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Sunset Overlook keeps liquor license
Columbia’s Sunset Overlook will keep its liquor license. The Liquor Control Commission met Friday with the owners of Sunset Overlook in a hearing to determine the status of its liquor…
First Bank selling local branches
First Bank announced this week that it is selling 14 of its 94 branches – including the Waterloo, Columbia and Red Bud locations – to other banks. The company said…
Thefts from unlocked vehicles in Millstadt
Millstadt police are investigating several reports of thefts from unlocked vehicles overnight in the Stonebridge Estates subdivision off Route 158 on the eastern edge of town. The suspect vehicle is…
Crash on Route 3 south of Waterloo
Emergency personnel responded shortly before 1:15 p.m. Thursday to a four-vehicle crash on Route 3 at LL Road south of Waterloo that resulted in one minor injury. The Red Bud…
Waterloo is Elsa Strong
For about 4.5 years, Elsa Wiemerslage has been battling a rare form of pediatric cancer called acute myeloid leukemia. And for almost that entire time, Waterloo has been helping Wiemerslage…
Durbin: farmers treated unfairly
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) released a statement earlier this month accusing the United States Department of Agriculture of treating Illinois soybean farmers unfairly by playing favorites with trade war…
Prairie du Rocher plans future
The future of Prairie du Rocher is uncertain, but citizens and local leaders are working to make sure one of the oldest communities begun by French colonists in the United…
Second graders publish book
A group of second graders at Rogers Elementary School in Waterloo recently did something most adults have not done. The students became published authors. “It’s great because we all wrote…
Updates underway at Valmeyer museum
The Monroe City School building in Valmeyer and the museum it houses are slated for updates in the near future. The Valmeyer Community Heritage Society has already scheduled work to…
Columbia DQ 2.0 welcomes you
After nearly six months of work, the Columbia Dairy Queen reopened to customers on Feb. 3. The remodel involved replacing virtually everything in the building, from lighting to menu panels,…