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March 9, 2024
The fast-spreading blaze on March 9, 1914, killed 30 men and destroyed the seven-story building at Washington Avenue and Fourth Street.
November 13, 2023
Former principal Ted Juneau said that he can “feel the voices” of former students who passed through what is now Liberty Memorial Central Middle School duri
December 16, 2020
Once community anchors, schoolhouses across the city have been closed and sold off to developers. It is October 2019, and the old Lyon School is dark. It sits on the end of a quiet street in south St. Louis, fenced and forgotten, a three-story brick castle with boarded front doors and a checkerboard of plywood patches over missing windows. During the day, a few neighborhood kids slide through a gap in the fence to play basketball on a beat-up hoop with no net. They run and dribble on weed-crack...
December 15, 2020
Arts and culture leaders pen letter in support of sparing Sumner High School from closure The St. Louis board of education will vote Tuesday on a proposal to close 10 schools, including Sumner, the first African-American high school west of the Mississippi. Sumner High School, ca. 1908 On Tuesday, members of the St. Louis board of education will vote on a proposal to close 10 schools within the school district. On December 1, St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent Kelvin Adams recomme...