I was sitting in the waiting room before a doctor’s appointment a few weeks ago, and two middle-aged women were sitting a few seats away from me, loudly chatting. I sat quietly, minding my own business...

Shades of Yale Becca Polinsky             On January 11, an extremely talented group of students including a familiar face from Yale graced the Clayton community with...

To explicate: to make clear or interpret. Each day, Mr. Hayward’s third hour Honors American Lit class is started with a quote on the board. As a class, we discuss its sentence function, sentence...

The fourth grade “Popularity Contest” finalist of Meramec Elementary School glanced into the cheering crowd with a smile. As he accepted his award, from the corner of his eye, he could...

DECA Competition Becca Polinsky After what they thought was a terrible performance, Hadley Alter and Zoe Bowman, two sophomores at Clayton High School, left the DECA marketing and management organization...

Musical Mondays Becca Polinsky   Within the walls of a comfortable senior living facility, the gentle and alleviating sound of instruments plants a smile on the faces of fifty or more gleeful...

As winter break comes to an end, it is time to go back to the daily routine at CHS. Several students received winter break assignments; however, some students remained sedentary. For most students, winter...

Only forty-four years ago the integration of blacks and whites was shunned upon – nearly prohibited. They could not sit together on the same park bench, drink out of the same water fountain, or...