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Former football standout blessed by local support

A team, by definition, is a group of players forming one side in a competitive game or sport. In a local case, members of a team have formed one side…

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Four-way stop approved at Moore and Illinois

The Waterloo City Council on Monday night voted to make the intersection of Moore Street at Illinois Avenue a four-way stop per the request of the Waterloo Fire Department, which…

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Petition process begins for April election

The first day to pick up petition packets to file as candidates for the April 7, 2015, municipal elections was Tuesday. The first date to file petitions is Dec. 15…

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This year’s corn harvest among best ever

By ALAN DOOLEY Following on the heels of a great wheat harvest this past spring, positive results are coming in for this year’s corn crop in Monroe County. Some are…

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Gas leak in Waterloo

The Waterloo Fire Department is responding to a report of a gas leak from a meter at 129 Roosevelt Drive. The call for service went out at 4:40 p.m. Tuesday.

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Fire call at Garden Place in Columbia

The Columbia Fire Department responded shortly before 4 p.m. Tuesday to the Garden Place elder care facility for a fire alarm. There was a report of smoke in a hallway…

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2014 Pigskin Pick’em week 3 winner

Week 3 of the 2014 Pigskin Pick’em Contest is now over. Taking home first place is Michelle Jones, with an impressive 13/16 correct picks! She’s the winner of a bicycle…

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Police blotter 9/17/14

Columbia Police Sept. 12: Lawrence R. Thurman II, 44, of Columbia, was arrested on an in-state warrant at 119 Clearwater Court. Sept. 13: John A. Alvey Jr., 55, of Waterloo,…

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Injury crash in Millstadt

Police, fire and EMS crews were dispatched to the scene of a three-car crash with two reported injuries at the intersection of Polk and Washington streets in Millstadt at around…

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Vehicle crash west of Waterloo on Route 156

Shortly before noon on Sunday, police were handling a two-vehicle crash on Route 156 near Fountain Creek Ridge Lane west of Waterloo. The vehicles involved were a Honda Accord and…

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