Features

Featured Cyclists Enjoy The New Perche Creek Trail Bridge

Connected by Design 

Editor’s note: The June 2025 feature story in COMO Magazine incorrectly reported that the thirty-mile…

Featured Mr 340 Participants Paddle On Missouri River In Kansas City

Racing Against Themselves 

Considering his almost intimate connection to the Missouri River, it’s difficult to imagine a time…

The Breakfast Stack

Truman’s Bar & Grill

20 years of cheers, wings, and Bloody Mary  For two decades, Truman’s Bar & Grill…

Boone County Nature School Instructor

Boone County Nature School Celebrates its First Year

With the Boone County Nature School concluding its first year, student reactions are positive. “I…

Featured Electric Utility Station

Utility Confronts Futility

In the beginning, there were warnings by Columbia Water & Light staff that Columbia’s electric…

Featured 823 E Broadway My Secret Garden 1978 Vs 2025

Downtown’s Oldest Buildings

823 E. Broadway  From Boots and Shoes to Bouquets  For 15 years, My Secret Garden…

Featured Crowded Gallery Photo By Elizabeth Jordheim

Evenings of Art, Music, and Food

As the sun sets on the first Friday of every month, the North Village Arts…

Featured Physical Paper Book Turning Into Digital Computer Files

Pages to Pixels

For more than two centuries, Columbia’s history has been documented in photographs, newspapers, and legal…

Featured Covid Icu Nurses Reflecting On Pandemic Experiences

COVID Reflections

People didn’t believe that COVID was real and that so many people lost their lives…

Featured Work Boot Print In Mud

Dirty Jobs 

Columbia is home to many forms of “dirty jobs,” from septic tank pumping, landscaping, welding,…

The Columbia, Missouri City Hall building, highlighted by high, pillowy clouds against a blue sky.

Murphy and Heath Challenge Buffaloe for Mayor’s Seat

Incumbent Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe faces three challengers in the April 8, 2025, municipal election.…

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CPS Board Candidates Talk Yearwood Departure, Charter Schools

Voters in the Columbia Public Schools on April 8 will choose two candidates from the…