The Columbia Chamber of Commerce is leading an initiative to form a regional partnership that includes 18 business organizations in 12 counties. The idea is that banding together can help the region attract and retain major industries, expand roadways and other infrastructure and reinforce its waning political influence in the state capitol. Bob Gerding, who […]
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Boone County’s largest manufacturing plant, a land-anchor factory founded by A.B. Chance and now owned by Hubbel Power Systems, is commemorating its 100th anniversary this year. The first volume of Centralia Wizard, a book telling the story of the company from its 1907 inception through 1936, was published this summer to coincide with the centennial.
The Thomas Jefferson Agricultural Institute has received two grants to support construction projects at the Jefferson Farm and Gardens learning center, scheduled to open next year in southeast Columbia off on New Haven Road. The institute, a non-profit organization engaged in agricultural education and research projects, is developing Jefferson Farm and Gardens, a 67-acre, multi-faceted
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Amid concerns about threats to local water quality, the Fayetteville, Ark., real estate development company Lindsey Management Co., is building a 768-unit apartment complex on East Clark Lane, near the I-70/Highway 63 Interchange. The complex, called The Links of Columbia is part of a larger wave of development taking place in response to the anticipated
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Imagine Columbia’s Future project formulates citizen topic group goals What are your expectations and dreams for Columbia? The city wants to know. With Imagine Columbia’s Future, a community-wide discussion, citizens can create a shared vision of the city for the coming decades. In the fall, more than 420 people came to Big Idea Gathering meetings,
Student entrepreneurs trade schoolbooks for bookkeepers Adam Guy and Brian Laoruangroch were too eager to start their businesses to wait until they’d graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Guy, owner of The Upper Crust and Coldstone Creamery on Elm Street, actually earned his first paycheck at age 7 from a client who saw him performing
