Education leaders retiring after decades working at local schools
Schools throughout the metro-east are bidding farewell to teachers, principals and others who have been familiar faces for decades.
A slew of educators in St. Clair and Madison counties are retiring at the end of this school year, including the principal at Dunbar Elementary School in East St. Louis, the athletic director at Belleville West High School and Linda Grinter of Edwardsville's middle schools.