Best of luck from Columbus!

Best of luck and prayers for this noble undertaking from Hudson, WI, across the St Croix river from the Twin Cities, MN.
(I'll throw a snowball - or three or four - for Jackson, since we already have plenty of snow!)

I am curious, how many voices you are starting with? We are hoping to start something similar, but I am a bit nervous to do it with too few singers.

If you haven't already - contact Amanda Gulick at Holy Family in Dayton. You can find her contact info on their bulletin. Lady has a mad skill set.

A belated update to my answer to petrus_simplex: At our first meetings, we had about 20 voices. After about two rehearsals, COVID-19 struck, and all events were canceled. When the pan-panic ended and events resumed, about 6 singers (7 counting me) came back.

To my delighted astonishment, the I and the schola were invited to lead the music for First Friday Masses starting in Advent, 2020. This in a parish where the music is largely from Saints Marty and David and companions! The organist for First Fridays had resigned, and the priests took it as an opportunity to do something new and better.

One of our singers had been the cantor for First Fridays, with the previous organist, and she continued in that role with the schola. She later resigned from the schola, not in frustration, but to lead a new Bible study group; she could not find a meeting time for her new group that didn't conflict with our rehearsal time. After that I realized that I had been putting too much stress on one cantor (introit, responsorial psalm, alleluia, communion, and sometimes more) --- but two other singers volunteered to be cantors, and I did some myself. So we divided the cantor work up.

Subsequently, one singer has moved out of state, and one has resigned due to frustration. We are now down to three or four singers, including myself -- but we are all cantors now! Even our bass who has difficulty matching pitch has now improved so much that he is able to be cantor for the Alleluia.

Thanks, tomjaw! We will keep it up!

The Ohio was the first river I knew, growing up in Evansville, Indiana; and every "river" I've seen since then has seemed unimpressive! (To be fair to the Mississippi: I've seen it only in Minnesota, before it receives the waters from the Ohio.)

The online schola map couldn't be maintained, since we reached the data limit of the free map service that was used. (Later, IIRC, it closed altogether.) Besides, lists like this tend to become out of date quickly unless a team of volunteers is willing to confirm every so often that old entries are still valid.