The Columbia, Missouri, Mayor, City Council, and School Board elections wrapped up on April 8 with familiar results. Two of the four winning candidates, mayor-elect Barbara Buffaloe and school board-elect...
Blue Springs South stunted Battles state hopes, winning 71-48 in the District Championship game March 10. Despite Battle scoring the highest against the Jaguars in the entirety of the district tournament....
The annual NCAA basketball tournament March Madness, will tip off on March 18. 68 teams make the tournament, eight being play-in teams and the rest of the sixty teams are split up into sixteen seeds with...
A salary cap gives all MLB teams a certain amount of money they can spend in a given year. Unlike the NBA and NFL, the MLB has no salary cap. This gives the more wealthy owners of the teams the advantage...
November weather can change quickly. It is one of the months with the largest difference between the highest and lowest temperatures.
The highest recorded temperature in November for Columbia was...
In Islamic culture, Ramadan is a cleansing practice that helps us open ourselves to God.
It is a month of fasting, worship, service, communal gathering and spiritual development. Ramadan is very important...
Looking to aid fellow students in need, Junior Hailey Mendez Roca, has coordinated a way for people to access necessities for this winter. Mendez Roca created a winter clothing drive as a project at the...
Agriculture Day, called Ag Day by students and staff, was held on October 16. It is a day to learn about the foundations of society, like where the food we eat and the clothes we wear come from.
This...
As a teenager, I feel like the idea of love can be quite complicated, especially around Valentine's Day. But let’s dive into the thoughts of a few people that attend and teach here at Battle.
Senior...
As winter approaches, and the holiday season begins, Columbia starts this season off by putting up holiday lights. For the last four years Veterans United has been putting together a drive-thru light display...
Standards-Referenced Grading (SRG) is a relatively new grading system that has been integrated into CPS since 2016, and will soon be making its debut at the high school level.
SRG is a new...
National Black History Month started in 1926 under President Carter G. Woodson. It began as a Black History Week, and was planned to correspond with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglas...
