The candidates for the Columbia school board have been finalized. The candidates who filed in December are Erica Dickson, Ken Rice, and incumbent Suzette Waters. Only two spots are available...
Six Battle High School seniors—Lori Arnold, Grant Hughes, Breleigh Moore, Evie Pemberton, Madeline Samb, and Michelle Flores-Martinez—are moving on to the State Career Development Conference. The Missouri...
Over the past 22 years, Columbia has been home to one of the biggest all-documentary film festivals in the world. The True/False Film Festival is a four-day event that brings together filmmakers, artists,...
With winter sports coming to an end, spring sports are in full swing. This spring is a big one for the Battle Baseball program after a rough 2024 season. Battle baseball finished the 2024 season with an...
The Future Business Leaders of America, or FBLA, had their district-level competition on January 31, 2025. Districts were held in Moberly at MACC. Eleven Battle students competed this year. FBLA is the...
Battle High School celebrated Black History Month in a variety of ways this February. One constant was a pop-up art display showcasing Black Battle students' art in the guidance office. Students were encouraged...
While the Battle High School Swim Team is a small collection of mainly beginners, they have seen continuous growth during the 2024-2025 season. The team gained another member from the previous season,...
Grant Hughes, Photography Editor
• February 4, 2025
The new semester brings a new line of rehearsals to Battle Performing Arts. The new play put on by the theater is Love/Sick written by John Cariani. The play follows a series of nine different relationships...
The Battle Men’s basketball team has started their season with an 11-4 record in their first fifteen games. They have also won their first two conference games over Smith-Cotton and Rock Bridge. Battle...
On Sunday, January 5, Columbia Public Schools experienced the first snow day of the 2024-2025 school year. But something was new, students were faced with a new form of online learning called the Alternative...
TikTok has had a rough few days after the app was temporarily banned last Saturday but was almost immediately unbanned the next day. Senior J.R. Caine said, “It’s really whatever, I wasn’t super...
Backyard Club was approved at the October meeting of Battle’s Executive Council. The new club, influenced by Rock Bridge’s Pickleball Club, wanted to create an environment in which students could get...
