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When Selvidge Middle counselor Matt Schindler’s daughter was born eight years ago, he recalls learning a lot in a little bit of time.

About 1,400 Parkway eighth-graders got an early look at possible future careers, as well as a chance to think about high school course selection during the district’s first-ever Career Conference, held Dec. 3-4 at St. Louis Community College-Meramec.

Super Bowl ads are as anticipated as the football game itself – sometimes even more so.

Cpl. Brandon Bartz of the Missouri State Park Rangers has been named 2015 Park Ranger of the Year by ServiceWear Apparel.

Preliminary budget assumptions for the 2016 fiscal year, which began July 1, 2015 and ends June 30, 2016, show revenues estimated to be at $255,184,336 and expenditures projected at $267,718,718 for the Parkway School District.

When your family is huddled close to the fire, enjoying each other’s company and the merry atmosphere of the season, many local firefighters will still be on-duty – just in case one of those cozy holiday fires gets out of hand.

Here are the local athletes who made the high school  boys soccer all-conference teams. Suburban West Conference First team G Joey Owens, sr., Eureka G Scott Caraway, jr., Lafayette F Turner Weiss, jr., Parkway South M Matt Lockwood, jr., Eureka M Ian Barger, jr., Marquette M Enrico Stazzone, Marquette M Matthew Scharf, sr., Lafayette D Drew Albert, sr., Eureka D C.J. Waldner, sr., Marquette D J.C. Lake, sr., Parkway South D David Marshall, sr., Lafayette Second team G Sam Griskauskas, jr., Marquette F Jake Naeger, sr., Eureka M Andrew Mocker, so., Eureka M Joey Ruoff, sr., Eureka M Connor Donovan, ...

Here are the local athletes who made the high school girls volleyball all-state teams as selected by the Missouri High School Volleyball Coaches Association. Class 4 First team Amanda Beaton, sr., Lafayette Gabby Blossom, so., St. Joseph’s Academy Taryn Griffey, sr., Lafayette Marisa Tomek, jr., St. Joseph’s Second team Alayna Martin, sr., Lafayette Honorable mention Jamie Poppen, so., Parkway West Here are the local athletes who made the high school girls volleyball all-conference teams: Suburban West Conference   First team  S/OPP Alayna Martin, Lafayette MB Taryn Griffey, Lafayette OH Hallie Sidney, Marquette OH Amanda Beaton, Lafayette MB Sydney Holt, Eureka ...

Here are the local athletes who made the high school girls golf all-conference teams: Suburban West Conference   Coach of the year: Eric Schweain, Marquette First team Sarah Lewis, Marquette Mindy Hennrich, Lafayette Allie Dannegger, Parkway South Allison Rieske, Eureka Paige Sanfelippo, Lafayette Allison Tichenor, Marquette Second team McKenzie Miller, Eureka Kelly Jackson, Eureka Kristin Jackson, Eureka Anika Pulumati, Lafayette Lucy Youngblood, Marquette  Sububran XII Conference Player of the year: Rebecca Su, sr., Parkway West First team| Melanie Wilmert, jr., Parkway Central Morgan Brody, jr., Parkway Central Erin Armstrong, sr., Parkway North Second team Lily McMorrow, sr., Parkway West Courtney ...

Westminster Christian Academy’s Zach Hughes will have to be springing for Frosty’s for all of his friends now. The Westminster senior along with Taylor Campos of Lemont, Ill., were named as the 2015 Wendy’s High School Heisman winners in a ceremony Friday night in New York. A male winner and female winner were chosen from among 10 finalists. The ceremony broadcast of the Wendy’s High School Heisman Award Ceremony will air at 4 p.m. Sunday (Dec. 13) on ESPN2. The finalists were culled from thousands of school winners, then 984 state finalists and finally 102 state winners from all 50 ...