From the air, Ashland’s boundary is beginning to resemble a runway. It’s a fitting shape, considering that the newly annexed tracts, mostly fields and forest, stretch to the northeast toward Columbia Regional Airport and represent what the city hopes will be the perfect place for new businesses to land. At Tuesday’s Ashland City Council meeting, […]
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Downtown merchants among fuel-efficient trendy travelers Cars are convenient, and bikes are nice, but when it comes to quick transportation with an effortless edge, scooter commuters have all the right moves. Richard King, owner of The Blue Note, is one of Columbia’s pioneering scooter commuters. King got his 1978 Vespa five years ago from
Administrative Director, Cancer Research Center AGE: 36 JOB DESCRIPTION: I oversee the daily operations, development activities and finances of the Cancer Research Center. HOMETOWN: Fulton. Go, Hornets! EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree from William Woods College, 1993. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: American Cancer Society Relay for Life volunteer; Delta Chi chapter of Alpha Phi sorority adviser; American Red Cross
From wild beginnings, Gold Nugget keeps cooking up fun on Columbia streets David Hestir has got a lot of nerve. No, not the kind of nerve that makes him unapproachable. You’ll be hard pressed to find anyone in Columbia so generous with a story, so quick to settle in and share a conversation with a
Several opinion pieces and comments have recently been published in regard to Missouri’s legislative term limits. But 75 percent of Missourians will not easily change their minds about this constitutional mandate. Politicians of all stripes cautiously vent about the grassroots prescription for the politics that ail us. Locally, we castigate term limits, oblivious to the
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While a chill blows across Columbia’s thermometer of economic activity, perhaps there is some solace at hand from three virtually coincidental developments. How quickly we choose to forget, or maybe deliberately ignore, the cycles of business and economic activity, ensconced as we are in a somewhat xenophobic trance here in the Athens of the Midwest.
Real Estate Loan Officer, First National Bank – Age: 32 In April 1996, after earning her bachelor’s degree in management and marketing from Columbia College, Sherry Julian Waddill moved to Tulsa, Okla., where she began working for State Bank & Trust Company as a teller and human resources administrator. In August 1999 Waddill came back
Vice President of Administration, Atkins, Inc. – Age: 38 In 1989 Emily Thoroughman graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor’s degree in English. She later moved to St. Louis, where she served as an office manager for a lawn care company. Thoroughman came back to Columbia in June 1994 and joined Atkins, Inc.,
Assistant Vice President/Auditor, Assistant Security, and BSA Compliance Officer, Boone County National Bank – Age: 32 After earning a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance from Central Missouri State University in 1995, Jennifer Thoma worked as a senior mutual fund representative for DST Systems in Kansas City. She became an operations manager for Fabri-centers of
Outcomes/Information Technology Manager, Phoenix Programs, Inc. – Age: 30 Sarah Smith Seris moved to Columbia in 1996 to earn a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Missouri. Upon graduating she became the university’s recreation services assistant facilities manager and served as an instructor and office manager for the Cedar Creek Therapeutic Riding
