The online version of this story was updated on January 21, 2026. As Columbia’s social calendars shift and families settle into new routines, one activity keeps coming up in conversations among local moms: mahjong. Classes are full, groups are forming, and a weekly league has taken root, all driven by people looking for connection, focus, and […]
Even before the COVID pandemic altered the way businesses do business, Dr. Jill Luther was hatching an idea for the University of Missouri School of Veterinary Medicine to offer mobile animal surgery services. As that concept grew to fruition, the university and the vet school were making budget cuts, and adding mobile vet surgery didn’t make the
It’s difficult being a large animal veterinarian, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find them. Treating large animals is hard, sometimes dangerous work, and what’s more, it’s not as lucrative as caring for small animals in an urban area. Over an entire career, a small animal vet in the Kansas City suburbs is likely to earn much more — and get kicked by cows much less
Nestled in the Green Hills region of northern Missouri sits the small town of Trenton. It’s the county seat of Grundy County and was once the world’s largest producer of Vienna sausages. Eventually Trenton lost that title to larger cities. Still a charming community with a population of about 5,600, Trenton may now be best known as the hometown
