Former Francis Howell School Board president Mark Lafata wants the board to reorganize, citing a lack of leadership by current President Mike Sommer.

Last night at the regular board meeting, Lafata attempted to add the reorganization to the agenda.

“Your lack of leadership…

Longtime Francis Howell educator Tracie Lee Beckerman died on Sunday after a battle with cancer. She was 47.

Those she is survived by include her husband Steven H. Beckerman and three children, Joseph Beckerman, Justin Beckerman and Jamilee Beckerman.

Beckerman was Special…

This just came in from the health department — the first H1N1 vaccination clinic open to the general public in St. Charles County is set for Saturday.

SARA Services has 1,500 injectable doses of the H1N1 vaccine for the clinic planned…

The Francis Howell School District will host its second H1N1 vaccination clinic on Tuesday at Hollenbeck Middle School.

The district gave out 545 doses of the nasal mist at a clinic last Saturday. Francis Howell students, staff and community members will be…

Today is the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the Chas Beat blog.
During that time we’ve published 841 posts and received 3,696 comments. Chas Beat is consistently among the top news blogs at the paper and we are grateful the…

The Crime Beat blog has the report

More than 300 people crammed into New Melle’s Community Club last night to talk about ways to improve Highway DD, a road that state officials say is among the most dangerous of its kind in the state.

State Sen. Scott Rupp…

Maybe it’s the fact that it’s raining — again — or maybe it’s because the Cards, the Blues and Mizzou all lost last night, but I’m feeling a little down today.

Maybe you’re feeling the same way. I thought it might…

Two of the replica boats normally on display at St. Charles’ Lewis and Clark Boat House and Nature Center are down south for a few days.

The boat house’s keelboat was taken by trailer earlier this week to the Memphis area to…

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