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Kentucky distillery to debut bourbon in Missouri at Jackson event
JACKSON, Mo., (KBSI) — Jackson Purchase Distillery will introduce its bourbon in Missouri during the William J Wines Bourbon in the Park event in Jackson. The Kentucky distillery’s first shipment to Missouri crossed the Mississippi River aboard the Dorena-Hickman Ferry on Friday. The bourbon is being delivered to Jackson for the tasting event.
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Kennady Wins Paducah's 'Dancing With Our Stars'
Kelsey Kennady of Paducah went from being an audience member to the star of the show. Kennady won the top prize in the 19th Annual American Cancer Society Coad Toyota Paducah Dancing With Our Stars, presented by Harrah's Metropolis and Stor-Mor Portable Buildings. The annual fundraising event was held Saturday night at the Paducah Convention Center.
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This Missouri State Park Has Native Pine Forests, Sandstone Canyons, And Crystal-Clear Streams
Missouri does not usually bring pine forests and sandstone canyons to mind at the same time, but this park manages to pull both together. Tall shortleaf pines rise above rocky trails, while clear streams wind through narrow valleys and over exposed stone. The scenery changes quickly, which keeps a hike...
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Jackson Purchase Distillery bourbon to make Missouri debut at Jackson event
JACKSON, Mo. (Heartland News) - A delivery of bourbon bound for this weekend’s Bourbon in the Park event crossed the Mississippi River for the first time Friday morning. The shipment from Jackson Purchase Distillery left Kentucky on the Dorena-Hickman Ferry. It is the distillery’s first shipment to Missouri.
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Blues, Brews, and BBQ Returns to Downtown Farmington
Farmington, Mo. (KFMO) - Blues, Brews, and BBQ returns to Historic Downtown Farmington September 18 and 19, 2026, bringing a weekend of live music, food, craft beer, and family-friendly activities to the community. The annual event, hosted by Discover Farmington, features blues bands, craft beer vendors, unique food options, a...
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Mosquitoes vs. Memories: The Outer Banks Stars Reflect
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More vendors, bigger stage planned for 32nd annual BBQ on the River
PADUCAH — The 32nd annual BBQ on the River festival is set to kick off next Thursday, Sept. 24, and this year’s organizers say it could be the biggest one yet. On Friday, Tyler Parker — BBQ on the River director — and Blaine McDonald — executive director of Paducah Main Street — outlined what this year’s event has in store. McDonald also noted that, just before BBQ on the River begins, Paducah Main Street’s annual Porkstock event will be held Wednesday, Sept. 23, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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Chronic Wasting Disease surveillance returns for 2026-27 hunting season
GRAVES COUNTY, Ky. — Hunters in the Jackson Purchase Region will face limited restrictions this deer season for Chronic Wasting Disease. CWD is a fatal brain disease caused by misfolded proteins that only affects members of the deer family, causing lesions in the brain and eventual death. "It's an...
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Pierre Menard Home State Historic Site
The Louisiana Plantation Home in Southern Illinois. Four miles north of Chester, Illinois, where a footpath connects to Fort Kaskaskia State Park and Mississippi River bottomlands stretch below a bluff, stands a French Creole mansion erected around 1802-1815 by a Québécois trader who arrived in the Illinois Country at fifteen and remained to become the first lieutenant governor of Illinois. The Pierre Menard Home—a two-and-a-half-story structure with hipped and dormered roof, wide wraparound galerie supported by sturdy square stone pillars, and proportions suggesting ease and established wealth—represents elegant frontier living at the moment when French colonial commerce was transforming into American territorial governance. Built by master carpenter Joseph Champaigne for Pierre Menard during those transformative early years of the 19th century, the house stands as rare surviving example of Louisiana-type plantation architecture constructed north of Louisiana, proof that French colonial building traditions persisted in the Illinois Country even as political authority shifted beneath them.
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Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site
Near Ellis Grove, Illinois, where the Kaskaskia River meets the Mississippi in a confluence of currents and history, a 200-acre bluff overlooks a landscape that tells a story of grandeur surrendered to nature’s patient theft. Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site preserves earthen remains—ramparts in rough square formation with bastions at corners—of a small French fort built around 1759 to defend a town that had become, by then, the principal commercial center of the Illinois Country. Yet the river that once made Kaskaskia valuable through commerce eventually made it expendable through erosion: the original town of Old Kaskaskia, thriving on river-rich bottomland, occupied an island that the Mississippi gradually claimed until, by the 1880s-1890s, it was gone—washed away, leaving only memory and earthen traces on a bluff overlooking what had been taken.
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Trail of Tears State Park: Where History Runs Deeper Than the River
Somewhere between St. Louis and Memphis on our road trip, Trail of Tears State Park showed up on the map, and we needed a place to stop, anyway. It had hookups, and it was on the route, and that was the full extent of our research. We pulled in expecting a functional campground and ended up staying two nights without any real debate about it.