Students can learn about 19th century life at the Home School Days event in Arrow Rock on Wednesday, May 21. Sponsored by the Friends of Arrow Rock and the Arrow Rock State Historic Site, the event will run from 9 a.m. to noon and is open to home-school families.

 Helen Vieth will celebrate her 100th birthday on May 16. Friends are invited to celebrate with the family on Saturday.

Mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and a grandfather came to Pilot Grove Friday afternoon to be honored by their children and grandchildren during the annual Mother’s Day Tea presented by Pilot Grove Preschoolers in the Pilot Grove C-4 Commons.

Three locks in the Hannibal region — at Canton, Quincy and Saverton — were shut down for up to 10 days, but reopened last week after flooding receded.

The Central Missouri Food Bank finds itself between a rock and a hard place these days. On one hand the charitable food network, locally serving As The River Flows Pantry, Neighbor Helping Neighbor Food Pantry, Harvest House and Milestones Daycare in Cooper County, is inundated with people needing food assistance.

Bob Davis write about his father Matthew Cary Davis, known in Boonville first as M.C. and then as Matt.