Bearing News

Roll carts roll out in Columbia

Ava Beary, Staff Writer • May 1, 2024

Beginning in March, Columbia’s solid waste collection transitioned to the use of rolling refuse carts and automated collection trucks for residential curbside trash pickup. Ordinance amendments that...

on spring break

Zay Yontz, Features Editor • March 25, 2022

As spring break approaches, students wrap up school and prepare for the week ahead of them. Whether they are staying at home, traveling or resting from their past weeks of school, students are excited...

City Council discusses COVID-19, community stakeholders, chokeholds

Shruti Gautam • October 31, 2020

The City Council held a regular meeting in the Council Chamber at City Hall on Oct. 19. The session required social distancing and other accommodations in order to be compliant with COVID-19 restrictions,...

Black Lives Matter movement prompts action, reflection among students, staff

Vivian Spear • September 30, 2020

Over the 6 month course of quarantine and online school, major media news sources like CBS, Fox News and CNN have put a majority of the focus on amplifying many voices of the Black Lives Matter movement...

Day 141

Bailey Stover • August 5, 2020

During her 141st day of social distancing, recent RBHS graduate Bailey Stover visited the MU campus, got a new debit card and applied for a credit card.

Day 58

Bailey Stover • May 14, 2020

During her 58th day of social distancing, senior Bailey Stover thought her house was on fire, had two Zoom meetings and spent time with her family.

4 photographers, 1 model: Competition enhances creativity, inspires versatility

Multiple Authors • April 15, 2020

Photographers Camryn DeVore, Parker Boone, Sophia Eaton and Ana Manzano participated in a four photographers, one model competition to hone their skills.

Day 20

Bailey Stover • April 6, 2020

Senior Bailey Stover spent her 20th day of social distancing adjusting to her new reality after receiving an email about CPS' updated grading policy.

Day 18

Bailey Stover • April 4, 2020

Senior Bailey Stover made more banana bread, watched "Criminal Minds" and sorted Tupperware during her free time on her eighteenth day of social distancing.

Humans of T/F: Ann Smart

Sophia Eaton • March 6, 2020

Ann Smart attended the jubilee and shared a little bit about her experiences so far and what she's looking forward to in this year's first "Humans fo T/F."

Understanding of COVID-19 outbreak varies

Multiple Authors • March 6, 2020

In light of the COVID-19 outbreak and spread to the U.S., students offer their thoughts and express a lack of knowledge regaridng the virus.

People need people

Bailey Stover • January 8, 2020

For two million years, humans have interacted with and needed one another to survive. Through physical stability in the past and emotional satisfaction in the present, the necessity of human interaction and familiarity throughout one’s life is imperative to his or her success. Humans may mold the world around them and build it up as their own, but their environments shape them in return.