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Haunted Trail celebrating 30 years
An October tradition that predates the pumpkin spice craze returns beginning this Friday. The Waterloo Sportsman’s Club Haunted Trail begins this weekend, marking its 30th year of providing fun scares…
Read MoreLongtime bartender buys The Outsiders
Regular patrons at The Outsiders in Waterloo may soon be seeing more of a familiar face, as longtime bartender David Melican recently purchased the bar. “I was kind of lucky,…
Read MoreValmeyer digs for Derek
Neon green T-shirts filled the Valmeyer High School gym as teachers, students and the community rallied around a VHS graduate Thursday night before, during and after the high school volleyball…
Read MoreFort celebrating special milestone
A local landmark known in its heyday as the place all roads led and the “Versailles of the West” is celebrating a milestone anniversary. Fort de Chartres is set to…
Read MoreVFW project honors Keim
For years, Mark Keim and Stan Darter would go every Friday to the Waterloo VFW where they volunteered. Keim, who started volunteering after his longtime VFW member father, Glenn, died,…
Read MoreMillstadt brewery set for debut
Millstadt will welcome a new business this week, as Millpond Brewing & Incubator is set to open Thursday at noon. The brewery is owned by Bryan Schubert of Millstadt, who…
Read MoreEvent offers healing through horses
Despite only having lived in the area for about seven months, Laura Neiheisel is already giving back. She is doing that by offering a free event for families with children…
Read MoreSunset Overlook granted stay
In a victory for Sunset Overlook, Judge Julia Gomric temporarily suspended her order against the embattled Columbia establishment on Sept. 20. “The court will not comment on (Sunset Overlook’s) likeliness…
Read MoreFrom WHS to CEO
When he was a teenager growing up in Waterloo, David Hoffmann’s first job was stuffing inserts for the Republic-Times newspaper on Saturdays. He soon moved on to work at John’s…
Read MoreMASC performs 100th show
In 1999, Kelly and Mike Hemmer put an ad in the local newspaper to gauge interest in forming a community theater group in Monroe County. They got a small response,…
Read MoreNew trail OK’d in Columbia
The Columbia Department of Public Works has another project to add to its already busy schedule. The city recently received a Transportation Alternatives Program grant, a federally-funded program designed to…
Read MoreCDC warns of vaping-related illness ‘outbreak’
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning citizens about what it calls an “outbreak” of vaping-related illnesses. That comes as 530 cases of individuals getting sick from a…
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