Celebrations

If there’s one word that describes Flat Branch Pub & Brewing’s 20 years in Columbia, it’s consistency. Save for a major January 2000 renovation that brought the pub...

When a patient walks into Providence Urgent Care, whether with a common cold or minor injury, the wait time is usually less than 30 minutes. Throughout the United...

Amidst the 2009 mortgage meltdown, Flat Branch Home Loans expanded its 4-year-old business into a full-service mortgage banker. Then, like our waistbands at Thanksgiving dinner, the company continued...

Not many young companies can say they survived an economic downfall, but unlike those failed businesses, Beckett-Taylor Insurance has prevailed. The locally owned and operated company prides itself...

Drug abuse costs our nation upward of $600 billion annually. This drug dependency can result in high health care costs, decreased work productivity and increased crime, according to...

After more than a quarter of a century in the business of small businesses, Keith McLaughlin foresees retirement as being rather low-key. Then again, when he created and...

Over its 92 years in business, any number of preconceptions and stereotypes have built up about Columbia Country Club: It’s just “the old club.” The golf course is...

Tech Electronics and its employees have been a growing family since 1963, when founder Jim Canova first opened its doors in St. Louis. Now, 50 years later, there...

Dr. Kent willett. Photo by Jake Hamilton. Photos of family members line the cozy fireplace mantel in the inviting waiting room at Dr. Kent Willett’s dentist office. A...