WHS Speech Team ends season

While it may not have ended the way they wanted, overall the Waterloo High School Speech team had another stellar season.  Six individual members went to state, as did the…

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Columbia hires new superintendent

The Columbia School Board unanimously voted Thursday night to hire Chris Grode as the district’s new superintendent. Grode will take over July 1 from Victor Buehler, who has been serving…

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Waterloo OKs SRO; AD resigns

The Waterloo School Board unanimously approved an intergovernmental agreement with the Waterloo City Council on Monday that provides for a school resource officer for the district from the Waterloo Police…

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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…

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CHS class covers music history

A new course at Columbia High School is giving students a perspective on history they normally would not get until college, if ever.  That class is called social/political history of…

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Teaching impeachment

For only the third time in America’s history, a president has been impeached.  The U.S. House of Representatives voted in December to impeach President Donald Trump, and Trump’s trial began…

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CHS student dies

The Columbia school district notified parents Thursday that a Columbia High School student died that day. The student was identified as Hope Alexis Campos.  “Our thoughts and sympathies are with…

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