May 2010

From the Roundtable: Bike, Walk and Wheel – potholes, cracks and trash

The Columbia area couldn’t have been blessed with finer weather for the recently concluded Bike, Walk and Wheel Week events. Several days with blue skies, perfect temperatures and low humidity allowed many of us to renew contact with the area’s streets and trails after having slogged through a rather dreary winter. I cycled more than […]

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Construction Update

Eagle Stop Gas Station What: Gier Oil is building a 4,000-square-foot Phillips 66 gas station and car wash on the site of the former BP gas station owned by Gier, a company based in Eldon that operates 10 gas stations in mid-Missouri. Where: 1704 N. Providence between Country Kitchen and MG Auto Sales Contractor: Tom

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Engineering firm wins Small Business of Year

Trabue, Hansen & Hinshaw, Inc., an engineering consulting firm, was named the Columbia Chamber of Commerce’s 2010 Small Business of the Year during a luncheon Friday at the Courtyard by Marriott. Other finalists for the award were The Add Sheet!, Bucket Media, Designer Landscape, LLC and Midwest Computech. The award ceremony, which 125 people attended,

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