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Waterloo falls in its first game of the season

The Waterloo Bulldogs aren’t padding their schedule to start off the season with “easy” non-conference wins. Instead, the Waterloo High School boys basketball team kicked-off its season on Tuesday night…

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Kueker joins Illinois Senior Hall of Fame

The Illinois Department on Aging presented awards to the 2012 Senior Hall of Fame class Oct. 24 in Springfield. The Senior Hall of Fame was created in 1994 to honor…

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Judge: Coleman bodies can be relocated

A Randolph County judge on Monday afternoon ruled that the bodies of a Columbia mother and her two sons murdered in 2009 can be moved from their current resting places…

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Fort Kaskaskia building destroyed by fire

Fire destroyed the main shelter building at Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site in rural Ellis Grove shortly before midnight on Halloween night, the North County News reported.  The Ellis Grove…

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Two area former Major Leaguers remembered

Two former Major League Baseball pitchers with area ties have recently passed away. Former Detroit Tiger and Mon-Clair League Hall of Famer Leslie Clyde “Les” Mueller died Oct. 25, at…

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Strange lights in the Tuesday night sky

Sheriff’s department deputies in Monroe and St. Clair counties turned their eyes to the sky Tuesday night near Paderborn just east of Waterloo, after multiple callers reported seeing unusual lighted…

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Martyred Ruma nuns still remembered 20 years later

The top headline in the Nov. 4, 1992, issue of the Republic-Times read “Waterloo Nuns Killed in Liberia.” Despite an election, three of the four front page stories focused on…

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Coleman bodies to remain in Chester, for now

A judge in Randolph County ruled Tuesday that the bodies of a Columbia mother and her two sons cannot be exhumed from their current resting place in a Chester cemetery.…

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SPPCS wins state

The Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic School baseball team won state on Monday. SPPCS defeated St. Bruno-Tamaro, 4-0, in the Class S SIJHSA state championships in Coulterville. The game was…

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The many (cowboy) hats of Colonel Edd Kueker

When Colonel Edd Kueker of Waterloo was once asked how long he could talk about the history of Monroe County and his western antique collection, he responded, “Well, how long…

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