Ashlynn Perez

1 week ago | callnewspapers.com | Ashlynn Perez

Sunset Hills residents will see a QuikTrip in their neighborhood in the coming days, following the unanimous approval of the convenience store by the Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen on May 13. The 16-pump gas station will be located at 10200 Rahning Road along Highway 30, joining 138 QT locations in Missouri. The tract of land is a mostly forested area, directly west and downhill of the Sunset Pointe subdivision.

1 week ago | callnewspapers.com | Ashlynn Perez

‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ has seven Tony nominationsMay 29, 2025 Eleven years ago, Maggie Kuntz stepped into Cor Jesu Academy. She was a freshman with a handful of voice and dance lessons under her belt, but she had yet to dazzle the fine arts department at her new high school. But she did so, and she did it quickly. “I remember watching her dance audition and thinking, ‘Holy cow,’” Kathleen Pottinger, dean of student life at Cor Jesu Academy, said.

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On May 30, the sun will set over Forest Park, and a new world—that of Hamlet, reimagined—will take over Shakespeare Glen. “People are filing in. They’re eating, drinking, talking,” Tom Ridgely, the producing artistic director at St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, says. There’s a note of awe in his voice, even after seven years of producing Shakespeare in the Park. “Then the play begins, and the sun finally sets. It gets darker and cooler. People put on their sweaters and snuggle up under their blankets.

2 weeks ago | callnewspapers.com | Ashlynn Perez

May 21, 2025 Raeshaun Johnson, 22, of McCasland Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois, has been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action. The charges are merely accusations. Johnson is presumed innocent until proven guilty in court. St. Louis County police say the defendant, Johnson, was waiting for his girlfriend to give plasma at Concord Plaza in Sappington when a man approached him and took his girlfriend’s phone from his lap.

1 month ago | callnewspapers.com | Ashlynn Perez

Friendship Village Senior Living proposed a 28-bed expansion to its memory care unit during the Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen meeting on April 22. This two-story addition to the current facilities — located at 12563 Village Circle Drive near the intersection of Kennerly and Weber Hill roads — would be constructed on top of what is currently a parking lot. New parking would be added on the western side of the Friendship Village property.