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Eagles are Top Seeds for SoBoCo Tournament

Eagles boys and girls haven’t won the Classic in same year since 1987. While Southern Boone High School athletics has a long history, perhaps no other single event compares with the Southern Boone Classic Basketball Tournament. “The Classic brings in a lot of good area teams,” said for Eagles player and alum and basketball fanatic

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SoBoCo School Calendar gets overhaul due to construction

If you long for the days when the school year started after Labor Day, then SoBoCo Superintendent has a school calendar for you. The Southern Boone 2017-2018 school calendar was briefly presented to the SoBoCo School Board last Tuesday during their January meeting. Felmlee walked the school board through the calendar and will ask them

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Aldermen favor pay for Rhorer, but the mayor doesn’t approve

Ashland Mayor Gene Rhorer has spent countless hours attending meetings in town and out of town, worked a number of hours each week on behalf of the city instead of his own business and all as a volunteer. Now, Ashland Board of Aldermen Jim Fasciotti and George Campbell think it is time for Mayor Rhorer

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City Tax Receipts Climb

The City of Ashland sales tax receipts continue to grow. Earlier this month City Administrator Lyn Woolford reported to the Board of Aldermen that December’s sales tax receipts were $33,164, up over the $26,806 from a year ago. Year to date, sales tax collected is $295,716 over last year’s $261,373 – a gain of nearly

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Hartzler votes to halt taxpayer funded abortions

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), Chairwoman of the House Values Action team, voted Tuesday in favor of H.R. 7, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017, a bill she is an original co-sponsor of, to stop taxpayer dollars from funding abortions. “Taxpayers should not have to fund abortions,” Hartzler

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Airport closed due to emergency on Monday

Four people on a twin engine aircraft were unharmed after a landing gear collapsed Monday afternoon after landing at Columbia Regional Airport. The Beechcraft Baron had arrived around 2:30 p.m. from Hook Field in Texas. According to City of Columbia Community Relations Director Steven Sapp, the reason is still unknown as to why the aircraft’s

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SoBoCo tops Pirates at MU

The SoBoCo Eagles boys and girls basketball teams played at Mizzou Arena on Sunday and both teams won critical games over the Boonville Pirates: • The Eagles girls snapped a 3-game losing streak and got a bit of revenge on the Pirates with a dominating 72-45 win. The Eagles lead was as much as 29

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YMCA Plans New Facility

As the Southern Boone YMCA is approaching its second anniversary of operations, it has its eye on the future. Tuesday morning, the YMCA took a big step towards that future by closing on property that will be the location of a new YMCA. The Southern Boone YMCA, a branch of the Jefferson City YMCA now

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Aldermen approve building codes

The Ashland Board of Aldermen approved the adopting of 2012 building codes on Tuesday evening – a move that aldermen say will move the City of Ashland closer to being compatible with Boone County building codes – which are expected to move to 2015 International Building Codes this spring. The difference in the 2012 codes

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