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Hawks Win Scholar Bowl Sectional
By Monroe County Independent |
For the first time in school history, Gibault High School has won the Illinois Masonic Academic Bowl’s Sectional Championship on Feb. 15 Greenville. The Hawks defeated 11 schools to advance to the state tournament on March 7. The team is Brennan Wills, Alex Gomez, Spencer Biske, Noah Newton, Kaleb Hugger and Josh Eichholz. The Hawks……
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Dent Makes All State Band
Playing the tuba is leading Patrick Dent to great heights. The Columbia High School student blew past the competition at an October audition to earn first chair honors for the All-District Band. Not resting on his laurels, Dent advanced to the All-State Band, which recently performed a concert in Peoria. Dent was accompanied by CHS……
Rose Earns Best Of Fair Honors
An experiment on the luminosity garnered the Emily Rose ‘Best Of Fair’ award at the Immaculate Conception Science Fair. Her project, “Let There Be Light”, concluded that the longer the length of a 24-gauge wire, the higher the resistance becomes which causes as voltage drop across the lighting circuit. “The end result will be a dimmer……
CHS Named 2020 Illinois All-State Pep Band
For the 11th time, the Columbia High School Band has been named the 2020 Illinois All-State Pep Band. The honor means the Eagles will fly to Bloomington on Feb. 29 to provide musical entertainment at the Class 1A and 2A State Girls Basketball Finals at Illinois State’s Redbird Arena. The CHS pep band will play……
Scheffel Boyle Adds Four Accountants And 12 Interns
Scheffel Boyle CPAs, an accounting firm with locations throughout the metro east area, has hired four new staff accountants and 12 interns. The four new staff accountants are SIUE graduates Jessica Lake, Zach Williams, Evan Tyson and Jett Durr. The firm plans to hire more later this year, adding to its more than 100 employees…….
Cope Is A New U of I Extension Director
by Joe Leicht The University of Illinois Extension’s Unit 22 (serving the counties of Monroe, Madison and St. Clair) has a new director, and she’s about as “from home” as she could be. Amy Cope, daughter of Larry and Marlene Wild, has been a busy woman since graduating from Waterloo High School in 1998. She……
Pen Pals Enrich WHS Spanish Students
by John Layton The friends made in high school are often friends for life. But the Spanish III and IV classes at Waterloo High School are forging connections with fellow students they may never meet. In November, the classes received introduction letters from their new pen pals in Asturias, Spain. The students have replied, although……
Four New Eagle Scouts In Columbia
Four young men from Boy Scout Troop 320 in Columbia recently celebrated their Eagle Court of Honor ceremony. The boys are Caleb Bahr, David Broske, Lukas Grohmann and Ryan Worley. Each worked on an Eagle Project that they are proud of. Caleb repaired crumbling and cracked surfaces on the entryways and parking lot at Faith……
Improvements Coming To Zahnow Parking Lot
At the first Waterloo Board of Education meeting of 2020, the board approved parking lot improvement projects for Zahnow Elementary and Rogers Elementary. The project was awarded to L. Keeley Construction, a St. Louis company. The bid was in the amount of $263,745. Tim Downen, from engineering firm Hurst-Rosche, Inc., spoke to the board about……
Columbia School District Considers Rebranding Eagles’ Logo
by John Layton By this time next year, Columbia High School could have a newly refinished gym floor, as well and a new, unique Eagles logo. At its first regular meeting of the year on Thursday, Jan. 16, the Columbia Board of Education approved the low bid from Best Gym Floor Art, a Pinckneyville-based company…….
WHS Pep Band Alumni Night
Waterloo High School Band Director Zach Smith invites former pep band members to return to their alma mater to take part in Alumni Night on Friday, Feb. 21. BYOI – just bring your own instrument and show up at the band room at 6 p.m. After a short rehearsal, it is off to the gym……
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