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Columbia-based Boone Electric Cooperative was Missouri’s first electric coop. It was formed in 1936 as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Rural Electrification Administration. Boone Electric today has more than 28,000 individual accounts that serve about 36,000 meters. While most of its members are in Boone County, they also have members in Audrain, Callaway, Howard, Monroe and Randolph counties. Boone …

JCPenney is one of Columbia Mall’s 80 stores and is one of the mall’s three department stores (August 9, 2023 file photo from 939 the Eagle’s Brian Hauswirth) Columbia’s mayor is impressed with how Columbia Mall has pivoted from what a traditional mall looks like. https://939theeagle.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Buffaloe-Mall-1.mp3 “Bringing in things like Level Up and your different opportunities and blood drives. How …

Missouri Governor Mike Parson poses for a photo at the Missouri State Fair’s beef house in Sedalia on August 10, 2023 (photo courtesy of the governor’s Flickr page) The state fairgrounds in west-central Missouri’s Sedalia have been packed for the entire state fair, and they’ll be busy for tonight’s performance by Nelly. The state Department of Agriculture (MDA) says tonight’s …

Missouri Governor Mike Parson holds a ceremonial bill-signing of bipartisan legislation providing $2.8 billion to rebuild I-70 and expand it to six lanes across Missouri (August 15, 2023 photo courtesy of the governor’s Flickr page) Boone County’s three Democratic commissioners joined Missouri’s GOP governor for this week’s I-70 expansion bill-signing ceremony in Columbia. Boone County Presiding Commissioner Kip Kendrick says …

Incoming Mizzou students participate in the popular Tiger Walk at the MU Columns in Columbia in 2021 (file photo courtesy of MU News Bureau senior editor Sara Diedrich) You’ll see a lot of activity this afternoon at Columbia’s Faurot Field, as a few thousand incoming Mizzou students paint the M. It’s an annual tradition that dates back to 1927 when …