The Columbia Public School planetarium in RBHS played host to nearly 600 people Saturday, April 28, during its Astronomy Day celebrations. The facility exhibited planetarium shows, telescope clinics,...

Having been in service for 37 years — one year shy of RBHS’ age — the Columbia Public Schools planetarium, housed in RBHS, will receive equipment updates for the first time in years. With the help...

Senior Riaz Helfer spent his summer poring over hundreds of PDFs. The documents were tedious at best, but he trudged on, looking for papers that would meet the criteria of the professor he was interning...

As the school year begins the final four month stretch, three RBHS department chairs are spending their last days at the school as teachers. Social studies chair Bill Priest, art chair Sharyn Hyatt-Wade...

Though Gov. Jay Nixon publicized “record funding” in the state education budget in his Jan. 16 State of the State address, district officials aren’t impressed.   Columbia Public Schools Superintendent...

Universities in Missouri could become part of a new plan for higher education, which Gov. Jay Nixon outlined in his State of the State speech Jan. 16. He emphasized the need for colleges and universities...

Having already cut 260 jobs in the last four years and facing increasing financial strains due to the opening of a new high school, the Columbia Board of Education voted unanimously Jan. 9 to approve...

The year was 1988. The Los Angeles Dodgers had just won the World Series, Ronald Reagan was about to exit the White House as president and a shy programmer named Robert Morris was set to unleash a digital...