Oakville News

Chris Leon, former student of University of Missouri-St. Louis and native of Oakville, Missouri, was awarded the Elijah Watt Sells Award.

Gary Caldwell and his wife, Janet, have listed for sale their three-bedroom, 3.5-bath home at 5411 Milburn Road in Oakville for $585,000. The Caldwells paid $108,000 for the property in Aug.

The public has spoken, and it's apparently not yet satisfied with the Metro transit agency's efforts to restore some of the service it discontinued earlier this year.

Mehlville School District middle-school and elementary principals and assistant principals will receive salary increases ranging from 1.1 percent to more than 8.5 percent for the coming school year.

A funding scenario to finance a four-phase plan to make the Mehlville School District a high-performing district no longer will work, Superintendent Terry Noble recently told members of a district committee.

Mehlville Board of Education members voted in closed session last week to approve the salary increases for district administrators, who did not receive increases for the 2008-2009 school year be-cause of a salary freeze.

A St. Louis County man has been charged in the abuse death of his toddler daughter.

Thousands of Lindbergh School District residents rode the 'Spirit Bus' Saturday during the 18th annual Spirit Festival on the Lindbergh High School campus.

The green spaces throughout the city and county are lush, welcome oases from unforgiving concrete.

Where is this tattoo / piercing? my ear... How long have you had it? 1 yr. How many tats do you have? 2 How many piercings do you have? 3 What's the story behind this tattoo / piercing? nothing too interesting.

Bill Milligan photo Oakville Senior High School outfielder Drew Levi pulls the ball down the first base line for a double in the early going Saturday.

An Oakville man who ran unsuccessfully for the Mehlville Fire Protection District Board of Directors in 2005 has been indicted by a federal grand jury in a murder-for-hire case involving a district firefighter.

Construction of the Mehlville Fire Pro-tection Districts' new No. 2 firehouse in Oakville essentially is done and district of-ficials now are focusing on selling the old fire station and land, according to board Chairman Aaron Hilmer.

Participating Baskin-Robbins stores will reduce prices of small ice cream scoops to 31 cents from 5 to 10 p.m. Wednesday nationwide, including locations at 820 North Highway 67 in Florissant, 9842 Clayton Road in Ladue, 5531 Oakville Shopping Center in Oakville and 11730 Baptist Church Road in south St.

The Mehlville Fire Protection District Board of Directors last week selected Capt.

Although Gov. Jay Nixon's bidding process for revenue offices is in full swing, affecting offices as close as Dexter, Mo., it has yet to involve the offices at Kennett and Malden, Mo.

The Dexter motor vehicle/license office is one of six of the latest revenue offices to be put up for bid as part of Governor Jay Nixon's plan to increase the efficiency and accountability of revenue offices across the state.

Marvin Skaggs, the president of Semco Plastics Co. in south St. Louis County, died of a heart attack Wednesday at his home in Oakville.

The controversy surrounding the County's trash distracting program is far from over.

Of $35,410 collected by Citizens for a Safer South County to support Peter "P.J." Polizzi's candidacy for a seat on the Mehlville Fire Protection Board of Directors, $32,800 has come from Mehlville firefighters and their political-action committee.