The Food Network has described Columbia’s popular Peggy Jean’s Pies as one of the ten best pies in the universe. Peggy Jean’s Pies started near the Business Loop and later moved to where Broadway Brewery is currently located downtown. Peggy Jean’s Pies co-founder Rebecca Wagster Miller appeared on-studio on 939 the Eagle’s “CEO Roundtable” on Saturday, and tells host Fred …
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(AUDIO): Radiothon continues through 6 this evening
An artist’s rendering of the planned $232 million new Children’s Hospital project in Columbia (rendering courtesy of MU Health Care) A new physician at Children’s Hospital in Columbia is a 2007 graduate of Jefferson City (JC) high school. Dr. Tyler Severance is a specialist in pediatric hematology-oncology. He tells 939 the Eagle’s “Randy Tobler show” that he’s had a blast …
Read More »UPDATE: Jefferson City murder suspect indicted
A Cole County grand jury has indicted a Jefferson City double murder suspect. 35-year-old Damien Davis of Kansas City has been indicted on two counts of first degree murder and five other felonies. The indictment replaces earlier charges that were filed in Late November. Cole County prosecutors say Davis allegedly killed J. Pfenny’s employee Skyler Smock and customer Corey Thames …
Read More »(AUDIO): MFA Oil Rootin Tootin chili cookoff is Saturday in Columbia
Members of Zimmer Communication’s team at the 2022 MFA Oil Rootin Tootin Chili Cookoff (2022 file photo courtesy of Columbia’sWally Pfeffer) Hundreds of people are expected to be at Columbia’s Holiday Inn Executive Center for Saturday’s 17th annual MFA Oil Rootin Tootin chili cookoff. Event organizer Kerrie Bloss says the event is expected to raise about $100,000 for the Boys and …
Read More »Funding efforts are underway for a new hospital in Mexico, Missouri
This is an artist’s rendering of a proposed 65,000 square foot hospital in mid-Missouri’s Mexico (February 2023 graphic courtesy of “Mexico Ledger” editor Mathew Pilger) A doctor and nurse in mid-Missouri’s Mexico hope to open a brand-new 65,000 square feet hospital in the next 16 months. The town has been without a hospital since the Audrain County community hospital closed …
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