Articles
Terminal cancer patients find comfort in new palliative care clinic
Audrey Fitch is filming her life with cancer to show others what it’s like to live with the disease, as opposed to dying from it.
Action & acceptance
When Broadway Christian Church became aware that a member of its congregation was a convicted sex offender in 2000, it made a decision to implement a policy that would allow the church to welcome convicted sex offenders without endangering children and youth.
Belief in brief: L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard would have turned 97 earlier this week. Hubbard, born on March 13, 1911 and the founder of the Church of Scientology, died more than 20 years ago, but his religion, writings, and work live on.
Bursting at the seams
Maxine Nelson has taught in the Columbia Public School District for 29 years, 19 of those at West Junior High School. Two of those years at West have been spent in a trailer just outside of the school’s main building.
Their town: pop. 17
McBAINE — There are probably more candidates vying for the 2008 presidency than there are residents in McBaine, 10 miles south of Columbia. The town has just 17 people. Count them. It won’t take long.
CoMo’s spring not on calendar
Spring tiptoes in on Tuesday. Officially, the new season arrives when the sun shines exactly above the equator. But in CoMo, we’ll know it’s really spring when...
The people’s encyclopedia anoints our local celebs
Wikipedia.org offers a “selected list” of the rich and famous with Columbia connections. Here’s how the Web site describes them (and some of our own commentary).
Carrie Bremer
It may not be fashionable, but I still love my ... Gray yoga pants. My sister bought them for me while I was pregnant with my first child and then I wore them again while I was pregnant a second time and we were redoing the house, so they have paint all over them.
Translating Shakespeare to the ancient tongue Tlingit
Noticed in a nightclub
“Sweet Home Columbia” is one song title that could put $150 in your pocket.
