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In November, Holt High senior Noah Scheuermann took home the Missouri Class 2 state swimming championship title in the 200 freestyle event with a time of 1:39.29 at the St. Peters Rec-Plex.

The journalism students at Francis Howell North High recently received several awards and recognitions, including the George H. Gallup Award from Quill and Scroll – the International Honor Society for High School Journalists.

The Francis Howell School District’s boundaries will look a bit different when the 2019-2020 school year rolls around. The district has announced it plans to implement “soft boundary” changes to ease the burden on some of its more heavily populated schools. 

The city of O’Fallon is continuing to grow up despite limited retail, office and industrial space. Currently, of the city's approximately 4.7 million square feet of retail space – spread across 318 buildings – only 4.3 percent, about 200,000 square feet, is vacant.

Work continues along Jungermann Road in St. Peters to replace two deficient culverts between Country Creek Drive and Margaret Brown Court – and it’s expected to be ongoing until last summer 2019.

The St. Charles County’s Pet Adoption Center, 4850 Mid Rivers Mall Drive, hosts a Deck the Paws adoption event from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 15.

The Francis Howell School District Board of Education has decided to self-operate student transportation services, beginning with the 2019-20 school year.

St. Charles County has launched the SCCMO AlertMe, a mass notification system that delivers alerts by text, email or phone call.

The St. Charles County Highway Department will hold an informational open house from 4-6 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 11, regarding improvements planned for David Hoekel Parkway #1B/South Point Prairie Road.

Two open house meetings to explain improvements planned for Bramblett Road in O’Fallon are coming up in December.