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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…
Read MoreColumbia 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…
Read MoreWaterloo 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…
Read MoreSecond 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…
Read MoreCHS 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…
Read MoreCHS considers rebranding
Columbia High School will soon be getting a makeover. CHS Principal Brian Reeves spoke to the Columbia School Board at its January meeting about wanting to rebrand the school by…
Read MoreTeaching 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…
Read MoreCHS 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…
Read MoreOut with the 2010s
As this decade comes to a close, many people are taking time to reflect on what happened in their lives. The Republic-Times asked a few people to do the same…
Read MoreValmeyer FEA donates to Shriners
A group of Valmeyer High School students donated to help children less fortunate than themselves. The Valmeyer High School Future Educators of America recently provided blankets to Shriners Hospital for…
Read MoreColumbia School Board OKs tax levy
The Columbia School Board approved its 2019 tax levy, which is payable next year, at its meeting Thursday night. The district is seeking to levy approximately 4.2 percent more than…
Read MoreWaterloo School Board OKs tax levy
The Waterloo School Board unanimously approved its 2019 tax levy, which is payable next year, at its meeting Monday night. The district is requesting to levy $18,187,522, which is an…
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