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Update: Information Regarding Senior Traditions and Events

Kierigan McEvoy, Web Assignments Editor April 16, 2020

A lot of expectations and traditions come with being a high school senior. The past few weeks teachers, counselors, and building administrators have been working hard so that these events can still take...

Mrs. Fetsch celebrates, with her FHC family, being cancer free! Even a pandemic could not stop teachers, students, and administrators from doing something a little special for a very special person.

Celebrating Our F.A.M.I.L.Y Quarantine Style

Kierigan McEvoy, Web Assignments Editor April 16, 2020

In a time of solitude and sorrow, there is still joy. There is still hope. There is still community. To honor math teacher Roxanne Fetsch, who has been battling leukemia throughout the past few years,...

Francis Howell Central High School sits empty during the COVID-19 quarantine.

School Closes For Remainder of the Year

Megan Percy, Web Editor-In-Chief April 9, 2020
Francis Howell School District will be closing it’s doors for the remainder of the 2019-2020 academic school year as part of an order handed down from Governor Mike Parsons closing all schools for this time period in the state of Missouri. Spring sports and activities in high schools have also been ordered to cease.
Pencil and paper learning has become a thing of the past, now replaced by screens and keyboards. The concept of grading has also shifted in this abnormal time.

“Hold Harmless” Grading

Kierigan McEvoy, Web Assignments Editor April 6, 2020

For a while, the Francis Howell School District has been wrestling with the issue of how grading will work during online classes, and in an extremely unpredictable time of life. On Thursday, April 2, the...

The email sent from Dr. Hendricks-Harris concerning the coming weeks.

In The Coming Weeks

Megan Percy, Web Editor-In-Chief March 22, 2020

As the predetermined spring break comes to an end for the Francis Howell School District, so begins the two-week hiatus from in-person attendance at schools across the state. While it has been mandated...

While restaurants are no longer able to offer eat-in dining, they can provide carry-out services. This allows businesses to still bring in some profit.

Restaurants in the St. Louis Area Set to Close Dining Rooms

Kana Chung, Copy Editor March 18, 2020

Tuesday, officially announced at a joint news conference of regional leaders, all restaurants and bars in the St. Louis area have been ordered to cease dine-in services by midnight on Thursday. Many establishments...

COVID-19 Live Updates

COVID-19 Live Updates

Megan Percy, Web Editor-In-Chief March 16, 2020

With the recent outbreak gaining momentum, keeping up with COVID-19's trajectory can be helpful and informative. Updates will be coming regularly throughout the days in the coming weeks. 

A banner across the FHSD website describes the suspension of school and activities across the district

FHSD Cancels School Amid COVID-19 Concerns

Kayla Reyes and Kierigan McEvoy March 15, 2020

Amid COVID-19 concerns, the Francis Howell School District has suspended all classes and activities for an extended two-week period after spring break. School is scheduled to resume on Monday, April 6....

On Wednesday, March 11, Assistant Principal Dave Stofer takes a students name as she provides him with information about her access to technology at home. The district surveyed the entire student population to see who would need help in staying connected to their school in case of school closings due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

COVID-19 Concerning Cottleville

Megan Percy, Web Editor-In-Chief March 15, 2020

A hack or a cough heard by any passerby can evoke a flinch. Hand sanitizer, surgical masks, and even toilet paper has flown off the shelves at supermarkets everywhere. Everyone is tense, waiting for the...

In this photo from December 2017, President Donald Trump speaks at the St. Charles Convention Center to a group of supporters. Just more than two years later, the U.S. House of Representatives would pass two articles of impeachment against President Trump accusing him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

Impeachment 2019 – FHC Speaks

Megan Percy, Web Editor-In-Chief December 20, 2019

The House of Representatives made history on December 18th with their decision to impeach President Trump, making him only the third president in this nation’s history to be impeached. President Trump...

Beckmann explains in his Contemporary Issues class what filling articles of impeachment means. Beckmann uses current day articles as a tool to teach his students the most updated information.

Impeachment Is The Focus of Social Studies Classes

Kierigan McEvoy, Web assignments editor October 2, 2019

The last week, history classes around school have been muddling over one word, a specific word: impeachment. This word has recently been made popular by current political events which now has forced...

The perpetrators car is removed away from the site of entry as Dr. Sonny Arnel watches on. The accident occurred at 3:45 a.m. and authorities were notified of the accident shortly afterwards.

BREAKING: SUV destroys main entrance

Lanie Sanders, Executive producer April 24, 2019
As the bells are still ringing for students to get to class, the halls of Francis Howell Central are empty. School was cancelled at 5:30 a.m due to an accident at the front entrance of the school that took place at 3:45 a.m. The Cottleville Police Department has not released information about the suspect, who was picked up in Cottleville after leaving the scene of the crime.
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