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Nixa football will host Kirkwood in the Class 6 state semifinal round of the 2024 Missouri high school football playoffs. The winner will advance to next week's championship game in Columbia. Nixa ...
Kirkwood is an inner-ring western suburb of St. Louis located in St. Louis County, Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 27,540. [ 5 ] Founded in 1853, the city is named after James P. Kirkwood , builder of the Pacific Railroad through that city.
Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton (December 23, 1955 – February 7, 2008) [15] was a lifelong resident of Meacham Park, an unincorporated predominantly African American community that bordered Kirkwood in St. Louis County, Missouri. In 1992, a ballot proposition appeared under which Kirkwood, an abutting, comparatively prosperous city with only a ...
Michael Emil "Mike" Swoboda (September 29, 1938 – September 6, 2008) was the mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri for two periods (2000–2008). He was wounded on February 7, 2008, when Charles "Cookie" Thornton went on a shooting rampage at a meeting in the city hall. Swoboda, who was one of the targets of the rampage, was taken to St. John’s Mercy ...
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Olive Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church (also known as Olive Chapel AME Church, and Evangelische Friedens Gemneinde Lutheran Congregation) is a historic church built in 1899, and located at 309 S. Harrison Avenue in Kirkwood, Missouri. It is the oldest Protestant church in Kirkwood. [2]
He grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri. He was a resident of Kirkwood, Missouri, who worked as a manager for Imo's Pizza and as a part-time funeral home worker at Bopp Chapel. [5] According to a friend, Devlin had once been outgoing. He had changed "to a much quieter person" after he developed diabetes and had two toes amputated in 2002. [6]
Kirkwood High school was featured in CNN's “Heroin: The poisoning of America” [7] and was covered nationally by CNN's Deborah Feyerick. The area of Kirkwood, Missouri was found to have four times the national average of heroin overdoses. Kirkwood High School was recognized as a National Blue Ribbon school for the 2022-2023 school year. [8]