ShareI had plenty of opportunity to experience southeast Missouri’s extreme weather on Tuesday and Wednesday on my monthly newsstand/ad sales route. Photos from Van Buren, Poplar Bluff, Lake Wappapello, Sam A. Baker State Park, Clearwater Lake, Black River, Bellview Valley and Valley Park are posted below. Pictures of the Big River and Jacks Fork were [...]

ShareThanks for the letters. Thoughtful comments from readers are an editor’s most prized reward.
There is so much indifference, inattention and information overload in the world, that a person in this business wonders sometimes if you’re being heard above the noise.
When you get a crop of insightful letters to the editor like we have in this [...]

ShareThe two things about Traveler we hear most when talking to readers at sports shows and when you call or come by the office: 1. You like the maps. 2. You appreciate Traveler’s focus on Missouri topics.
Those two touchstones of Traveler are more important than ever as we enter this travel and outdoor season. [...]

ShareTraveler’s first Holiday Open House was a cross between a cookie walk and a hootenanny. It was so much fun I’m not sure we can wait another year to do it again.
Jo Schaper had remarked earlier in the week “It’s a little hard to prepare when we’ve invited the known universe.” The whole universe didn’t [...]