Signature Chefs rally to baby’s aid

Nancy Masterson, Ha Ha Tonka State Park superintendent, recently congratulated the Camdenton Oak Ridge Intermediate 5th and 6th grade students who won a ribbon in the annual Ha Ha Tonka pumpkin-carving contest. 

Mobile simulator helps personnel study how fire works.

We'd like to know what you think- is the state doing enough to prevent these tragedies?

The book, The Kite Runner, was taken off required reading lists in the Camdenton High School but remains available in the library, what do you think?

Opera is nothing if not over the top, and the “Don Giovanni” opera includes everything from mistaken identity to duels to romance to the macabre and supernatural — not to mention some of the greatest music in opera.

Just a drive south of Camdenton takes visitors to Rosewood Farms, a place full of old-world tradition, nostalgia and chocolate, chocolate, chocolate.

In his just-published biography, “Abigail Adams: A Life,” the University of Richmond history professor explores lesser-known sides of the husband of one president and mother of another.

You're young and surging with hormones. You feel great, like you can do anything. The last thing in the world you want to do is go to bed. Bed is for babies, they say. And teens, you should say. Teens actually need at least nine hours of sleep each and every night - not five hours on school nights and 12 hours on the weekends.

While many of my tender tropical and annual plants in open areas lie limp, black, and withered, similar plants in more sheltered corners continue to linger, offering welcome reminders of summertime splendor, but with chilly nighttime temperatures predicted for the coming week, the time has come to begin putting the gardens to bed.

Some call it pumice moonwart; and others, grape fern. For those who prefer Latin, it’s Botrychium pumicola. Odds are you’ve never heard of it, and the chances are even greater that you have never seen it (and probably never will).

There will be lots of desserts.

Knights of Columbus holding dinner at St. Patrick church. Menu includes both fried and baked fish.

The Lakers beat Rolla 1-0 in the second overtime to win their first-ever district championship.

Larry Dablemont column

Fall shoreline cleanup project has its rewards

The Pride of the Lake Marching Band took second in the Greater St. Louis Marching Festival Saturday, Oct. 24.

"It feels awesome," said Band Director Paul Baur. "We are just thrilled."

Larry Dablemont column

Darrell Taylor's fishing report for Lake of the Ozarks