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It’s a new year now, and that means it is time for New Year’s resolutions.…
As a property owner and long-time former resident of north central Columbia, I read with…
Bill Coats grew up in west central Columbia and remembers, in the early 1960s, an old corner store at the junction of Sexton Road and McBaine Avenue. He didn’t shop there often because his parents thought it was safer for the kids to walk from their home on the south side of Worley Street to another market a few blocks south to avoid crossing the busy street.
Although those stores are long gone, Coats, now 58, has his own community market at McBaine and Sexton. Unitee Market was his chance to run his first business and fill the neighborhood’s need for a store within reasonable walking distance.
Fifty years ago, every neighborhood was dotted with small mom-and-pop grocery stores that provided friendly,…
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At their winter retreat, City Council members expressed support for City Manager Bill Watkins’ plan…
Many think of Richard Mendenhall as the owner of Columbia’s largest real estate firm and, perhaps, as a developer.
Mendenhall sees himself differently: “What I’d like on my tombstone is ‘Teacher and Mentor.’”
That’s what he wanted to be when he returned from the Vietnam War where he served in the U.S. Army Special Forces, also known as the Green Berets. Mendenhall said he was an indifferent student before the war. No more.
Ten-year-old Amiyha, a fourth-grader at Field Elementary, shines. She’s tall and athletic — a shoe-in…
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Lucille Salerno knows the value of education. She holds an M.A. from City University of…
The demand for social services generally increased by double digits this year in Columbia, where the unemployment rate rose as high as 8 percent. Donations to many individual charities decreased, and the city’s overall allocation to social services declined by 1 percent.
There was, however, a saving grace in 2009; contributions to the Heart of Missouri United Way remained steady. (And unemployment has dropped to about 6 percent.)
Dr. Timothy Fete was working as associate chairman at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis when MU offered him the job of directing its Children’s Hospital.
Fete said the “hook” that helped lure him to Columbia was MU’s decision last fall to expand and consolidate all of its pediatric operations — now housed on two floors of University Hospital and in about a dozen other facilities — and move them to Columbia Regional Hospital. It will be one of 50 free-standing children’s hospitals in the country and the only one in mid-Missouri.
