SharePart of Jo’s husband’s job means he travels all over the state. He’s rarely without a camera, (and just figured out how to use the camera on his cell phone for when that happens.)
A couple weeks ago life took him to Big Lake State Park. If you usually stay on the eastern or southern [...]

ShareWith the Birds Point Levee being rebuilt on the Mississippi and flood recovery efforts underway in northwest Missouri, Senator Roy Blunt, backed by Senator Claire McCaskill are reevaluating the way the Army Corps of Engineers is spending its money.According to this article on STL Today, Blunt is attempting to transfer $50 million dollars of money [...]

Share(News release from the governor’s office.)
JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Jay Nixon today committed $2 million in public infrastructure assistance funds to continue work in several places in Mississippi County impacted by the intentional breach of the Birds Point levee by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in May. The funding fulfills a pledge the Governor [...]

ShareThe Missouri Dept. of Transportation will hold a public meeting at the Bill Emerson Army Corps Visitor’s Center September 29 from 4-6 p.m. seeking comment on five options for the restoration/rerouting of T Highway below Wappapello Dam.
The highway, fiberoptic and water lines were destroyed in the overtopping of the spillway May 1. Water continued to [...]

ShareTraveler readers are nothing if not observant, so we weren’t too surprised when Neal Mansfield of Dudley in Stoddard County called, wondering about his missing squirrels.
By Jo Schaper
“I’ve been noticing there haven’t been many squirrels around this year,” Mansfield said. “They’re not even eating my corn. Can you find out what’s going on?”
Mr. Mansfield [...]

ShareWhile tweeting the bulk of stories on Tuesday, I ran into this audio clip on Twitter of Bill Bryan talking with Bob Priddy of Missourinet. The clip is at the bottom of the linked webpage.
http://www.missourinet.com/2011/08/31/se-missouri-park-historic-site-reopening-audio/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MissouriNews+%28Missourinet+News%29

ShareA few months ago, Jo attempted to give a play by play of the swollen Mississippi and southeast Missouri rivers as our region suffered. The geographic location has shifted northwestward, but the suffering is the same. Mercifully, the Missouri below Kansas City has been spared what the Nebraska-Iowa-Kansas Tri-State region is enduring. These photos and [...]

Share(The Clearwater Dam Corps sends some water safety tips to heed relevant to conditions after the recent flooding.)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 30 – Sunshine, a trip to the lake or river and fireworks displays. The Independence Day holiday is a great time for water fun, but Army Corps of Engineers officials advise everyone [...]

ShareAccording to the Associated Press in this story from BSD.com, the Army Corps of Engineers said that the Mississippi had finally quit flowing into the breached levee at Birds Point, Missouri.
Earlier in the week, Governor Jay Nixon told the Corps that Missouri was willing to assist financially with the rebuild of the levee. A decision [...]

ShareWhen the river floods, and you want to paddle, ya do what ya gotta do.
The organizers of the Missouri River 340 have had to shorten and move the race upstream in order to hold it at all.
By Jo Schaper
Regretfully, that means to Kansas. The race, which has started from Kaw Point in [...]