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Alison Patton

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Nearly a year has passed since a Stephens College student was shot and killed in downtown Columbia, and the police department still doesn’t have a unit dedicated to downtown — an area that has become a flashpoint between the city government and University of Missouri leadership.  

“I believe there is much more that we need to do, given the number of incidents that we’ve seen,” University of Missouri President Mun Choi told ABC 17 News in a recent interview. 

Following 21-year-old Aiyanna Williams’ death on Broadway last September, Choi started pushing the city to get crime under control. One month later, MU and the city put out a joint list of actions to do just that. 

One of those points was to increase law enforcement downtown, and throughout the past year, the idea of reinstating the Columbia Police Department’s downtown unit has come up multiple times. 

However, in an April interview with ABC 17 News, CPD Chief Jill Schlude said that wasn’t going to be possible until at least the fall because of staffing, but extra officers have been assigned to patrol downtown. 

Schlude declined an interview for this story. City spokesperson Christopher Ave said Schlude declined out of respect for the Williams family. 

Ave said in an email that CPD had 163 sworn police officers as of early September, but that number fluctuates because of attrition rates. He also said CPD is understaffed by 23 positions.

Although eight people will start in the police academy at the end of September, Ave said, they won’t be ready to be on the streets for about 10 months.

Choi said he likes the idea of bringing back the dedicated downtown CPD unit, which Ave said was formed over 15 years ago. It was disbanded in 2019 because of staffing.

The key to reviving the unit could be in the public safety sales tax the Columbia voters approved in August. The 1% sales tax would take effect on Jan. 1, and the city would start to receive the revenue generated in March.

The tax is expected to bring in $38 million. Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe said the police department estimates hiring 50 more police officers over four years with that funding, along with an updated building and higher pay for police.

“This will allow us to have a sustainable funding stream in addition to what we’re already giving from the general fund to the police and fire department,” Buffaloe said.

Choi said he supports CPD and its efforts to increase downtown safety, but still pushes the city to do more.

“When I believe something is very important like this, I will continue to advocate for it. And I’ll ask all members of our community to help support more police, the need for more police in downtown,” Choi said.

Williams’ death sparked Choi’s public advocacy, but constant violence in one area of downtown pushes him to continue.

Following a large street brawl and a shots-fired call over the summer, Choi sent emails to the city again, asking city leaders to revoke the liquor license for Reign Bar–-the establishment he believes is the cause of the fights and crime in the section of East Walnut Street that intersects with Eighth through Tenth Streets. 

He also warned students to stay away from that area at night.

“It’s probably not the only establishment that has caused this type of situation, but it is a very prominent bar in that location, Ninth and Walnut, where these violent incidents are occurring,” Choi said. 

Buffaloe agreed that something needs to be done.

“We want to make sure that people are safe, and we know that once it gets like after midnight or closer to bars close, people have been drinking and there’s a lot of young people downtown, and we want to figure out ways that we can try to proactively message about that,” Buffaloe said.

She mentioned that CPD met with bar owners to establish a line of communication. Schlude said after the meeting that many of the bar owners expressed concerns about CPD staffing and people tailgating in their cars.

A manager at Reign Bar told ABC 17 News that he believes the people who are involved in violence near the bar aren’t patrons, and the problem is the people who stay outside with open containers.

Last fall, CPD ramped up its enforcement efforts downtown to try to reduce violence. Between August 2025 and 2026, CPD issued 11 open-container citations and made 41 arrests. CPD also cracked down on jaywalking, and since August 2025, the department has issued 54 citations and made 16 arrests.

MU brings over 30,000 students to Columbia, and Choi said he feels responsible for their safety. 

“There are sections of downtown that are dangerous that I wouldn’t want my family to go to. As well as, I am responsible for the safety of thousands of students that live in downtown, that work in downtown establishments and those that visit downtown during weekend hours and so forth,” Choi said.

Choi said there are a few things that could help increase public safety downtown, including adding more CPD police officers, providing them moral support, allowing CPD to collectively work with the University of Missouri Police Department and the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, and getting the Columbia City Council to pass an urban camping ordinance.

Choi sees some of the activities of homeless people downtown as a potential safety hazard for students and their families.

Columbia’s Downtown Improvement District has already submitted a letter asking the Columbia City Council to consider and research an urban camping ordinance. It was signed by nearly 80 businesses.

However, the District has pushed back against Choi for his focus on Reign Bar, saying any crime issues downtown should not be pinned on a particular business.

CID Executive Director Nickie Davis said an urban camping ordinance would provide clarity on what to do when a homeless individual is sleeping, blocking or using the space in front of a business.

“Everything seems to be unclear. So really, we are looking for a clarification of what is and isn’t enforceable. Are they being enforced already? And what can we do to make things a little bit more clear for everybody?” Davis said.

The letter was submitted to the council Aug. 17. However, council members haven’t taken action on the proposal or asked the city administration to conduct research.

“We know this is something our businesses need. They are struggling,” Davis said. “So, we will continue to work for that until city council can give us an answer one way or another and/or put in the time and research on what this could look like.”

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Melissa Houston

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

EDITOR’S NOTE: The story has been corrected to reflect that the person involved was not an MU student.

The University of Missouri said Thursday that it is investigating a person for comments made during a Turning Point USA “Pick up the Mic” session on Speakers Circle.

During the session Wednesday hosted by Shane Winnings, Chloe Carter came to the mic to discuss the First and Second Amendments.

“It is worth it to have a couple gun deaths every couple years to keep our Second Amendment right,” Carter said.

Winnings responded with “I agree.”

The conversation then moved to talk about Charlie Kirk when the person said that Charlie Kirk would have agreed and “died by his word.”

Winnings then said that Kirk died with the same mindset, calling it a conviction, and recommended the student “finds out what that means one day.”

Winnings asked if Carter was “for people being killed for freedom of speech.”

Carter responded with “yeah, absolutely.”

In a social media post, the university commented that it will investigate Carter and will “hold the individual to account.” An MU spokesperson later said that Carter is not a student and has been trespassed from campus.

Zach Greenberg, Director of faculty legal defense with the FIRE organization, said that the First Amendment protects any discussions of violence. The only time it does not, is when it falls into a category of true threat.

“The First Amendment protects, calls for violence, discussions of violence, even justifications for the moral propriety of violence,” said Greenberg. “It protects speech unless it falls into the narrow protected category of a true threat: the serious intent to commit unlawful violence, direct, imminent, specific.”

Greenberg said technically Carter’s comments did not violate the First Amendment; however, the university trespassing on Carter could be a violation of her First Amendment rights because it is a government state university.

“I think that’s a punishment that government inflicting for the exercise of someone’s free speech rights, so their student are not student you shouldn’t be punished for expressing yourself,” said Greenberg.

Carter could potentially take legal action against the university for being trespassed from a public campus, according to Greenberg.

“I think if the university were to say to ban the speaker from campus, you know, maybe a no-contact order, or a trespass order, it would be problematic if it’s based on the students’ or the speaker’s protected speech,” said Greenberg.

The university says the Columbia Police Department and FBI have been contacted, in addition to the University of Missouri Police Department.

“We denounce any form of violence, and it is totally unacceptable to wish harm upon a person for exercising their First Amendment rights. This is a very serious matter for which we’ve launched a full investigation. We will hold the individual to account,” the university stated in a social media post.

State Sen. Stephen Webber (D-Columbia) criticized Carter’s statements in an X post.

“This is deeply sick behavior (and so were the words). If you see someone acting like this at Mizzou (or anywhere) you should absolutely call them out for it,” Webber wrote.

Carter said that she knew she was taking a risk stepping up to the mic, but did not realize how far people would take the backlash.

“I didn’t expect the situation to get quite this large. I knew that what I was doing was provocative and that there would be some kind of backlash, but this has really caught on in right-wing social media,” said Carter. “Honestly, the worst part is that people are coming after everyone associated with me as well.”

Carter criticized the backlash, saying that right-wing media figures frequently talk about and celebrate violence, such as the death of George Floyd, Israel’s attacks in Palestine and shooting deaths tied to ICE agents.

“These are the people who were anti-cancel culture in the late 2010s and the people who are supposedly the strongest supporters of the first amendment, but you see them here calling for me to be expelled, fired, imprisoned, and even killed,” said Carter. “People often forget that the American right is an ideology based entirely off of the normalization of violence and oppression.”

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Demetra Alarcon

COLUMBIA, MO. (KMIZ)

Prosecutors have charged a man with first-degree terrorist threat and resisting arrest following a four-hour standoff on Wednesday.

Police identified the suspect as 34-year-old Christopher Dow of Columbia. Officers arrested Dow shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday at his home on Hidden Creek Court on a warrant for third-degree domestic assault.

According to a probable cause statement released by CPD, an officer made contact over the phone with Dow. Dow told officers that he was armed and that if any officers entered the residence, Dow would open fire.

The officer stated that Dow said he would shoot the gas line and blow up the house, “to kill himself and as many officers as he could,” said the probable cause statement.

The home is in a residential area, and school buses were dropping off children nearby during the standoff. Police escorted children to their homes from the bus stop.

According to the statement, Dow showed an officer during a video call that he was standing next to a gas water heater with two different handguns. Dow reportedly told the officer he “would blow up the house and kill everyone he could before he came out.”

According to the statement, there were approximately 20-30 officers at the scene. Officers cleared the street and evacuated nearby residents in fear that Dow would carry out his threats.

Dow did not leave the residence until officers deployed gas.

The statement says they believe Dow will not appear in court if he receives bond, writing that “Dow stated he would rather die than spend one night in jail,” according to the statement.

Dow remained in jail without bond on Thursday morning.

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Marie Moyer

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

University of Missouri students report drug use is “prevalent” among the student body as conversations surrounding college drug use grow following a death investigation at the University of Mississippi.

Two students at Ole Miss were found dead in their off-campus homes Monday. They were identified as 20-year-old Robert Strang from Atlanta and 18-year-old Aidan Hamilton from Colorado. Authorities reported that the unregulated drug kratom was found nearby, with student groups circulating warnings about a new fentanyl-like synthetic opioid called cychlorphine.

The University of Missouri Interfraternity Council later notified students about the risks of drug use in a Facebook post in support of the University of Mississippi Interfraternity Council.

“The Mizzou Interfraternity Council Stands with the Ole Miss Interfraternity Council, the University of Mississippi community, and everyone affected by the events that occurred in Oxford this weekend,” the Facebook post said. “We have a responsibility to look out for one another and to take seriously the risks that can come with unknown or counterfeit substances.”

Authorities in Mississippi are yet to say whether kratom and cychlorphine had a role in the deaths.

ABC 17 News spoke with around a dozen University of Missouri students, with around half reporting they have seen a culture of drug use at the school. One student even shared that a friend who began using while at the University of Missouri later died of a cocaine overdose after college.

“The main one is cocaine, and it’s is very prevalent within like off-campus, like when you’re out at a bar in the bathroom or something like that and people are either offering it to you or asking you for it,” the student said.

“Kratom is very popular I would say, around downtown with students,” another student said. “It used to be like 18+ and they don’t even check for that, so if you just walk into the store and look like somewhat young adult, they’ll just give it to you.”

Both students added that they have seen several smoke shops and convenience stores downtown continue to sell kratom and 7-OH despite recent state government crackdowns.

Cychlorphine has gained notoriety for being more than 10 times stronger than fentanyl and has been increasingly seen in domestic Midwest drug markets. It also has no smell or taste and does not appear on fentanyl test strips.

“There’s an increased risk of overdose from people that may be using those drugs,” Boone County Public Health and Human Services Public Health Information Specialist Austin Krohn said. “Important to note, Narcan still works, but it may require additional doses and maybe up to more than two that usually come in the packages.”

According to the City of Columbia, Narcan, which stops opioid overdoses, can be found 24/7 in distribution boxes across the city, including at the Columbia Fire stations, the local health department and the Activity & Recreation Center.

University of Missouri sophomores Neer Patel and Grady Wright are working to bring awareness to drug education and safety through the Atlas Health Equity Group. The group hopes to lead state initiatives on naloxone access and public health education, including handing out free boxes of naloxone on campus.

“I think as of yesterday, we gave out 3,500 units and then today we’re planning on giving out another 1000 units,” Wright said. “We want to keep 500 in storage so we can hand that out to the bigger Greek life around campus.”

The naloxone is supplied by the University of Missouri St. Louis Addiction Science Team.

“I think it’s a misconception of naloxone that people think if they have it, they’re considered drug users, but naloxone is not for yourself, because if you’re overdosing, then you’re not going to be able to use naloxone, it’s just in case something ever does happen,” Patel said.

Both students add that their work comes from their own experiences of seeing overdoses while living in Columbia and Kansas City.

“Last year I saw someone overdose outside of the student center, which was kind of crazy because it takes so long for EMT to respond even when they’re so close, so that kind of prompted me to kind of get on it more for sure,” Wright said.

According to the University, naloxone can be found at the Wellness Resource Center inside the Student Center.

Students ABC 17 News spoke to added that naloxone can be found in some dorm halls.

“You talk to one of the members there, they can get you in contact with one of the people there that is able to do big group orders of Narcan as well as single ones,” one student said.

“The Mizzou IFC encourages every member of our community to educate themselves about overdose prevention, know where to access Narcan, and take action when a fellow student or brother may be in danger,” the University of Missouri IFC said in its Facebook post.

Krohn adds that 911 should be on the line during an emergency scenario before naloxone is given and to follow instructions throughout the treatment.

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Ellyse Edwards

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Boone County’s 911 center switched its phone service provider from Brightspeed to AT&T on Wednesday, a week after a Brightspeed outage disrupted 911 service across Mid-Missouri.

Christie Davis with Boone County Joint Communications confirmed the switch Thursday. Boone County Joint Communications’ 911 service went offline Sept. 16 for several hours because of a Brightspeed disruption. During the outage, people who needed emergency assistance were directed to call 311.

The Boone County Office of Emergency Management said the disruption affected 911 centers across Missouri but was concentrated in Mid-Missouri. Boone County announced shortly before 5 p.m. that service had been restored.

Jefferson City and Cole County were also affected by the outage. Jefferson City police said 911 calls continued to come in but had to be rerouted. Service was restored after about four hours.

Jefferson City Police Lt. Curtis Finke said there was no disruption or delay in emergency services during the outage.

The outage happened as Jefferson City works toward modernizing its 911 infrastructure.

In March, the Jefferson City Council tabled a proposal to replace the police department’s older copper-based call-delivery system with a next-generation emergency services internet protocol network, also known as ESInet.

City documents said the newer system would support voice calls, texts and other emergency data while improving call routing. The proposal also included renewing the city’s five-year contract with Intrado for 911 call-handling services and upgrading the system’s hardware.

The project was estimated to cost $458,351 over five years.

Davis said Boone County’s transition took close to two years. The county entered into its contract about one year ago, and implementation took approximately nine months.

The transition was originally scheduled for July but was delayed while the county waited for additional equipment. Davis said previous outages were one factor in the decision, but the change also prepares the county for future Next Generation 911 features.

Under the new system, 911 calls are delivered through AT&T’s secure emergency services internet protocol network instead of the older CAMA trunks and copper lines. Brightspeed remains involved by providing the last-mile fiber connection. Boone County also added a wireless FirstNet connection as another backup if the fiber service fails.

Davis said Boone County’s previous system had one point of failure along the route from Jefferson City. The new system provides additional paths for incoming calls and allows the center to reroute calls to its administrative lines more quickly.

During the Sept. 16 outage, Davis said calls that did not reach the 911 center still appeared in RapidSOS, a mapping system used by dispatchers. That allowed telecommunicators to see where calls originated and return them using phone lines that were still working.

Davis said Boone County could not determine exactly how many emergency calls were affected because the calls were routed through administrative lines, which prevented the center from collecting its usual statistics.

Jefferson City Police Capt. Chad Stieferman said the city is still receiving 911 calls through Brightspeed’s analog CAMA trunks. The city has signed a contract with AT&T for a Next Generation 911 core and anticipates placing the system into service in April.

During last week’s outage, Jefferson City’s 911 calls rolled over to administrative lines. Stieferman said everyone was still able to reach the center, but dispatchers received emergency and nonemergency calls on the same lines and had to determine which calls needed immediate attention.

Stieferman said the AT&T system will use multiple data paths and redundant data centers instead of relying on the single point of failure in the current system. He said the newer infrastructure cannot guarantee that an outage will never happen, but it should reduce the risk of one failure disrupting call delivery.

Jefferson City is also completing a separate hardware refresh for its call-answering equipment. Stieferman said that project includes new servers and workstations through a five-year agreement with Intrado.

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Gabrielle Teiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A former Columbia man detained by ICE in Chicago after a trip to Europe last year shared a glimpse this week of his new life one year later.

Blue Note and Rose Music Hall’s former head of security, Owen Ramsingh, was detained at O’Hare Airport in Chicago in September 2025 after returning from visiting family in the Netherlands.

Ramsingh posted on Facebook Wednesday, saying that he and his wife have obtained residency in Mexico and that he got his driver’s license. Their daughter is expected to visit in November.

He wrote that his mental health is still bad some days due to PTSD from his time in detention.

“I have a wonderful doctor here that is helping,” Ramsingh wrote. “It’s hard not being able to work after so many years of working multiple jobs at once and always being busy but I take early morning sunrise bike rides to the beach to clear my mind.”

He was detained because of a drug conviction in 1998, when he was 17 years old, according to court records obtained by ABC 17 News. Ramsingh was transferred at least once and spent his detention time at a facility in El Paso, Texas.

A New Mexico immigration judge ordered Ramsingh to be deported for life last December. Ramsingh lived in the Netherlands as a child and was deported back to the Netherlands in February.

Before his deportation, Ramsingh had lived in the U.S. since he was a child. He was issued a green card as a child of a U.S. citizen in 1986.

Ramsingh wrote that an album release is coming, sharing his experience from his time being detained.

“Anyone that knows me well, knows life has not been easy since childhood. Thank you again for all of the support. We miss everyone! Continue to pray for my family as this becomes a new normal. I will continue to fight the fight and will never give up,” Ramsingh wrote.

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Jazsmin Halliburton

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

The Columbia Board of Education held a work session Thursday morning to discuss lottery school updates and the potential addition of a “health science high school.”

According to the meeting agenda, lottery schools are specialized schools that admit students through a random drawing. CPS lottery schools feature specialized instruction areas such as STEM, STEAM, multi-grade learning, health care, art and agriculture.

Ridgeway Elementary was the first CPS lottery school, introduced in 2012. CPS has since added Benton, Locust, Jefferson and Two Mile Prairie.

In Thursday’s Lottery School Update, the board discussed the health science high school that would collaborate with MU Health. Starting in ninth grade, students would work with MU Health, take classes in clinic settings, and focus on learning about health care experiences. Learning opportunities would also include an introduction to health care pathways, simulation labs, and hands-on learning, including internships in their junior and senior years.

The school could open as soon as the 2027-2028 school year.

CPS board member Dr. Helen Porter told ABC 17 News that there are classes at the Career Center, especially for Certified Nursing Assistants, but they are always full. we kind of recognized that we had an opportunity here to get more students in those classes. “[Students] were obviously wanting them,” said Porter. “There’s a waitlist to get in. And so what a great opportunity for us to a help our students find that very profitable career.”

Porter also said that MU Health can benefit from the partnership by recruiting students, giving them an employment opportunity.

“This isn’t necessarily for kids who want to be doctors or nurses,” Porter said. “Of course, we value those careers, but these are for very technical, skilled, and certified members who want to be phlebotomist or, pharmacy techs, or CNAs. And so it’s that level of employment that health care is really struggling to fill right now. And I think all hospitals are.”

The health science high school is in phase two of planning, using surveys and focus groups with eighth-grade students and parents. When surveys with parents, students and staff are complete, applications to the lottery school will be open.

The school’s location has not yet been announced.

West Middle School was announced as the next CPS lottery school to become a fine arts academy starting the 2027-2028 school year.

“They are really set up well to be a strong fine arts middle school,” Porter told ABC 17 News. “They’ll still have all of the regular curriculum, just like we have at Jefferson [Middle School]. But that opportunity for students and families to really embark in a fine arts journey or career is going to be there.”

CPS hopes to have applications for West Middle School available by the end of October.

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Melissa Houston

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Columbia’s Downtown Community Improvement District issued a statement Wednesday criticizing officials who have labeled a downtown bar a “public nuisance.”

The statement was issued in response to a letter from Attorney General Catherine Hanaway sent to Reign Bar between Walnut and Ninth Street, addressing the “nuisance conditions.”

Downtown CID Director Nickie Davis said in a statement that the District takes “public safety seriously,” but does not support placing the blame on one bar.

“The District does not support singling out or assigning responsibility to an individual business without clear evidence demonstrating that the business itself is responsible for the activity in question,” Davis said in the email.

Davis said Reign Bar has continued to be in communication with The District, law enforcement, and community members about the safety concerns for Ninth and Walnut Street.

Greg Wolff, a part-owner of the Reign Bar building for the past 10 years, said he has seen violence in downtown Columbia long before Reign Bar opened their doors.

“I could say with some factual data that, yeah, this did not just start with Reign Bar; this has been going on for- I’m just going to throw out a ballpark of at least three years,” said Wolff.

Wolff said he spoke with Reign Bar owners before he signed with them and emphasizes running their establishment in a safe manner to the community, and so far he has not seen them stray from that.

“We felt like ,this , the things they were saying they were going to do with their security and their business plan, we felt comfortable with, and we haven’t seen much deviation from what they told us they were going to do,” said Wolff. “We have not had anybody call it missing from the police departments, our community leaders saying, ‘ What the heck’s going on here? ‘We need to deal with this.'”

The safety concerns tend to happen outside of businesses in public spaces like the sidewalks or streets, according to Davis. And Davis wrote that business owners have limited authority to control the actions that happen outside of their businesses.

Downtown businesses are responsible for operating their businesses in a safe manner, according to Davis. And she wrote that individuals who participate in violent behavior downtown should be held accountable for their actions.

“Violence anywhere in Downtown Columbia is unacceptable,” wrote Davis. “At the same time, we must be careful not to confuse proximity for causation when determining responsibility.”

Wolff said he is grateful that state leaders are taking notice to the issues of Downtown Safety, but the blame is misdirected.

“I’ll be really excited to have a safer downtown where we don’t have this type of stuff happening at all. I just think the fingers being pointed in the wrong direction, as far as the root cause,” said Wolf.

The District will continue to support Reign Bar and continue to look at “verified information” that leads to contributions to the public safety concerns of downtown.

Davis invited Hanaway, Gov. Mike Kehoe, and other state leaders to come to downtown Columbia to meet with business owners, community members, and law enforcement to discuss public safety concerns.

A press release attributed to Councilwomen Valerie Carroll (Ward 1), Jacque Sample (Ward 3) and Sharon Jones (Ward 4) asks the AG’s office to meet with city officials.

“We believe this work should include sharing information on local investigations and resources. To that end, we are asking the Attorney General’s Office to meet with City leaders to coordinate efforts regarding public safety in the Walnut/9th Street area,” the joint press release says.

Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe posted a statement on social media saying she agreed with her colleagues in City Council and the District. She stated that she is concerned about the demands from Attorney General Hanaway regarding Reign Bar without notifying or collaborating with the City first.

University of Missouri President Mun Choi warned students at the start of the semester to stay away from the part of downtown where Reign is located, citing a street brawl that resulted in seven arrests and other incidents.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Jefferson City will get $10 million in financial assistance from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources for upgrades to its wastewater collection system, a Wednesday press release from the DNR says.

The release says the city expects the funding to cover the entire project.

“The completed project is expected to reduce sanitary sewer overflows by increasing capacity to handle peak flow events,” the release says. “The improvements will extend the wastewater system’s life and efficiency so it can continue serving the city well into the future.”

Funding comes from a $10 million loan through the DNR’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund. The DNR expects it to save the city $4.2 million in low-interest over 20 years.

The project is expected to be completed by August 2027.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A portion of the westbound lane of Cherry Street in downtown Columbia will be closed on Thursday, the city announced in a Wednesday press release.

The street and north sidewalk between Eight and Ninth streets will close at 7 a.m. as a crane will be used to “to lift a rooftop air conditioning unit onto 29 S. Ninth St.,” the release says.

Work is expected to be completed by 1 p.m.

Detour and no-parking signs will be posted.

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