Colleen Schrappen
Reporter at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Gym class wrangler. Plodding runner. Reporter & erstwhile copy editor @stltoday.
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2 days 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 week 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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3 weeks ago |
stltoday.com | Colleen Schrappen
STE. GENEVIEVE COUNTY — The families at St. Joseph School were in a position familiar to many Catholics: The parish school they loved was shutting down. They found out in November through a leak on social media, weeks before it was officially announced by the Archdiocese of St. Louis. St. Joseph, about 60 miles south of St. Louis in unincorporated Zell, is the smallest school in the archdiocese. It has 27 pupils — total — in kindergarten through fifth grades. Still, the news came as a shock.
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1 month ago |
stltoday.com | Colleen Schrappen
ST. LOUIS — The wallpaper in Peggy Winckowski’s south St. Louis kitchen is covered in lemons. For the past six weeks, she’s been handing visitors a Sharpie and asking them to sign one. “When life gives you lemons, you hang lemon wallpaper,” jokes Winckowski, 68. During her low moments, the names scrawled across the fruit vines remind her of the people who, for almost three years, have lifted her out of her grief. Many are teenagers — high school seniors, like her Sam would be.
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1 month ago |
stltoday.com | Colleen Schrappen |Dan Caesar
ST. LOUIS — Brian McKenna, a broadcaster known for his no-holds-barred take on local sports and for championing philanthropic causes, died early Saturday crossing Hampton Avenue not far from his house in St. Louis Hills. He was 61. McKenna was walking west, across a bend in the four-lane roadway between Nottingham and Murdoch avenues, when a car driving south struck him, according to St. Louis police.
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