with a steep price. The Warriors lost sophomore J.R. Ditter for the rest of the season with a fractured elbow. He will have surgery this week on it, coach Charlie Sherertz said. Ditter wrestles at 120 pounds this year. He won state as a freshman in the 113-pound division. “We got a big blow today,” Sherertz said Monday (Jan. 25). “We learned J.R. Ditter is done for the season. He got hurt in the semifinals. It’s too bad. He had lofty goals. He wanted to ...

Come Valentine’s Day, local art lovers and history buffs will have their last chance to see the paintings of Sir Winston Churchill up close and personal.

The group of about 18 young men and women – most with a goal of military service, the remainder already serving – gathered on the swimming pool deck at the Pattonville High aquatic center and went through a series of stretching exercises.

Eighteen-year-old Drew Ellison is the snowboarding coach for the Hidden Valley Ski Team, the region’s only junior alpine racing team.

St. Louis’ Matthew Tkachuk scored two goals and helped the United States defeat Sweden 8-3 earlier this month to win bronze at the 2016 World Junior Championship in Finland.

Dozens of robotics teams from the St. Louis area came together recently to compete for a chance to not only win, but move to the next level of competition.

Rockwood School District’s new mobile innovation center has already begun visiting district elementary schools, to let third- and fifth-graders investigate a variety of STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] projects.

The Town & Country Board of Aldermen held deliberations on Jan. 11 regarding hiring consultants to aid in the process of developing the Wirth Property.

Tim Conroy, the new executive director of the Central County Emergency 911 dispatch center [CCE] in Ellisville, has no illusions about the average person’s awareness of the operation he heads and the role it plays daily in saving lives.