Leopold has been my home for my entire life. While I have moved once, both of houses I've lived in have been in this little town. And of course, that begs the question: What is your definition of ...

As summer comes to an end, we are looking at our new routines of school drop-offs, watching the grandchildren play in their favorite sports and saying goodbye to our RiverWalking exercise at Cape ...

I've long known I'm a bit of an oddball. I could fill a column with proof of that assessment, but I'll focus on just one for now. Studies show the vast majority of people anticipate a fresh start with ...

The assignment: 500 words about a billboard, which is about a meme, which a TikTok video was about before it made it into a meme I was on the road again, in the middle of the 3,000 miles I would drive ...

Get ready for family fun that brings the region together in Cape Girardeau at the 168th-annual SEMO District Fair, Sept. 7-14 at Arena Park. This year, the SEMO District Fair Board's main focus is ...

Jayne Ervin, owner of Jayson Jewelers, grew up in Cape Girardeau with a city grandmother and a country grandmother. She says her city grandmother, Grace Erlbacher Dace, was a classy lady, always ...

I found a crawdad in the pool and thought I knew what I should do. I fished him out and took him down across the street to a little pond. The pond seemed like the perfect place for a lonely crawdad to ...

I have been fortunate in different ways. One way is having experienced photography as it has developed and evolved throughout the past few decades from film photography and darkroom printing to ...

In 1866, a gentleman and his family by the name of Gonner came to America. He was a talented civil engineer who was born in Pfaffental, a suburb of Luxembourg. Choosing a career as a construction ...

The subject matter here consists of a grasshopper, a sunflower almost in bloom and a farm tractor in the background. The tractor is hooked to a machine called a round baler. I found this scene near a ...

YEARS AGO In 1974, President Gerald Ford was of a very forgiving mind. On Sept. 8, he pardoned former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes committed during and after the break-in at the ...

"He was on our radar." How many times have we heard that after a mass shooting at a high school or a shopping mall? We heard it for the umpteenth time again this week after a disturbed 14-year-old kid ...