Mar 8, 2017 | Community News, Courthouse News, Human Interest
Most travelers to Lake Viking spend little time thinking about the roads they use. If roads are adequate and in good repair, few have questions when roads seem as they should be. But today, questions about shoulder and ditch improvements on the Altamont Entrance...
Mar 2, 2017 | Community News, Human Interest
Severe Weather Awareness Week and Statewide Tornado Drill help prepare Missourians for severe weather threats In just one weekend last month, 19 people were killed by tornadoes in the southeastern U.S., more than were killed by tornadoes in the entire U.S. during all...
Feb 9, 2017 | Community News, Human Interest, Law Enforcement
Captain James E. McDonald, commanding officer Troop H, St Joseph, announces a boater safety certification course will be offered from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., on Saturday, March 25, 2017, at Troop H Headquarters, 3525 North Belt, St. Joseph, Missouri. There is no fee for the...
Feb 9, 2017 | Community News, Historic Archives, Human Interest
Written by Sammy Evans The Evans family, consisting of my parents Ben and Ada and seven of us children (sisters, Lena Mae, Violet and Rosealee (Boyd Carpenter) and brothers, Floyd, James and Jack) were all born in the Lickfork neighborhood in southeast Daviess...
Feb 8, 2017 | Clubs & Organizations, Community News, Human Interest
The Show-Me Grape and Wine Conference and Symposium will return in March with new topics and events, as well as a tasting of Missouri wines. The events, which are hosted by the University of Missouri Grape and Wine Institute (GWI), will run from March 8-10. The...
Feb 8, 2017 | Historic Archives, Human Interest
Kenny Mort found this picture in his archives. It was taken at Camp McCoy, Wis., where Battery B, 381st Field Artillery Battalion, 102nd Ozark Division, had gone for yearly training. It was in 1957 or 1958. The Gallatin Reserves went to the meetings at Camp McCoy...
Feb 8, 2017 | Human Interest, Regional News
Southeast Missouri is at the center of the New Madrid Seismic Zone, the most active seismic area east of the Rocky Mountains Gov. Eric R. Greitens has proclaimed February as Earthquake Awareness Month in Missouri, in recognition of the earthquake hazard posed by the...
Feb 1, 2017 | City/Local Government, Community News, Courthouse News, Human Interest, Public Notices
Feb 1, 2017 | Human Interest
Gallatin is well represented in Bradenton, Fla., in January of each year. In this photo taken on Jan. 18, at the Outback restaurant is Don and Carol Weaver, Barb Morrison, Louise Taylor, Carol and Wayne Wood, Duane and Ruth Frost, Nancy Terry and John Thompson, and...
Feb 1, 2017 | Community News, Human Interest
by T.L. Huffman Dylan Leeper of rural Gallatin is a land-locked farmer, but he took to scuba diving like a fish to water. Exploring an underwater world through scuba diving is an exhilarating experience that not everyone can enjoy. Nor should they. There are potential...
Jan 18, 2017 | Announcements, Historic Archives, Human Interest
On Jan. 6, 2017, 35 years will have passed since the Bergman murders took place at a rural home north of Gallatin. On Jan. 6, 1982, Hal Page shot and killed Mary Bergman, 41, and wounded two of her children, Carl, 12, and Kevin, 16. He also killed a local electrician...
Jan 11, 2017 | Human Interest, School News
The Class of 1967 is responsible for getting the ball rolling for the Gallatin Alumni Banquet to be held on May 27. The Class would really like to see everyone. Even if you have not attended for a long time, 2017 would be a great year to start a new tradition. Tours...
Jan 11, 2017 | Community News, Human Interest
Gallatin Rotary Club will hold the second annual Trivia Night at 7 p.m. on Feb. 4 at the Lake Viking Clubhouse. Make reservations by Feb. 1; call 663-8929. The cost is $20 a person with six to eight people per table. A silent auction will be held. Heavy appetizers and...
Jan 11, 2017 | Human Interest
By Janet Hackert, Regional Nutrition and Health Education Specialist For those whose New Year’s resolution was to get fit both physically and financially, a recent study quantified the financial benefit of being physically active. According to research reported in the...
Jan 4, 2017 | Human Interest
by T.L. Huffman Are you haunted by the ghosts of Christmas past? Or anything else for that matter? Then Sam Uptegrove, Greenfield, is interested in your story. He would like to develop a network of sources in Northwest Missouri to include in a book he is writing. Mr....
Jan 4, 2017 | Clubs & Organizations, Community News, Human Interest
The Gallatin Theater League is closing out another busy and successful year and making plans for an equally prosperous 2017. The semi-annual membership meeting will be combined with a membership rally and social on Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. at the bingo hall in Gallatin. ...
Jan 4, 2017 | Community News, Human Interest
Daviess County Library has expanded its services with ebooks, digital audiobooks and streaming video available to enjoy from the library’s online catalog OverDrive. Library card holders can borrow popular digital media anytime, anywhere by visiting...
Jan 4, 2017 | Human Interest
by T.L. Huffman Do you have a bent for hand-crafted art? Then Bent Tree Gallery is for you. Marcia and John Whitt started a hand-made furniture business in their garage 36 years ago. The family business has evolved since then to its present 1,300 feet showroom with...
Dec 14, 2016 | Human Interest
Berton Knox provided the Gallatin North Missourian with this picture of something falling from the sky at 10:50 p.m. on November 11. The ball of light was captured looking northeast from a half mile east of Hwy. D on Pleasant Road in northeast DeKalb County. The image...
Dec 14, 2016 | Community News, Human Interest
It has taken Rita Agenstein a lifetime to make peace with her past. Her story, along with millions of other young girls who surrendered children for adoption through the fifties, sixties and early seventies, was kept hidden under a cloak of secrecy and shame. But it...
