Nick Otten, CHS Associate Director of the Drama Department and former Honors American Literature teacher, shares his insights.
Q: How did you come to St. Louis?
A: My dad was a soldier in World War II....
Five and a half miles away from Clayton, a fluorescent sign hangs above Manchester Avenue, marking the entrance to a strip of restaurants, coffee shops, bars and street art known as The Grove. On a Saturday...
Grace Harrison, Senior Managing Editor
• January 6, 2016
Walking into the CHS library, a finely crafted construction site, entirely made of cardboard, towers above the shelves of books. A floor below in the corner of the art studio sits the creator: quiet and...
Until five months ago, Dr. Kayra Merrills, the new Spanish teacher at CHS, had her life planned out. After working for five years on her PhD and finally finishing her dissertation, she was looking for...
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...
Jane Smith* is an all around awesome person!
As crazy as it may seem, all it took was this anonymous compliment from behind the screen of her computer to put a smile on CHS sophomore Jane Smith’s...
By Alex Bernard and Grace Harrison
Four hours a night, five nights a week for nearly three months is what it takes to put on a show of Clayton High School’s caliber. Although the musical opened...
Wydown Seventh grader Evan Robinson sat nervously at the bench of his baby grand piano in his downtown Saint Louis home. "Do I have to play?" he asked.
It is hard to believe that Robinson would...
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*,...
This weekend on October 5th and October 6th, bikers from all around St. Louis came together to support Pedal the Cause, an organization benefitting The Siteman Cancer Center and the St. Louis Children's...
Boys’ Cross Country
2012 Record: Three first place finishes, fifth at state
Players to watch: Andy Hodapp, Parker Schultz, Ben Tamsky
Goals: To see the young core of runners improve and to...
