Law firm asks Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner to investigate Union Pacific's bridge application.
Flood warning issued fo Petite Saline Creek until Saturday. Southeast Missourians are warned of increase in mosquito population.
A proposed regional agreement with the Moberly Area Economic Development Corporation would enable Boonville to continue a tradition of business growth, the president of the Boonville Industrial Development Authority said this week.
A Dollar General store expected to open this month in Boonville is one of 1,000 such stores to be built in the next year around the U.S.
Cooper and Howard counties collectively received nearly $800,000 in Missouri Lottery funding to be used toward education during the 2010 fiscal year, according to a new lottery website.
A tree fell at the foot of Oregon Trail in Boonville and humbled Dan Brewer. He had spent his whole in construction and had never been in an accident. It was late in the afternoon on Aug. 17 and he was clearing out trees and brush to facilitate a Missouri River view from one of his properties.
U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., visited Warm Springs Ranch near Boonville on Monday, speaking about his position on pullout dates for the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and discussing perceived anti-incumbent sentiment. Graves is seeking re-election to the 6th District this November.
The fee is $375 per couple and includes the Missouri Grazing Manual, other handouts, plus three lunches and two suppers. Enrollment is limited to 50, with advance registration required.
A Moberly economic development group has proposed teaming up with Cooper County and Boonville as part of a regional effort to retain and grow businesses, and attract new development in mid-Missouri. In a presentation to the Boonville City Council on Monday, President Corey Mehaffy of the Moberly Area Economic Development Corporation said the group wants to collaborate with additional rural communities with assets that are complementary to those in Randolph and Chariton counties, which the group now represents.
According to the results of the latest statewide seat belt survey, teen seat belt use is up to 66 percent from 61 percent.
Brian Lambert contacted Jennifer Durham in his efforts to connect the branches of a Weyland family tree in which he had no roots. His family name had not been changed or dropped. He just wasn’t related. Their communication was one piece of Lambert’s work that became a website chronicling the Boonville family’s history and a reunion last weekend in the city that joined relatives who had never met.
Boonville hosted the 2010 Missouri River Festival of the Arts this weekend. Check out a video of excerpts from the Friday performance, which included pianist Natasha Paremski and violinist David Halen. The performance lasted two hours and featured music composed by Johannes Brahms and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Morningland Dairy of Mountain View, Mo. is voluntarily recalling all products produced by the company since January 2010 due to reports of traces of Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus found in the company’s cheese products at a retail facility in California. The cheese is sold nationwide, including 23 retail outlets in Missouri. No illnesses related to this recall have been reported. The cheese samples were seized June 30 in California. Missouri officials were made aware of the California department’s test results Thursday.
Students in Donna Goff’s third-grade class at David Barton Elementary School in Boonville recently wrote about their favorite things. Here are some of their thoughts, as shared in the school’s newsletter.
Two men who admitted to burglarizing a fast-food restaurant in Boonville have been sentenced to federal prison for a series of armed bank robberies in Missouri.
New this year is the option to file a biennial (every two years) registration report. Any corporation incorporated in an even-numbered year may select this option for their 2010 report.
Representatives of the Moberly Area Economic Development Corporation are scheduled to speak with the Boonville City Council during a work session Monday.
People from as far away as North Carolina and Austin, Texas, flocked to Boonville to get a taste of the 35th Missouri River Festival of the Arts. The festival began Thursday and runs through Saturday.
Annissa and Ricky Taylor lived for more than a year with three children in a house so saddled with mold that one of the walls started caving in.
If Boonville residents Ruth and Charles Pepp hadn’t pressed suspicious callers for answers, the couple might have lost nearly $3,000.
