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Holiday Mishaps and How Insurance Can Help

  • Sponsored by Mike Messer, Shelter Insurance

The holidays are a time for joy, celebration and making memories with loved ones, and keeping your home and family safe adds peace of mind to the festivities....

COMO Magazine represents at the Missouri Women Who Write Retreat. Pictured left to right: Sunitha Bosecker (freelance writer), Kelsey Winkeljohn, and Karen Pasley (contributing copyeditor)

The COMO Mojo: ‘Celebration,’ Track 3

Some of my favorite memories are the ones that, at first glance, might seem random and insignificant — as in, they just feel like weird little blips of...

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Steamed Mussels

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, or rather it has been for some time now. But we’re getting to the serious phase, when all the holiday...

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Pulling Together  

A short drive from the small town of Clark, Missouri, best known for its Amish community and rich agricultural landscape, Cedar Hollow Farms has upheld one tradition for...

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Listening, Learning, and Moving Forward — Together

Each year, the city of Columbia conducts a citizen survey to understand how residents feel about our community and their local government. The 2024 results gave us a...

Cathédrale Sainte Bénigne - Dijon, FRANCE - 01-30-2025: Stained glass (19th century) of Christmas Nativity Scene with Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph, and Jesus baby.

Celebrating Christmas

This month, we celebrate the events that happened thousands of years ago, events centered around the town of Bethlehem, the city where King David was born and raised....

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Limited-Edition Ornaments Tell COMO’s History  

Central Bank of Boone County has commissioned holiday ornaments commemorating famous Columbia landmarks every year since 1988, with the first ornament depicting Jesse Hall at the University of...

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Columbia Native Publishes Children’s Christmas Book

I would love to say that my foray into the world of children’s publishing was a labor of love, but the truth is that the actual book-writing part...

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(Re)Discover COMO

  • Sponsored by Columbia Convention and Visitor's Bureau

Cooper’s Landing Just a few miles south of Columbia off Route K at 11505 Smith Hatchery Road, Cooper’s Landing Riverside Resort & Marina is the go-to place for...

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Big Flavor

On a cozy Saturday morning, JoJo’s Biscuit Company is already a packed house, suggesting the food is worth the hype. Every mustard-yellow booth is full, and the smell...