Longtime Columbia teacher retires
When Denise Cogo started teaching kindergarten at Parkview Elementary School in Columbia in the fall of 1998, she took over for Linda Schmersahl, who...
WHS student is Entrepreneur of the Year
The Monroe County startUP program recently announced this year’s winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Using a combination of a rubric from the...
Longtime WHS art teacher retires
While the typical fanfare may not be accompanying teachers who retired at the end of this school year, their contributions have still been felt...
Columbia School Board OKs roof work
The Columbia School Board decided how to address the parts of the roof at Columbia High School in need of immediate work, choosing an...
CDC offers reopening guidelines
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released six “decision trees” aimed at helping decision makers as they look to reopen amid the...
WHS honors Class of 2020
Waterloo High School graduates now join the ranks of other area students who have seen the milestone of their graduation transformed by the coronavirus...
Gibault grad researching COVID
A Columbia native is part of a team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis that is on the forefront of researching the...
Columbia School Board closer to roof decision
The Columbia School Board is one step closer to making a decision on what it will do regarding roof repairs or replacement at Columbia...
Waterloo graduation kerfuffle
The Waterloo School Board spent the majority of its meeting Monday night hearing public comments on graduation plans.
Graduation was supposed to be May 17,...
VHS seniors saluted with parade
Twenty-six years after the Valmeyer High School Class of 1994 held its graduation ceremony in front of a vacant, flood-ravaged high school, the Class...
CHS graduation goes virtual
At left, Emma Groetecke gives her valedictorian speech. At right, valedictorian Caleb Bahr picks up his diploma during the Columbia High School virtual commencement.
While...
CDC offers reopening advice
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released six “decision trees” last week aimed at helping decision makers as they look to reopen amid...