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There is nothing more American than a small town Labor Day celebration. The 30th Annual Williamsville/Black River Fire Department Picnic will embody everything people think of when thinking of a small town, All-American event. According to Gene Bilbrey, chairman of the picnic committee, this year's event will have everything from a town parade, to favorite foods, to lots of entertainment. Friday Evening Friday’s musical entertainment will begin at 5 p.m., with Morgan Kirkman of Ellsinore. Also featured Friday evening will be Jordan Rayfield of Piedmont; Brandi Shearrer and Brooke Cathey of Williamsville; Brian Kirkman of Ellsinore; BreAnna (Bearden) Conner and McKenzie Miller of Williamsville; Heartland Quartet of Ellsinore; Richmond Quartet of Wappapello; and then square dancing at 9 p.m. Saturday

The Brothers Walker are coming to Poplar Bluff's Historic Rodgers Theatre, Saturday, August 30, at 7 p.m. They are hoping for a great crowd, first, because they love their audiences, and second, because they will be doing a video shoot of the performance. Who comes to a Brothers Walker concert? Well...everyone. “That's what we love about our audience,” explained Coty. “We will see everyone out there in the crowd from grandparents, to children.” It's really like an extended family, agrees Clinton. That is important, because the Brothers Walker say family has everything to do with their music careers. When you ask them about their musical “career”, they really have a hard time pin-pointing when their career began. “We started at

I try to remind myself not to spend too much time talking about the weather in this column, as I am not a meteorologist (witch doctor) and some folks won't see the printed version of this article for another week. The thing is though, as an outdoors-man, the only people that are as affected by the weather as much us are farmers, and maybe a bride-to-be on the precipice of her outdoor wedding! Although it's been so hot and humid you couldn't smack a mosquito without making a splash, the holiday weekend is alleging to bring a nice cool front, which should carry with it a big migration of doves. Unfortunately for hunters, and more unfortunately for farmers who are

Poplar Bluff, Mo. - When the nation's Veterans Affairs Health system came under fire because of a scandal that grew out of a Phoenix, Az., VA Hospital, U.S. Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill stepped to the forefront immediately to work to improve healthcare for U.S. Veterans. The scandal arose because veterans were not getting treatment soon enough, and because fraudulent records were being used to keep track of how long it was taking veterans to get the help they needed. McCaskill visited the John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff on Tuesday to announce that the Poplar Bluff facility is being added to a survey system to keep track of how VA Centers are performing in the eyes of

Poplar Bluff, Mo. - Super-fast gigabit-class Internet is coming to Poplar Bluff, Missouri. NewWave Communications is deploying Version 3.1 of DOCSIS (the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification), the next generation and new standard in cable technology, in the fourth quarter of 2014 and expects to deliver 1-gigabit Internet service. The upgrade of NewWave’s Poplar Bluff system has been underway for months beginning at the time the system was purchased from The City of Poplar Bluff in April 2014. NewWave’s investment in new technology for its small-to-mid sized markets will make available Internet speeds up to 100 times faster than the national average. While other companies are promoting gigabit speeds in select major metropolitan cities, NewWave is proud to be at