Colleen Schrappen
Reporter at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Gym class wrangler. Plodding runner. Reporter & erstwhile copy editor @stltoday.
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1 week ago |
buffalonews.com | Colleen Schrappen
ST. LOUIS COUNTY — Christina Faria is a nervous traveler. She loves being on vacation: taking in the scenery, meeting new people, shopping for souvenirs. But it’s the uncertainty beforehand, sometimes months prior to her departure date, that weighs her down. Faria, 43, has cerebral palsy, a neurologic disorder that impedes her movement.
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2 weeks ago |
stltoday.com | Colleen Schrappen
ST. LOUIS COUNTY — Christina Faria is a nervous traveler. She loves being on vacation: taking in the scenery, meeting new people, shopping for souvenirs. But it’s the uncertainty beforehand, sometimes months prior to her departure date, that weighs her down. Faria, 43, has cerebral palsy, a neurologic disorder that impedes her movement.
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2 weeks ago |
stltoday.com | Colleen Schrappen
ST. LOUIS — Three weeks ago, Tommie Kates and his girlfriend moved into a brick box of a house with their pit bull, Remy. On Sunday, their yard was littered with wood planks, chunks of concrete and fragments of wrought iron fencing. The front eaves had been bitten off and the windows shattered. Sunlight streamed into the living room from a gap where two walls used to touch, and in the back room from a hole in the roof. But Kates is still living there. He has nowhere else to go.
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3 weeks ago |
stltoday.com | Colleen Schrappen
BEL-NOR — Incarnate Word Academy, the only remaining Catholic high school in north St. Louis County, is considering a move to St. Charles County.
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1 month ago |
stltoday.com | Colleen Schrappen
EDWARDSVILLE — Stephen Marlette was a classroom aide, sitting tentatively among school administrators and curriculum directors. “I don’t think my opinion matters,” Marlette told the others on a recent Friday afternoon at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. But he was wrong. Marlette, who is not actually a classroom aide, edged past his competitors — in real life, his colleagues in SIUE’s Department of Teaching and Learning — to strategize his way to victory in the Game of Education.
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Over bacon and eggs, St. Louis grandma helped teens grieve. They’re ready to graduate now. Lovely story by @cschrappen and Allie Schallert https://t.co/2Q1WraJ711