Gumbo Bottoms, A Big Muddy Musical, sponsored by Boonville’s own Turner Hall River Rats for the Arts, will be touring to the Miller Performing Arts Center as part of the Jefferson City Community Concert Association’s summer offerings.

A Boonville MO Lottery Team was named team of the month for July.

Some say it won’t get here soon enough and some say it never should have come at all; but everyone can agree on one thing. It’s here.

A boy was injured when the bicycle he was on was struck by a vehicle Sunday morning.

Family Fun Day was held on Sunday as part of the Heritage Days festivities.

Every year, the Boonville Police Department accumulates bicycles that are found on property of residents who have no knowledge of the bikes or the bikes are recovered through some other means and are never claimed. The result is a cache of bikes that cannot be held indefinitely.

The Ashby-Hodge Gallery of American Art at Central Methodist University has selected its Board of Directors for the 2009-10 academic year, announced Gallery Curator Joseph E. Geist.

The Curly Joe Harper Blues Band takes the lead at the Blues Jams Thursday, July 2 from 8 TO 11 p.m. in Turner Hall, 518 Vine Street, Boonville. Admission is $6.

A downtown building is getting a facelift and one Boonville business is getting a new home. Breadeaux Pizza is moving to the former Benson Lumber Company building.

Identity and how identities will live on was the topic of John Hopkins’ speech to the Boonville High Schools Alumni Association on Saturday evening.

The Missouri State Water Patrol says a 33-year-old northwest Missouri man has drowned while swimming at the Lake of the Ozarks

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has announced an estimated mid-September completion date of the Missouri River Bridge at Glasgow. MoDOT also guarantees the ferry service will continue operation until the bridge is open to traffic; and the service will be free of charge to all motorists beginning Tuesday, Aug. 4.

The Mid-Missouri Solid Waste Management District H held its annual Executive Board election Wednesday, June 17, 2009. M.L. Cauthon of Boonville was named chair of the executive board.

The Boonslick Shriners made an impressive showing in the Heritage Days parade with numerous entries of all sorts.

The morning manager of the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant on Hwy. B arrived for work on Saturday morning to find thieves had been to work before he got there.