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Week Ahead: School Transfers, Tax-Free Shopping and Wine While You Shop

All that is coming this week, plus Patch has contacted Family Dollar to find the latest on what's happening with the new store.


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Here are just few of the stories you can expect to find on Olivette Patch this week.

  • By the end of the dayΒ Friday, school districts will have aΒ much better idea about where thousands of students in the failing Riverview Gardens and Normandy School Districts will be allowed to transfer, and to see how many of them will end up in Parkway, Pattonville or Ladue Schools.Β 
  • Friday starts Missouri's annual Sales Tax Free Holiday Weekend. Not all communities in the area are participating and there are some particular rules that go along with it. We'll fill you in.
  • What's happening with the progress of the new Family Dollar Store? Patch has reached out to the company to find out.
  • A nearby Schucks could soon sell wine by the glass.

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