Vacation Bible School---It’s Never Over   The church where I serve as interim pastor just completed Vacation Bible School. It is the first one...

It’s been so nice to travel the district talking to so many people this season, and attending parades that will continue throughout the remainder...

By Kathy Nickerson We are enjoying a new service in the Heartland community. C&R Landscaping employs gentlemen who are taking part in the Men’s Recovery Center, and they...

I know most of you know that our counties are eligible for drought disaster assistance. I am not going to rehash those programs today but please note that they have...

​On July 13th, Cardinal Kids United (Against-Redistricting) reported that if redistricting is passed by voters on August 7th, that 16 certified...

Conservative outsider, businesswoman, Christian, wife, mother and grandmother, Cindy O'Laughlin from Shelbina, Missouri, defeated three seasoned...

I contacted all Republican Candidates for the Missouri 18th District State Senate Race (there is only one Democrat running). Those Republican...

Personal bills paid with public funds… bank documents and official minutes falsified… more than $60,000 in taxpayer money missing. The plot of a TV...

by Wim Laven A recent look at the GOP’s platform on immigration was quite heartbreaking; they want to break up and damage good families. I thought about the people I know,...

July 18. 2018 Dear editor, I had the pleasure of visiting Macon County last weekend. I attended the Macon County fair, shopped at the Country...

Dining outside is one way to spend more time outdoors. In centuries past, humans spent much of their time in nature, hunting, foraging and living...

The swine show was held on Thursday of the Macon County Town & Country Fair. Photos by Sheryl Hatch

On August 14, 2018 at approximately 3:57 a.m, a Macon County Deputy conducted a traffic stop on a pickup truck in Bevier, Mo. During the stop, a male subject exited the...

The Bevier Homecoming Parade was held as usual on Saturday at 1 pm during Homecoming weekend. There were several entries in the parade such as...

Margaret Ellen Leckbee Blodgett Kinard was born on a farm in Knox County, near Novelty, Missouri, the daughter of Edgar and Iva (McEvoy) Leckbee....

Mida Esther Hanson-Dowell (Pippin), 95, passed away in the home of her daughter, Shirley Thompson, in Brookfield, Missouri, on Wednesday, August 1,...

Donald Lee "Doc" McCollum, of Milan, MO, passed away on his 93rd birthday, August 10, 2018, at Boone Hospital Center, Columbia, MO. The only child...

WASHINGTON (August 2, 2018) — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway...

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