Even though Bob Miller, 95, hasn’t set foot on his family’s farm in decades, he can still vividly picture his father, Frank, on a Sunday afternoon sitting in the shade of an elm tree there in rural northeast Missouri.
It has been nearly 59,000 days since the 19-year-old German immigrant Charles Facius joined the Union army and marched away from his home in rural Franklin County to fight in the American Civil War. Despite the passage of time, Facius’ surviving descendants are hoping to ensure that his name…
Sherwood Kloppenberg has served Union as a barber, an aldermen and, for 67 years, with the fire department. And he’s still going.
When Karen Straatmann moved to Washington, she said there was only one traffic light in town. Still, to her, it felt like a big city.
Harold Freiberger, 92, was born in a washroom at the farm his grandparents had started nearly 30 years before in 1901 and “drove horses until I was about 14 years old, when we got our first tractor” — just two years after the 87-acre farm got electricity.
Franklin County’s newest patrolmen share what it is like to work in the state’s top law enforcement agency
When sixth-grade teacher LuAnn Engelbrecht talks about the students she has taught over the last 18 years at Campbellton and Hermann elementary schools, tears fill her eyes.
Before she spent over two decades teaching in Math Classroom 508 of New Haven High School, Jaime Hoener was a student in it.
Retiring math teacher at St. Francis Borgia Regional High School Mary Ann Pelster said in 43 years, her job was never mundane for long.
Energetic, organized, compassionate, empathetic, firm and knowledgeable.
Angie Newton, a first grade teacher at St. Clair Elementary, said her motto about life’s difficulties was developed two years ago when her 20-year-old daughter, Taylor, died in a car crash.
One hundred years from now, when Washington residents walk past the portraits of the city’s mayors, Sandy Lucy hopes she will be remembered as someone who made a difference.
A Franklin County man is joining other visionaries who see hemp as the building blocks of the future.
Long before sunrise on Thursday, Derek Wilton’s tennis shoes are pounding the pavement of Pacific’s Community Park.
Flowers are beginning to bloom, and hummingbirds are starting to return from their southern winter sojourns, according to ornithologists and other bird enthusiasts.
A music organization in Washington is playing host to a world-renowned German musician, who will stage a concert Sunday, April, 3, at Immanuel Lutheran Church to celebrate the city’s 155-year-old connection to Franz Schwarzer, a giant among fans of the zither instrument.
After months of sitting at the corner of Highways 47 and 94 in Marthasville for hours at a time, inviting passersby for a conversation with a wave and a homemade sign, Rev. Steve Robeson said he eventually developed sun poisoning and had to be more careful.
The last six years have been full of twists, turns, ups and downs, but Tammie Buschling is just grateful to have her eldest son, Dane.
Marshall and Laura Haynes passed away in September, six days apart from one another.
About six decades before The Missourian newspaper helped found the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame, Missouri was already recognizing achievements in visual journalism through the Pictures of the Year competition.
In 2018, Charlie Carpenter, founder and owner of Big River Forge in Dittmer, Missouri, appeared as a contestant on “Forged in Fire,” the History Channel’s reality show that pits highly skilled bladesmiths against one another as they re-create iconic bladed weapons from the past, using a blac…
The Washington Historical Society Museum celebrated its new look with a grand reopening Tuesday.
Up there, in the top row of the bleachers — is it a bird, a plane or perhaps sports superfan Gavin Woolley?
Missionaries say they keep an open mind as they meet with people who may have misconceptions about their faith
Franklin County Commissioner Dave Hinson dealt with COVID-19, storms and fire in his month working on an ambulance crew in New York City.
Like many of us, John Horton will get up Wednesday morning, hop in a vehicle and head off to work, but he will take a touring van to his job, just as he has for much of his adult life.
In November 2020, Ryan Hoerstkamp ended his final high school football season in front of a few hundred spectators at Washington High School’s Jim Scanlan Stadium.
Emily Gaebe is a star freshman ... again.
Monster Jam fanatic and Washington High School student Collin Moss always has been interested in trucks. Because of a neuroradiological condition called cerebellar atrophy, his mom, Julie Moss, said traditional school has only so many opportunities for him.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, four families — the Blands, Clays, Generallys and Inges — were among several to settle amid the rolling hills of what is now the St. Clair, Robertsville and Lonedell area.
Doris and Maurice Hillermann will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary later this year, but it is a relationship that almost didn’t happen.
When Ron Elbert was a teenager, he used spare bits of wood and stuff he found around the house to build a rock climbing wall in his parents’ home. He wasn’t particularly passionate about rock climbing. He loved to build things.
There are some 720,000 words in most Bibles, depending on the translation.
Purple fields of lavender have enchanted gardeners for centuries. Ever since the Romans grew the fragrant blooms to scent their baths, and the Greeks discovered it had soothing medicinal properties, lavender has been prized among plants.
Beth Pike didn’t get much sleep last year. The communications specialist for the State Historical Society of Missouri (SHSMO), who grew up in Washington and now lives in Columbia, said she spent 2021 — and much of 2020 — “living and breathing” the Missouri Bicentennial.
The students in St. Francis Borgia Regional High School’s most recent play had mostly accepted that their Nov. 11-13 run would be their last as these characters.
When Anna Mae Boehmer started piano lessons as a little girl, her feet could barely reach the instrument’s pedals. On Sunday, Dec. 19, those same feet stood near the altar of the Presbyterian Church of Washington, where Boehmer was honored as the church’s longest-tenured member of the choir.
The small group of Sullivan students in the class where Sherry Horn volunteers vary widely in age, backgrounds and occupations, but for three hours twice a week, they are united in a common mission — to complete their high school education.
A crisp chill Saturday morning didn’t stop nearly 75 people from gathering at Crestview Memorial Park in St. Clair to bring a national tradition to a local cemetery for the first time.
Much has changed in the three-plus decades since four friends met up for a morning run outside the Washington McDonald’s, but for nearly 1,870 Saturdays since, at least one thing has stayed consistent: the gentle thud of soles hitting pavement in a synchronized rhythm for an 8-mile loop star…
When Datra Herzog first stepped into the expansive summer home that sits atop a large hill in St. Albans in the early 2000s, seeing the clay tiles dating back nearly a century gave her a sensation akin to opening a storybook. Herzog, a former lobbyist, had purchased and was running the forme…
Paul Annable never met Albert Onyika and hadn’t even heard of him until around 2013, but at least once each year, Annable travels to Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis to visit the grave of the late World War II veteran who came to Missouri from New York. Even though he didn’t…
Much has changed in the nearly five decades since 1976, the year the U.S. celebrated its bicentennial, the Apple computer company was first founded and Judith Hunt purchased a historic home at 783 Homestead Lane in Villa Ridge, moving with her then-husband and two young sons from Webster Gro…
In the early 1900s, a corncob pipe from the H. Tibbe & Son Co., later rebranded as the Missouri Meerschaum Co., would have been a practical and affordable item along the Missouri River, in Washington and beyond.
Several piles of brightly colored Mardi Gras-style beads were among the first things people saw when entering the Union City Park pavilion Sunday. The beads sat on a table managed by a volunteer, who shared the beads’ meanings with guests. Blue beads were for people who support efforts for s…
Many people who travel the Katy Trail pass a small bench near the Riverview Boat Club in Treloar without a second glance, but for Tim Johnson, it’s one of the most special places in the world.
Just north of downtown Augusta on Jackson Street, an unassuming gravel driveway leads to a site with a story that has been centuries in the making, even predating the town of Augusta.
Among the most memorable lines in L.M. Montgomery’s beloved book “Anne of Green Gables” is one that could apply to many Missourians as easily as to the Canadian author. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,” she writes.
"This (show) is a celebration of animal power, traditional skills, crafts and life before the industrial era, and how that knowledge is still valuable and relevant in today’s world."
– Gail Cross
Festival organizer
When he first stepped onto the stage, the bright lights warming his face, Gus McAfoos had never performed with a microphone before. A stagehand adjusted the stand’s height to better suit the 11-year-old Washington boy, and as McAfoos began, he concentrated on remembering the microphone tips …
Among a multitude of joyful and sometimes searing memories from 13 years volunteering at Franklin County CASA, one moment in particular never fails to warm Carol Gruber’s heart. She was attending a “A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail” at East Central College with the 9-year-old she’d been assi…
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