ShareHere’s an item on a fellow we have always enjoyed visiting with at the Hannibal Welcome Center. It comes via the Missouri Division of Tourism e-newsletter. Hannibal’s loss will be Sikeston’s gain. — Emery
Bob Greenlee, supervisor of the Hannibal Welcome Center, retired on Feb. 1, 2011. Several
industry members and friends attended a January reception in [...]

ShareWe thought it was all over, but apparently not.
According to this story posted today on STLToday.com (St. Louis Post-Dispatch website) a lawsuit against one of its insurers for failure to pay in case of a catastrophic failure at the Taum Sauk pumped storage hydro plant in Reynolds Countwas thrown out of court in St. [...]

Shareby Jo Schaper
Sometimes my work life and my real life dovetail. Such was the case last Saturday, Oct. 9, in my hometown of Pacific, where I had a wonderful time following up on events which I learned of due to working for Traveler.
If you saw the September paper, (the festival issue) you may have [...]

ShareTraveler will have a booth at the ValleyPalooza Music Festival on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 18 at the Valley Park City Ball Park, 2nd Street and St. Louis Avenue. We are donating $5 from each new subscription sold to the beneficiary of the festival, Jason Hilderbrand and family. Jason is suffering from severe cerebral palsy.
There’s a [...]

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 [...]

ShareIn the first stack of mail which arrived at the Traveler office after Labor Day came two Readers Choice ballots, properly filled out and documented.

For three years now, Traveler has offered our readers the opportunity to praise people, places and businesses in our region, by nominating them in an annual ballot. Unlike a typical [...]

ShareThank heaven for geeky younger brothers.
Courtesy of Jo’s younger brother Dan, and via the Popular Mechanics website comes this news:
“Top 5 Engineering Projects in 2010
For fifty years, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has recognized the best infrastructure projects in the world with its annual Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA) award. ASCE [...]

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by Jo Schaper
My first grape harvest is in, and I ate the whole thing in one sitting. All five Concord grapes. I couldn’t be more pleased.
By August, serious farmers and side yard gardeners have one thing in common: they talk a lot about the weather and the prospects and results of the harvest.
Talking [...]

ShareUsually, Traveler Country news waits until after breakfast, but not so this morning. This news item wafted over the air while Jo was waking up:
EPA sued over Missouri streams.
The Coalition for the Environment, a St. Louis based environmental activist group, had been working with EPA and Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources to enact water [...]

ShareNow on permanent display in our Photo Gallery: 2010 Traveler Readers Choice winners. Check out this album for our readers picks of the best outdoor, places and people and businesses in Traveler  Country.
Ballots for the 2011 Traveler Readers Choice awards will be published in our September and October issues. Be sure to vote for your favorites [...]