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WHS takes second at Alton Round Robin

The Waterloo High School softball team was all smiles last Wednesday after an 8-4 conference stomping over Mascoutah after two losses in a row last week. Waterloo (12-9, 4-2 in…

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Name change to build on recent success at Beck

The former missile base near Hecker that is now Beck Area Career Center is changing its name as part of a new image for the educational facility. In 1958, as…

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Fire station project hits speed bump

The planned construction of a new fire station for the Waterloo Fire Department has hit a snag. Waterloo Fire Chief Mark Yeager told the Republic-Times last week that the planned…

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Columbia softball on 10-game win streak

Columbia’s 13 runs were hard to keep track of without an operating scoreboard against Red Bud (7-3) last Wednesday. At the start of the game, a Columbia High School student…

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Waterloo projects, services garner acclaim

Waterloo city officials were heaping praise all around Monday night at City Hall while announcing three recent award-winning efforts. First, Waterloo Mayor Tom Smith and public works director Tim Birk…

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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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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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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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Jury finds Coleman guilty of murder

Judge chooses life imprisonment over death penalty Into the evening hours on the second anniversary of Sheri, Garett and Gavin’s deaths, a Perry County jury of 10 women and two…

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