Share A story in USA Today this morning about the fading of interesting American place names rang a bell with me. I’ve been a longtime grouch about real estate developers displacing homegrown American communities with fancy sounding, brand new towns with names like Saddlebrooke or Anthem and street names like Chantilly Lane and Venetian Way.

Spare me [...]

ShareOnline newspaper-magazine kiosk carries over 2,000 titles
Readers now have an additional online option for reading each monthly issue of River Hills Traveler magazine. Traveler is now available on PressDisplay.com, the world’s largest online newspaper kiosk, where you can browse and read hundreds of full content premium newspapers and magazines from around the world. Go to [...]

ShareOur annual directory of Missouri outdoor businesses, Mo-Go, short for Missouri Guides & Outfitters, is now available online in two formats and in print. (To learn how to get the printed Mo-Go mailed to you free, see the offer at the end of this article).

ONLINE OPTIONS
In addition to the traditional online format, allowing you to [...]

ShareA big thanks to the many Traveler readers who stopped by to say hi at the Let’s Go Fishing Show in Collinsville, IL. The three-day shop wrapped up today with great attendance despite unseasonably warm and sunny weather, when people could have been fishing instead of wishing.
It was one of the best shows for Traveler [...]

ShareIf St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley was trying to get the public’s attention, his 2012 budget plan to close 23 out 50 county parks and cut 175 jobs did the trick. In fact, he may have aroused a sleeping tiger.
Some 60 members of the public attended a County Council meeting in Clayton last night, [...]

ShareOf all the stories and pictures in this month’s Traveler, Alex Biehl’s piece on Page 15 rang my bell the loudest.
In one story, there’s despair, hope, nostalgia and common sense that can be applied to our everyday problems.
First, the despair. Vandals with a pipe wrench opened the floodgates at Noblett Lake this summer, draining the [...]

ShareI’m trying to get the word out that I have a new cell phone number. It’s 636-222-8714. This isn’t earth-shaking news, but the reasons are a little bit funny.
For the last two years, I’ve been getting calls and text messages for one Joseph Rodriquez, who apparently had my old number before me. Some calls came [...]

ShareWe said this last month but it bears repeating: the new, electronic version of Traveler does not affect or replace the hard copy you receive in your mailbox each month.
Several subscribers who received email notice of their e-Edition access called to tell us they want to keep getting the hard copy in the mail.
We’re always [...]

Share There are storm chasers and there are storm chasees. Put me in that second group. On my monthly newsstand route yesterday, I dodged tornados all the way from Eminence to St. Louis. I don’t care to ever see another twister — even in a picture.
It started at 4:35 a.m. when the storm siren [...]

ShareCall it “gigabytes meets gig a fish.” We’ve found a company, Dirxion, just up the road in Fenton that is helping us makeTraveler available to online readers with exactly the same look and feel as our printed product. As a demonstration, the June Float Trip issue is now available at no charge for anyone to [...]