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Like most of my friends, I found history in high school uninteresting, to say the least. Really, it was boring. As I remember it, no one liked our history class. But you had to take it to graduate.
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/8/26
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By Larry Dablemont
When I was a boy we had a fellow back home in the hills that had two big teeth that stuck out in front. His big front teeth didn’t bother him much as he did …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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9/1/26
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In Sevier County Tenn., the 1990 drop out rate for the public school was 35 percent. This created a lot of adults who could not read or write or hold any but the simplest jobs. One person stepped up …
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By Paul Hamby
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9/1/26
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Government 101. Time for a refresher course concerning Missouri government and our constitution.
In Missouri, there are three ways to amend the constitution: legislative proposals, …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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9/1/26
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Crawford County recorded 46 fatal drug overdoses between 2019 and 2022 — 46 neighbors, parents, sons, and daughters whose deaths are too often reduced to a statistic, or worse, a stigma. Statewide, …
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9/1/26
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Today I love to watch both gray and fox squirrels from my porch, and there is one tree just a ways from my office where baby gray squirrels are born every year. They emerge from the hole in the early …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/25/26
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I want to know why Cuba can’t blacktop eastbound 66. I checked with the mayor and he said it was up to MoDOT. MoDOT says, they would but Cuba has to pay for it. Route 66 is a state highway, but why …
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8/25/26
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In a recent edition of the Steelville Star, we read claims that Bernie Sanders is a communist and hates this country, that the Democratic Socialists of America has taken over the Democratic party, …
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8/25/26
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It took 9 years to get the PDMP, Prescription Drug Monitoring Program passed in Missouri. PDMP is a program where your confidential prescription medication information is shared through a network of …
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By Paul Hamby
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8/25/26
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One thing that makes the United States of America unique is that it is made up of 50 individual states. These states share many similarities with how they are run, but no two are identical.
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/25/26
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In July, President Trump made an address to the nation re-asserting that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. He said he had new evidence that he released on July 17 proving this. His smoking …
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By Paul Hamby
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8/19/26
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Darrell Hindman, of Living the Dream Outdoors Properties in Leasburg, placed a winning 5-digit bid for one of Ted Nugent’s guitars at the Legends of the Outdoors Hall of Fame banquet held at …
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By Bill Cooper
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8/18/26
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We have worked with Equipping the Harvest Ministries from Potosi, Missouri for over 25 years to collect and deliver toys and hygiene items to the children in the poorest areas of Baja, Mexico.
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8/18/26
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It has come to my attention that the Crawford County Library Board has been asked to consider reducing the tax levy that supports the system. I’m writing to urge anyone who has ever used the …
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8/18/26
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Summertime is in full swing, and with it comes so many of the things we enjoy: swimming, picnics, camping, and spending time outdoors. It’s also the time of year when we have to keep up with mowing …
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8/18/26
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Crawford County has our own library district, which means our library tax stays in our county, supporting our three libraries: Steelville, Cuba, and Bourbon. The library district is overseen by …
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8/18/26
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At a funeral I attended a couple of years ago, the priest commented in his homily that “simple ordinary goodness does not make the news.” I’m here to set the record straight.
In today’s …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/18/26
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The crawdad, or crayfish, is an unusual creature, always looking back where he has been, and going where his isn’t looking. Quite often where he has been appears quite safe and there looms a …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/12/26
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My maternal grandparents, Bert and Hilda McNew, had a little farm out southeast of Houston, Missouri a few miles. I was born in their old farmhouse. They were wonderful people whom I dearly loved.
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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8/11/26
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I’ve heard of Gist Ranch, in Texas County, ever since the Missouri Department of Conservation purchased the 11,240 acre property from Smith Flooring in 1997. I had never laid eyes on it until last …
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By Bill Cooper
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8/11/26
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