Marina Henke, News Section Editor
• March 23, 2015
I. Introduction
“This property here has monkey grass, which is from Japan. These are boxwoods, from Korea. That’s turf grass from England. This plant is lamb’s ear, from the Middle East.”
Susan...
For most of senior Déna Dianati’s life, she relied on Skype sessions and frequent phone calls to keep in touch with her extended family, who lives in Iran - mostly in Tehran, the nation’s capital...
“I mean, who doesn’t want to win 2,000 dollars?” freshman Jess Kagan said about the Walgreen’s Expressions Challenge.
The contest is directed towards teens who can enter their work...
By Becca Polinsky and Peter Schmidt
Although only six miles apart, Ferguson and Clayton can sometimes feel light-years away. However, in the aftermath of the Michael Brown shooting and the lack of an...
Long legs stretching across the dance floor. Perfectly pointed feet, defined muscles and a smile nobody can resist. Freshman Brooke Terry is a vision of passion when she is dancing.
On Oct. 31, Terry...
As we were driving to the Jefferson Memorial, I overheard a boy from an all-boys’ Catholic high school in Miami trying to teach the Texan student next to him some Spanish slang. The Close-Up Washington...
One time, somebody was like ‘Hey, come to the bathroom with me’ ... and she started doing cocaine,” junior Mary* said. “She had it in an old prescription drug container, and she poured it out on...
Forbes Magazine’s January’s edition features 30 under 30 business prodigies. Sam Altman, at age 29, a St. Louis native and Captain Elementary School graduate is featured at the top of the venture capitalist...
I.
Jeff Waldman knew that this would be the last play in his high school football career.
Overhead, the fluorescent lights of the Edward Jones Dome glared down on an audience packed with screaming...
When Tom Schweich was an 8-year-old in the 1960s, his father came home from work one day with a present - a 1909 penny. Little did Schweich know that this coin would start a lifetime of collecting.
“I...
"What’s the headline, Bake? What’s the headline?” Alex Berger III shouted across the bustling City Coffeehouse & Creperie. His friend Larry Baker, a former CHS history teacher, had just walked...
Carolyn Blair is the Director of Counseling at Clayton High School. She acts as the college counselor for half of the senior class.
What made you get into counseling? I’ve known since high school...
