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The undefeated MICDS Rams are on a roll heading into Tuesday’s (Sept. 30) Class 1 District 1 tournament. The Rams are 9-0 in dual and triangular matches and 2-0 in tournament play. MICDS won the Angel Classic and is coming off winning the River to River Challenge last week. Forest Hills Country Club is the site of the district, which is being hosted by Villa Duchesne. The teams tee off at 10 a.m. Competing in the district are Barat Academy, Clayton, Herculaneum, John Burroughs, Lutheran South, MICDS, Cape Girardeau Notre Dame, St. Francis Borgia, Ste. Genevieve and Villa Duchesne. John ...

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It’s time for high school girls tennis team and invidual singles and doubles districts to begin.    Here are the seedings for Class 2 District 3 hosted by St. Joseph’s Academy: 1. St. Joseph’s Academy. 2. Visitation Academy. 3. Webster Groves. 4. Nerinx Hall. 5. Ladue. 6. Gateway. Play begins Monday (Sept. 29) when Nerinx Hall plays Ladue and Webster Groves meets Gateway. Each match begins at 3:30 p.m. The Ladue-Nerinx Hall winner plays St. Joseph’s while the Webster-Gateway winner meets Visitation. Both matches are at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. The team title match will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. Here ...

It’s time for area high school girls golf teams to start district competition. The Class 2, District 2 teams will tee it up first when the teams begin playing at 8 a.m. Monday (Sept. 29) at Fox Run Golf Club. Northwest is the host. Teams competing are Eureka, Lafayette, Marquette, Northwest, Parkway South, Parkway West, Summit, Rolla, Visitation Academy and Westmisnter Christian Academy. The other districts are set for Tuesday (Sept. 30). The Class 2 District 3 will be played at 8 a.m. Tuesday at Crystal Springs and be hosted by Pattonville. The teams competing are Francis Howell North, Fort Zumwat ...

The stage was big for Fort Zumwalt North sophomore quarterback Cade Brister but he never seemed to be rattled. With a little help from Deon Lewis and the Panthers high-powered option offense, Brister and Zumwalt North fought off a fourth quarter challenge from rival Fort Zumwalt South and rolled to a 42-21 homecoming win Saturday (Sept. 27) at Fort Zumwalt North. Zumwalt North moved to 6-0 (3-0 in Gateway Central conference play) and has now won five straight times over their archrivals. “We were playing pretty well last week, probably the best we’ve played so far this year and I ...

CBC quarterback Blake Charlton made it happen in the air. Cadets running back Caylen Taylor made it happen on the ground, and the Cadets defense was relentless on Friday night. Charlton threw for two touchdowns and Taylor ran for two scores as unbeaten CBC rolled over Metro Catholic rival De Smet Jesuit  60-0 at De Smet Jesuit. “Anytime you score on your first drive you have got to be happy with that and we were able to score a couple of touchdowns after that and that was good to see,” CBC coach Scott Pingel said. “I really love the way ...

Missouri Western scored 21 points from turnovers and parlayed that into a 26-9 victory over Lindenwood University Thursday night at Hunter Stadium in St. Charles, Mo. Lindenwood came out with a lot of energy and played well in the first half, but mistakes allowed the Griffons to lead 14-9 at halftime, Missouri Western scored on its first drive after a Lions turnover set the Griffons up at the Lindenwood 29. Six plays later, Missouri Western scored on a 15-yard pass from TJ LaFaver to Brandyyn Clark. The Lions cut the lead to 7-6 early in the second quarter. On a first down from ...

Tax rates for Lake Saint Louis residents aren’t going up this year. The city’s Board of Aldermen approved keeping the city’s property tax rate at 59.51 cents per $100 assessed valuation, which will provide funding for the city’s general fund that covers most city expenses. The city’s debt service rate will remain at 47 cents per $100 assessed valuation for this year. Those rates are the same as in 2013. The board is required to adopt tax rates by Oct. 1. Aldermen took the action at their Sept. 22 meeting after being told that – even though the city’s assessed ...

Some pundits are saying that President Obama has been floundering in his response to the ISIS crisis because public opinion polls show most Americans don’t want another war. In all my 84 years, I cannot recall a time when most Americans wanted war. That is something we should be proud of. But wars are not always optional. Even World War II — which some have called “the good war” — was not something that most Americans wanted. But the Japanese took that decision out of our hands when they bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. And Hitler removed any ...

A Lake Saint Louis alderman again plans to seek a ban on all texting while driving in the city. Alderman John Pellerito (Ward 3) said he plans to introduce the bill at the city’s Board of Aldermen meeting on Oct. 6. He filed a similar bill earlier this year, but the board voted in May to drop it from consideration. Pellerito’s bill is similar to ordinances adopted by Kirkwood, St. Charles, Manchester, Florissant and St. John and would go a step beyond current state law, which prohibits texting only for drivers age 21 and younger. His bill would ban texting ...