The Columbia School Board met for its first – fairly brief – meeting of the year onThursday, discussing concrete and other preparation for the next phase of the high ...

Not long after the Illinois Department of Health announced the state’s overall respiratory illness cases had reached the ...

The Waterloo High School basketball team got back into the win column following a three-game rough patch. Meanwhile, Columbia ...

While other local high school girls hoops squads are trying to take the lid off the basket, it’s been nothing but net of late ...

The Waterloo High School boys bowling squad placed fourth at the Columbia Regional held Friday at West Park Bowl to advance ...

The Waterloo High School boys wrestling squad performed well at the St. Charles Invitational over the weekend, placing second ...

I used to wonder why principals and retired teachers seemed to lose sight of being in the classroom. Principals would make some decision, usually about discipline, that I thought ...

Todd A. Wallace, 57, of Waterloo, died Jan. 19, 2025, in Waterloo. He was born Feb. 24, 1967, in Dupo. Todd was a U.S. Army ...

James Michael “Mike” Heller, 74, of Columbia, died peacefully on Jan. 16, 2025. Mike was the oldest of five children, born in ...

William “Bill” C. Hawn, of Columbia, died peacefully on Jan. 17, 2025, in St. Louis at Evelyn’s House, surrounded by his ...

Emergency personnel responded shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday to a single-vehicle rollover crash on Route 159 near Sunset Lane ...

David Phillip Smith, 74, of Columbia, Jan. 13, 2025, at Mercy Hospital South in St. Louis. He was born on Dec. 28, 1950, in ...