Waterloo Piranhas | Team of the Week
The Republic-Times Team of the Week is the Waterloo Piranhas summer swim team. The Piranhas wrapped up their 2025 season with a series of strong performances, concluding their dual meet…
Read More‘If you can keep it’ | Ott Observations
Recently I read an editorial by Solomon Stevens, author of the book “Religion, Politics, and the Law.” In his view, representative democracy can be so frustrating it draws us to…
Read MoreThe bike | Mark’s Remarks
How important was your bike when you were growing up? To most kids growing up in the 1970s and 80s, the bike was like an extra limb. I live in…
Read MorePolice Blotter | 7-23-25
(Information in this report is gathered from police agencies, county courts and emergency radio dispatch. The public is reminded that defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty and charges may…
Read MoreReal Estate Transactions | July 14-18, 2025
The location of real estate transactions with only the parcel number listed may be viewed be entering the number on the Monroe County GIS website ‘Parcel Viewer.’ All transactions may…
Read MoreMan brings meth to probation hearing
A local man was sent to prison after police said he showed up to the courthouse for a hearing with his probation officer while in possession of methamphetamine and fake…
Read MoreCarol L. Peters-Boyer | Obituary
Carol Lee Peters-Boyer (nee Braddee), 78, of Waterloo, died July 23, 2025, at Mercy Hospital South in St. Louis. She was born in Syracuse, N.Y., to Francis and Josephine (nee…
Read MoreEmma J. Krick | Obituary
Emma Jean Krick (nee Mann), 86, of Fort Collins, Co., passed peacefully into God’s arms on June 30, 2025, at Pathways of Northern Colorado, surrounded by family. Emma was born…
Read MoreClarabelle M. Bacon | Obituary
Clarabelle May Bacon (nee Weber), 96, years of Columbia, died peacefully in her sleep at her home on July 24, 2025. She was born May 18, 1929, in East Carondelet.…
Read MoreDemo derby fires on all cylinders
The temperature was hot at the start of Friday’s Monroe County Fair Demolition Derby, but the action in the muddy main arena got even hotter as the night went along.…
Read MoreHay bale fire in rural Waterloo barn
Multiple fire departments responded shortly after 11:15 p.m. Saturday to hay bales on fire inside a barn on Buss Branch Road just east of Waterloo in rural St. Clair County.…
Read MoreJeffrey P. Mueller | Obituary
Jeffrey Paul “Jeff” Mueller, 58, of Germantown, died June 30, 2025, in O’Fallon. He was born Aug. 8, 1966, in Belleville. Jeff worked for Jung Truck Service in Mascoutah. He…
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