A High Ridge woman follows in her father's boot steps to serve her country--and have her college paid for, too.
Tess Kliethermes, a recent Northwest High grad, wants to go to college. But she didnt' want to carry a heavy student debt. “Debts and loans were not something I wanted to get into at all,” said the 18-year-old. So as a junior, Kliethermes sought out a fellow student who had enlisted in the Missouri Army National Guard and asked him about the experience. “After that I spoke to a recruiter about the Guard’s college tuition benefits and ended up enlisting in November 2011,” she said. Kliethermes’ decision to join the military was applauded by her father, David Kliethermes, an Army veteran. Sukja Kliethermes, her mother, was not so keen on the idea. “My mom didn’t want me to mess with the military at all,” Kliethermes said. “She wanted me to…
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Summit and Northwest among those teams impacted by rain, hail and thunderstorms Friday night.
"You can't fool Mother Nature," one high school football official said Friday evening. "Mother Nature's in control." That unnamed official was speaking not from the sidelines of Friday's John Burroughs-St Louis Priory matchup, but from the confines of the Science Building of the Burroughs campus, minutes after severe weather suspended the game at 5:15 p.m. Many games which were supposed to kick off later Friday at 7 p.m. never began. Parkway Central waited out the weather and started after 8 p.m. The Colts' homecoming tilt against Seckman sent everyone home happy, albeit a little late, by a score of 49-7. Here's part of Saturday's new-look schedule, complicated by having to arrange officiating crews in some cases, and in other cases …
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Rockwood Summit High School
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