Nick Otten, CHS Associate Director of the Drama Department and former Honors American Literature teacher, shares his insights. Q: How did you come to St. Louis? A: My dad was a soldier in World War II....

Five and a half miles away from Clayton, a fluorescent sign hangs above Manchester Avenue, marking the entrance to a strip of restaurants, coffee shops, bars and street art known as The Grove. On a Saturday...

“[On the trail], the day pretty much consists of waking up, hiking, getting there, setting up camp, cooking and going to sleep,” junior Daniel Soares, who recently returned from a semester at the High...

“You get in, go through security and walk through the yard. It really does feel like a prison,” Robert Henke, Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, said....

Until five months ago, Dr. Kayra Merrills, the new Spanish teacher at CHS, had her life planned out. After working for five years on her PhD and finally finishing her dissertation, she was looking for...

“We got to school the day that we were leaving, and we loaded up the car and lit out for the west!” CHS Senior Eleanor Troupis said. Troupis was one of four students who joined CHS Environmental Science...

  “I was like, ‘I’m in Africa, I want to go adventure,’ so I was always out, leader of the group, running around exploring things,” CHS sophomore Christine Burris said. “They’re guessing...

Kate Reeves works as a rock wall belayer at the Center of Clayton. Q: What’s your hourly wage? A: $8.00 an hour. Q: What does your job consist of? A: I have to watch the climbers at all times, but...

Henry Brown worked as a intern at the St. Louis Office of the Mayor. Q:  What’s your hourly wage? A: I’m an unpaid intern. I get paid in recommendation letters. Q:  Hours per week? A: I usually...

When CHS freshman Dominic Anzalone attended Fazio’s Rock Camp the summer before sixth grade, little did he know that his life as a musician would be changed drastically. The students arrived on Monday...