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You don’t judge a book by its cover nor do you judge a wine by its price.
In more than 30 years of writing about wine, I have sampled some monumental stinkers that sold for more than …
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By Bennet Bodenstein, Contributing Columnist
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2/22/21
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Being trapped in your house as the entire region is turned into a blast chiller provides some learning opportunities, which is rather ironic since the weather forced Pettis County schools to shut …
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By Bob Satnan, Contributing Columnist
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2/20/21
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Every now and then an event occurs that typifies the age in which we live. We saw that in San Francisco recently, when the school board voted to rename 44 schools.
Among them were schools named …
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By Doug Kneibert, Contributing Columnist
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2/20/21
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We no longer need an alarm. Hue the Cat has a remarkably accurate body clock that goes off a little before 7 a.m. each morning. Still not accepting us as her “new” parents, she rises from …
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By Deborah Mitchell, Contributing Columnist
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2/20/21
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The emerging lesson of the 21st Century is that, try as we might, we will never exercise full control over nature. It is faster, stronger, and sneakier than we are. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, …
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By Liz Schleicher, Contributing Columnist
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2/20/21
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One sunflower stood taller than the rest, facing the other direction from the entire field, and glowing like the warm face of the sun.
Last September on a warm, sunny day, my family and I …
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The Black cemetery at Washington Avenue and Clay Street had only a few tombstones remaining when city employees cut overgrown brush from the property in 1933. Most of the graves had been moved in …
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By Rhonda Chalfant, Contributing Columnist
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2/17/21
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This cold weather has done a number on me and I am positive that I am not alone.
I live with some unfortunate circumstances as I have come to find that I possess junk DNA. I have …
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By Stephanie Lefevers, Contributing Columnist
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2/17/21
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One of my favorite news stories from the past week is a portrait in treating bad actors as petulant children, and I find that simply fantastic.
I picked up on the story because I get daily …
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By Bob Satnan, Contributing Columnist
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2/13/21
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As I began to write this piece, I found myself struggling with what subject to choose. There are so many to choose from, from politics to COVID-19, to pink pasta that I heard about on some news …
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By Jack Miller, Guest Columnist
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2/13/21
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I came home today. Well, technically, I came home eight years ago today. Please indulge my reminiscing about this old story; when one undergoes a life-altering experience, it isn’t easy to let …
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Hang on. We’re almost there.
Though the temperature huddles in the single digits now, in just a flick of the calendar, the state of Missouri will burst into song. Already, where we …
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By Liz Schleicher, Contributing Columnist
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2/13/21
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Valentine’s Day for me as a child was a day of dread. When I was going to school, Valentine’s Day (or a day thereabouts) was set up for us to have a school party, replete with balloons, …
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By Rob Ayers, Camp Branch Baptist Church
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2/12/21
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The abandoned cemetery at Washington Avenue and Clay Street was known throughout its neighborhood as a final resting place for African Americans who died in the years before 1883, when Glenwood …
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By Rhonda Chalfant, Contributing Columnist
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2/10/21
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If you’re reading this, chances are pretty good that you also read the police reports that appear in this publication.
Contained within those reports are the arrests that are made …
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Dr. Nichole Vansell’s interest in science blossomed late, but she has turned it into a career that is helping improve and save lives.
Vansell, a 1990 graduate of Smith-Cotton High School, …
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By Bob Satnan, Contributing Columnist
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2/7/21
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Many things are moving much slower these days due to the COVID crisis, and the makeover of the Trust Building is one of them.
I met with Brian Smith recently to get an update on how things are …
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By Doug Kneibert, Contributing Columnist
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2/7/21
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I’ve been smelling stale cigarette smoke for the past couple of weeks. This, of course, is my father’s telling me that the Super Bowl is coming up, and that I need to calm down so that I …
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By Deborah Mitchell, Contributing Columnist
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2/7/21
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I know this is a month later than most might prefer, but I thought I might try and tackle the New Year's resolutions from a slightly different perspective. The new year is a time of reflection on how …
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By Chris Traffanstedt, Chaplain at Tyson Foods Inc. Sedalia
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2/5/21
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During the mid-19th century, Sedalia had four cemeteries. Two were abandoned when newer cemeteries were established. Their histories provide an interesting story, but also raise many questions.
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By Rhonda Chalfant, Contributing Columnist
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2/3/21
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