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…

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Valmeyer 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…

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VFW 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,…

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Millstadt 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…

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Sunset 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…

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From 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…

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MASC 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,…

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New 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…

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