From the street, the Waterworks Building in James W. Rennick Riverfront Park looks much the same as it did when vacated several years ago. But stepping inside the historic building, which was constructed in 1888, there’s no mistaking that the building has been transformed into WashMO on the …
The last of the 50 airline trips funded by a grant to the Friends Foundation of Warren & Franklin County is nearing. But the memories will last the people with intellectual and developmental challenges who took the trips, as well as their caregivers, a lifetime.
James Schaffner’s military career began in 1944 when he was drafted into the U.S. Army at the age of 18 to serve in World War II.
Karen Heitkamp is no longer paralyzed in fear when she is presented with a blank canvas.
A homegrown music festival that has generated tens of thousands of dollars for local charities is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year with a nod to an iconic band that is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
A yet-to-be identified steamboat was recently discovered at the bottom of the Missouri River near Rocheport, sparking renewed interest in wrecks all along the river basin.
Joyce Couch has never missed the Washington Town & Country Fair.
Tomatoes, which are typically ready for harvest in early June, are just becoming available in numbers. Cheryl Orlando, owner of Andy’s Produce Too, said they have been the hardest vegetable to find this growing season. Orlando has been around produce stands for as long as she can remember an…
The Union Post 297 Freshmen did one better than their last trip to the American Legion Freshman State Tournament.
With more than 7,000 caves across the state, Missouri has been dubbed the cave state. And with 47 caves throughout its 6,896 acres, Meramec State Park has the most caves of any park within the Missouri State Parks system.
It’s much, much more than just a sport.
Looking back on it now, Tyler and Megan (nee Noelke) Breckenkamp said one of the most pivotal moments in their lives happened in 2013 at a St. Francis Borgia High School homecoming dance.
After knowing each other for years, Emily (nee Scheible) and Rick Tobben found themselves alone in a booth at Applebee’s.
Tucked away in a series of shoeboxes within their Washington home are the love letters that Clayton and Andrea (nee Feldmann) Voss have written to each other over the years. The pair, who were married June 19, 2021, have written hundreds of letters to each other.
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.
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