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Chamber, CREDI working to bring Dinner Train to AnchorFest

Posted on May 14, 2013 at 7:39 pm

Centralia Regional Economic Development, Inc. and the Centralia Chamber of Commerce are working together to try and bring the Columbia Star Dinner Train to Centralia for AnchorFest. The idea, said Ginny Zoellers, director of the Centralia Chamber of Commerce, is to make an opportunity to show off Centralia and its attractions. The current proposed plan is for the train to come June 2 for the Sunday concerts and car show,

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  • CHS artists dominate contests

    Posted on April 30, 2013 at 5:26 pm

    The finest of the Centralia R-VI school district’s fine arts students displayed their art at the Centralia Country Club the afternoon of April 25. Centralia High School art teacher Rachel Renaud brought seven of her lead students to the country club to display some of their work. This year CHS’ art students took best of show in three regional art contests: the Columbia College art contest, the Tri-State Area contest

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  • Centralia FFA places second overall at state

    Posted on April 23, 2013 at 5:09 pm

    A group of Centralia High School FFA students brought home a state title at the annual state convention this past weekend in Columbia. Selestia Angell, Kelsey Bruns, Carrie Drake, Liz Gilbert, Sylvia Romine, Austin Stanton and Sam Sudbrock competed as a team in Agricultural Issues and won first place. They will represent the state of Missouri at the National Convention, Oct. 29 – Nov. 2 in Louisville, Kentucky. Teams in

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Chamber, CREDI working to bring Dinner Train to AnchorFest

Posted on May 14, 2013 at 7:39 pm

Centralia Regional Economic Development, Inc. and the Centralia Chamber of Commerce are working together to try and bring the Columbia Star Dinner Train to Centralia for AnchorFest. The idea, said Ginny Zoellers, director of the Centralia Chamber of Commerce, is to make an opportunity to show off Centralia and its attractions. The current proposed plan is for the train to come June 2 for the Sunday concerts and car show,

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  • Something old, something new for this year’s Centralia Anchor Festival

    Posted on April 23, 2013 at 5:03 pm

    Fans of at least one Centralia Anchor Festival tradition will be happy with this year’s annual party for 5,000 in downtown Centralia. The vintage soft-rock stylings of the Krazy Kats will be returning to the festival this year. They will be playing the Saturday night shift of the Anchor Fest. Other musical guests include Iron  Horse and Hazard County, both playing Friday night. Saturday morning, John Green takes the stage,

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  • Centralia Library campaigning for future

    Posted on March 19, 2013 at 4:00 pm

    Centralia Library hosts teen tech night

    The Centralia Public Library’s board of directors has decided to do what needs to be done in order to provide for the library’s future and availability of library services for Centralia’s future generations. They have unanimously decided to pursue a 25-cent operating levy increase for the library. They voted to do so during their March 12 board meeting. “We are making a plan of action and moving forward,” said Angie

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