Preschool Playgroup at The Speckled Frog Toys and Books
Monday, July 13, 2026
10:30 AM
Preschool activities will be available for our pre-K friends! We will have crafts and activities that reinforce their independence and…
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The Daily Rundown — Monday, July 13, 2026
Your five-minute catch-up for Monday, July 13. Here’s what matters on our stretch of the river this week. Roads & I-70 Nighttime I-70 closures near the Rocheport bridge are still…
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A New Front Door: Voluntary Action Center’s Opportunity Campus Fully Opens This Week
If you or a neighbor are ever in a hard spot, it helps to know exactly where the door is. This week, Columbia’s Voluntary Action…
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River Relief Turns 25 by Cleaning Our Stretch of the Missouri — Glasgow and Boonville Dates Set
Missouri River Relief is turning 25 this year, and the group is marking it the way you’d hope: with the biggest cleanup effort it has…
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The MR340 Paddles Past Our Bluffs This Month
If you’re out on the Katy Trail the last week of July and you see someone paddling past who looks like they haven’t slept in two days, they probably haven’t. The Missouri American Water MR340 — billed as the world’s longest nonstop river race —…
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MDC’s New 2026 Hunting Booklets Are Out, and the Antler-Point Rule Is Gone
If you hunt deer, turkey, or waterfowl anywhere near Rocheport, it’s worth a few minutes this weekend to look at the new…
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D.C. Rogers Recreation Area reopens in Fayette; Peters Lake still shut
D.C. Rogers Recreation Area in Fayette is back open, the City of Fayette said in a social media post Thursday, closing out…
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SEMA sets briefings for local governments hit by April storms — Howard County included
Howard County is one of ten counties covered by the federal disaster declaration for the April 23–28 storms, and SEMA is holding applicant briefings this…
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Family Sues Fayette Group Home Over Brother’s Death in January Fire
A lawsuit filed Tuesday, July 7, over a fatal fire at a Fayette group home alleges the building lacked basic fire safety protections that could…
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Amendment 4 puts rural Missouri at center of fight over ballot power
By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent Supporters of Amendment 4 say it would give rural Missouri a stronger voice. Antwann Rhodes says it would take one away. Rhodes lives in Waynesville, a Pulaski County town of about 5,600 just outside Fort Leonard Wood, where he settled…
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Halal, Arabic and French among the skills Kansas town honed to be good hosts to the Algerians
By Emma Noble, Missouri Independent LAWRENCE — Bidding for a spot as a host city seemed nearly impossible. Until it wasn’t. The University…
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Missouri’s ‘gray market’ gambling fight was never as gray as advertised
By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent Every good hustle needs a snappy name, and for a long time Missouri had a beauty: gray…
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Missouri homebuilders report dwindling business amid national housing slump
By Misbahul Haque, Missouri Independent The housing industry saw a sharp drop in construction starts nationwide in May, both compared with the previous month and…
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Democrats fight for attention in crowded Missouri Senate primary in St. Louis County
By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent Four Democrats are running to succeed state Sen. Brian Williams in North St. Louis County — and struggling to get…
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About Rocheport
Rocheport, MO — a historic river town of ~200 on the Missouri River bluffs. Home to Katy Trail trailhead, award-winning wineries, and a strong sense of community.
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Through the Bluff: The Rocheport Tunnel and the Pictographs It Erased
Just west of Rocheport, the Katy Trail does something it does nowhere else along its 240 miles: it goes straight into the bluff. For a…
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Andrew McAlester: The Rocheport Boy Who Built Missouri’s Medical School
Every good-sized town likes to claim a person who went out into the world and built something that lasted. Rocheport has a strong one, and…
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Blind Boone: The Ragtime Genius Who Made His Home Just Up the Road
Just up the road from Rocheport, in a two-story house on North Fourth Street in Columbia, one of the most remarkable musicians this country ever…
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The Big Bur Oak at McBaine: How to Visit Missouri’s Champion Tree
A couple miles northwest of McBaine, alone in a field with nothing else within a thousand feet of it, stands a tree old enough to…