ShareBluff City Beer, Subway lend a hand
The third annual Castor River clean-up has secured corporate sponsorship from Bluff City Beer Co. and Subway Restaurants. These companies have offered to provide volunteers with food and refreshments on the day of the clean-up.
he clean-up will take place on Sunday, March 25. Volunteers will meet at the [...]

Share (Asst. Ed. note: This story appeared in the February Traveler and is reposted here with permission of the author, Gary L. Arnold. Mr. Arnold worked 3 1/2 years on the Mississippi River, and we thought his story so fascinating it deserved a wider audience.)
By Gary L. Arnold
Missourians and residents of neighboring [...]

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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 [...]

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On Friday April 29, 340 cavers from all over the Midwest started pouring into the Shriner’s campground in Buckhorn, near Waynesville. These conservationists looked forward to visiting with friends and partaking in out of doors experiences with each other.
On Saturday, several of the cavers decided to float an upper section of the Roubidoux [...]

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 [...]

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Share(With the constant media blitz the last few days about some fellow inciting political strife based on religion, when this story showed up in our exchange copy of the Reynolds County Courier, I felt compelled to summarize and pass it along. I’m not a member of any of the denominations, and nothing in it is [...]

ShareTraveler has been sitting on this story for several weeks now. Finally, we obtained the critical piece needed to make it a go. A map.

I’ve been going down to the Riverways since 1969, or as I like to tell people, since Alley Spring was a state park. There is a late 60s-era sliced log plaque [...]

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Jo Schaper
Sometimes being high on a Google search isn’t a good thing.
If you Google E. coli (Escherichia coli—a bacterium common in the guts of warm blooded mammals, but also present in fish and reptiles) as I did on 7/27/10, the fourth link on the list is the Missouri state park system.
The Missouri [...]