Forget online bullying: anonymous online compliments are all the rage at Clayton High School. On April 2, 2013, a Facebook profile picture depicting a rose in full bloom popped onto the screens...

Senior Abby Rivard has experienced many concussions as a result of playing sports.  These concussions have caused her to miss school, miss practices, and have made her at risk for future concussions....

Dibs is one of the favorite teachers at Carman Trails Elementary.  He goes to work every day to be of assistance to the counselor at Carman Trails, Shannon Hoelscher. “She uses him in a variety...

A tiger watches the setting sun as winter sets in.     

Gerard Craft emerged into the Clayton restaurant world when he moved his premier restaurant, Niche, to Clayton in November 2012.  Since then, his vision has expanded into four restaurants.  Two...

by Grace Harrison and Alex Bernard Lily Ibur’s mom, Anne, regularly corresponds with Principal Dr. Dan Gutchewsky regarding the classes her daughter misses.  But Lily still has to meet the...

I. "One day [at Clayton] I was walking down the hall and someone was like, Oh, look at that, that's that whore in the picture." This is just one facet of the tirade of responses that assaulted Rachel*,...

The Style House sits on the intersection of Cherokee Street and Compton Ave. Phrases like “Meet Me in Saint Louis” and “Get Your Thrills in Saint Louis Hills” plaster the walls,...

St. Louis is a city divided.  Rated the 6th most segregated city in America by a Business Insider examination, St. Louis is dramatically divided into areas of wealth and poverty and racial separation. Despite...

The fourth grade “Popularity Contest” finalist of Meramec Elementary School glanced into the cheering crowd with a smile. As he accepted his award, from the corner of his eye, he could...

An indoor bee structure hangs off the wall of a busy hallway. Just a few floors below bluegill fish swim in a deep indigo tank, surrounded by a gravel bedded garden complete with budding pineapple. This...

Despite the searing heat of that July day, Soldier Field was crammed to capacity.  An anxious crowd restlessly awaited the moment at which Martin Luther King, Jr. was to emerge on the field below to...