Columbia Fire Department Color Guard

City Opens New Fire Station

Station 11 on Scott Boulevard will improve emergency response time for growing area When John…

Chicken and Dijon Mushroom Sauce

Cookin With Hoss: Dijon Mushroom Sauce

Although the weather doesn’t always seem to be in agreement, fall is just around the…

Single Engine Plane in Sky

Inspiring Greatness Throughout CPS

In August, we gathered all of our nearly 3,000 employees together for the first time…

Kim and her daughter on graduation day from Missouri State University

I am (mostly) thankful for the lessons

I feel like every year when the kids go back to school is like a…

Tree with educational illustrations as its leaves

Helping Dreams Take Root

Founder Ray Hall and his “dream team,” made up of Karmella Wright and Eddie Pilot,…

Group of school children running through walkway with backpacks and lunch sacks.

Back-to-School Memories: My lifelong transformation

As the back-to-school season rolls around, my mind always drifts back to my own educational…

Beyond the Data cartoon illustration

Douglass Principal Says ‘Dig Deeper’

If you judge based on traditional measures of school success — test scores, attendance records,…

The 25th marker on the African-American Heritage Trail in Columbia, Missouri, recognizes the lynching of Black teen George Bush in 1889.

New Marker Recognizes ‘Despicable’ Side of Boone County History

Ceremony memorializes lynching of Black teen George Bush from the Boone County jail 134 years…

Crp Boco logo

1889 Lynching Memorial Speech

Remembering George Bush and Building Social Memory in the Face of Anti-Woke Legislation and Anti-CRT…

Gettyimages women holding up her hand which has the written words Stop Racism

Ceremony Memorializes 1889 Lynching

Local and national speakers set to address Boone County’s dark past. A ceremony to place…

Strawberry Hill Farms Floral Greenhouse

Growing Together

Mid-Missourians flock to family-owned Strawberry Hill Farms every spring and fall to fill their flowerbeds and vegetable gardens.

Jodie Jackson's pollinator on a coneflower

We asked COMO Staff… What is your favorite flora or fauna and why?

I love gnomes! I got this cute little guy at Superior Garden, but my puppy…