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The Trail State: A New Documentary on the Katy Trail
October 21, 2026
The Trail State, a new feature documentary about the Katy Trail from the nonprofit Magnificent Missouri, has been screening around the state this fall, and its trailer is below. Read the full story
Rocheport Museum Set to Open in Spring 2027, Friends Say
October 21, 2026
Rocheport Live! Weekend: Who Plays Where and Other Events, Oct. 23-25
October 21, 2026
Rocheport Seeks Trash Bids as County Recycling Stays Shut
October 21, 2026
A map of more than fifty Missouri trails
The trail map covers the Katy Trail and more than fifty other trails and greenways across Missouri. Pick one from the list to see its whole route.
Weather, river & moon in full The gauge, charted Refreshed hourly. Weather from the National Weather Service, river from NOAA gauge BOZM7 at Boonville; the moon is arithmetic.
Grain Oct. 22 · Hogs Oct. 20 · Cattle Oct. 17. Source: USDA Market News.
- Kaw Point to St. Charles, mile by mile — Part 6: Cooper’s Landing to Jefferson City Below Cooper’s Landing the course leaves this paper’s stretch of the Missouri River and does not…
- Arrow Rock: A Whole Town Frozen in Frontier Time If you’ve ever driven the Katy Trail out past Rocheport and wondered what’s further up the…
- Shirahaze Gallery and Rocheport’s Art Scene: A Town That Takes Art Seriously About 250 residents, five working galleries and studios — Shirahaze, Manitou Studio, Art Off the Trail, Art…
- Rocheport Live! Around Rocheport Sat Oct 24
- Daniel Boone Library Bookmobile 3 p.m., 205 Central St., Rocheport Thu Oct 22
- Locals Night 4 p.m., Katy's Fork in the Trail, 202 Central St., Rocheport Thu Oct 22
- Laird Vineyard Tasting 5:30 p.m., The Rocheport Winery at Mount Nebo Inn, 801 First St., Rocheport Fri Oct 23
- Sam Luetkemeyer Trio at the Tasting Room 6 p.m., Les Bourgeois Vineyards Tasting Room, Rocheport Fri Oct 23
- Chili, Ham & Bean and Hot Dog Dinner 11 a.m., Rocheport Fire Station Sat Oct 24
- Rocheport Live! Reader’s Roper Romp 11 a.m., The Bookmobile, between Meriwether Cafe and The Rocheport Winery at Mount Nebo, 801 1st St., Rocheport Sat Oct 24
- Rocheport Live! @ Meriwether Cafe 11 a.m., Meriwether Cafe and Bike Shop, 700 1st St., Rocheport Sat Oct 24
Veterans United’s Holiday Lights Show Returns to Columbia
October 22
Columbia’s Veterans United Home Loans is lighting up its headquarters driveway again this December, a year after saying the free show was done for good. Bright Lights/Holiday Nights, the drive-thru light show at Veterans United’s campus, will run Dec. Read the full story
Columbia Adds Second Glass Recycling Drop-Off Site
Columbia has added a second free spot to recycle glass, giving Boone County residents — including Rocheport-area households who’ve had nowhere to take glass…
Boone, Howard, Cooper Farms Can Seek $200,000 Ag Grants
Farmers and small food businesses in Boone, Howard and Cooper counties can now apply for state grants of up to $200,000 each, and the…
Southern Boone Schools Step Up Door Security
Southern Boone’s school board spent a good chunk of its October meeting on something simple and easy to overlook: keeping exterior doors shut and…
The Vacant Lot
By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · Part 1 of 4When it became generally known in Townsend Centre that the Townsends were going to move to the city, there was great excitement and dismay. For the Townsends to move was about equivalent to the town’s moving. The Townsend ancestors had founded the village a hundred years ago.
The Vacant Lot
By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · Part 2 of 4“Who?” cried Mrs. Townsend, rousing to indignation, for already she had assumed a proprietorship in the vacant lot. “Is it the folks in the next house?
The Vacant Lot
By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · Part 3 of 4That afternoon things went on as usual in the household until nearly four o’clock. Adrianna went downtown to do some shopping. Mrs.
The Vacant Lot
By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · Part 4 of 4Mr. Townsend rushed out of the room. “I daresay it’ll be gone when he gets there,” began George, then he stared round the room.
A Secret Society
By Richard MiddletonNow that the Houndsditch affair has been laid aside by the man in the street and it is once more possible for a bearded Englishman to tread the pavements of London without reproach, I may perhaps venture to give some account of a secret society with which I have been intimately connected, without earning the reputation of a monger of sensations.
The Tragedy of Oliver Bowman
By E. F. Benson · Part 1 of 4Oliver Bowman was sitting opposite his sister after dinner, watching her cracking walnuts in her strong, firm hands. The wonder of it never failed: she put two walnuts in her palms, pressed her hands together as if in silent prayer, and then there was a great crash and pieces of walnut-shell flew about the table.
The Tragedy of Oliver Bowman
By E. F. Benson · Part 2 of 4To-night it seemed to him that the habits and instincts of years came about him in crowds, asking him to classify them and construct a definite theory about them for use in practical life, and suddenly, in a flash of illumination, he saw the cohering principle on which he had acted so long without consciously formulating it.
The Tragedy of Oliver Bowman
By E. F. Benson · Part 3 of 4Then, even while Oliver was hesitating between the Archduke Francis and Prince Ignatius, he would catch sight of a flower-seller by the fountain in Piccadilly Circus, and straightway he would be in the country of his petit point again, where lambs were white and lakes blue; or the sight of…
The Tragedy of Oliver Bowman
By E. F. Benson · Part 4 of 4After that miserable adventure he resolved to have no more to do with the serious or emotional side of life, and in the words of one of our modern bards “he held it best in living to take all things very lightly.
- For Sale Les Creuset cookware (Oyster gray) & steamer – $250 Oct 15
Today’s Business Spotlight
Noble Strings Claimed
A violin and viola boutique offering custom instrument creation, setup, repairs, and services for stringed instruments.
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- The Mini A five-by-five crossword.
- The Crossing FIRE to WOOD in 4 moves. No. 11
- Four Corners Sixteen words, four groups.
- Letterpress Seven letters. How many words?
- The Weekly Quiz Five questions on the town and river.
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- Katy Trail map Plan a ride or walk on the 240-mile trail, leg by leg at your pace.
- MR340 race map Follow the 340-mile Missouri River paddle race live in race week, or replay past years.
- Tonight’s Sky The planets, the Moon and the bright stars over Rocheport.