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Ellsinore, MO · Lifestyle
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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.
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Portion of Cape LaCroix Trail to be closed for repair project
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (Heartland News) - A portion of the Cape LaCroix Recreational Trail will be closed on Thursday, September 17, for a repair project. The closure affects the section just south of the trail entrance by the Arena Park Sand Volleyball Courts. According to Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation,...
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FosterAdopt Connect to host Midnight in Paris Ball in Cape Girardeau
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KBSI) — FosterAdopt Connect Cape Girardeau is selling a limited number of Golden Raffle tickets ahead of its Midnight in Paris Ball. Only 100 tickets are available. Each ticket costs $100. The winner may choose one of four experiences:. * A trip to Saint-Émilion, France.
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The Hidden Missouri Restaurant Tucked Inside A Century-Old Train Depot Will Take You Back In Time
There’s a particular kind of magic that happens when a building with real history gets a second life that’s worthy of its first one, and The Depot Cafe in Fredericktown, Missouri is about as good an example of that magic as you’re going to find anywhere in this state.
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Longtime St. Jude supporter wins Dream Home
PADUCAH — The St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway has now concluded, with one lucky Kentuckian walking away with a new 2,800-square-foot house in the Eagle Landing community of Grand Rivers. On Thursday, WPSD-TV anchor Chanel-Taylar McCarthy announced that Jerry L. Peek, 80, of Eddyville, would be this year’s recipient...
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Paducah Sports Park celebrates grand opening
PADUCAH — Paducah Sports Park by CFSB held its long-awaited grand opening ceremony Thursday, featuring vendors, inflatables, free meals, a ribbon-cutting ceremony and the city’s first-ever drone show. Jeff Woodside, Paducah Sports Park’s general manager, shared his excitement for the celebrations, noting that the initial conversation on starting...
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Jackson art teacher creates 2,977-link tribute to 9/11 victims
JACKSON, Mo. (KBSI) — A Jackson art teacher created a paper chain with 2,977 links — one honoring each victim killed in the Sept. 11 attacks. Orchard Drive Elementary art teacher Kori Demyan spent about 30 hours building the tribute ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks. The finished chain became so heavy that she needed two backdrops to support it.