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Next week, I am going to spend several nights on some lake in my camp-boat and hunt turkeys. I intend to take a long my johnboat to use for fishing. I will set a trotline, hunt mushrooms and …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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4/21/20
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Over the past several months, I have seen an increase in RV campers, boats, etc. parking on city streets.
At times this parking is near an intersection causing a traffic hazard/concern or the …
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By Chief Robert Rickerd, Owensville Police Department
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4/15/20
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If Mr. Hoernschemeyer doesn’t think President Trump is happy to define his own self-serving version of reality for us to swallow, that’s his privilege.
Personally we don’t like …
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Gasconade County Democrats Club
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4/15/20
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Mr. Miskel,
Your recent decision to now support the Gasconade County Health Department’s “Stay at Home” order provides the citizens a unified voice from their county government …
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Arlie Appler
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4/15/20
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Dear Editor:
The 2020 Census is our chance to make sure the hard-earned tax dollars we send to Washington D.C. make their way back to Washington County and the Meramec Region. For every adult and …
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4/15/20
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I am going to start my column this week with a quote from Otto von Bismarck, “Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”
Bismarck — whose full name and …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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4/15/20
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The virus hasn’t made life much different for me because how I live now is not much different than I have always lived. Up here on this isolated ridgetop I call Lightnin’ Ridge, the …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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4/13/20
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The coronavirus pandemic has raised some difficult journalistic questions for which there are not easy answers.
Journalists are facing conflicts between stressing good health practices while, at …
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By Phill Brooks, Contributing Columnist
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4/8/20
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I want to commend the GCDC for the first half of their “ Defining Reality” letter on April 1, I think it was something that everyone agrees with.
However the second half was the usual …
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By August Hoernschemeyer
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4/8/20
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Gentlemen,
It has been reported, and widely disseminated, that the Gasconade County Commission rejects the issuance of a “Stay at Home” order. The notion that our county is rural and …
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By Arlie Appler
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4/8/20
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This is Holy Week. A Holy Week unlike anything anyone has ever witnessed. One that just a few months ago, was unimaginable. It’s a Holy Week that will be experienced, for most of us, from the …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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4/8/20
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It is ‘mushroom’ week here in my area of the Ozarks. I found the first ones on the second day of April, which is unusual because the average time of eruption over the years has been about …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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4/6/20
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The COVID19 news is certainly not reassuring, but it’s not all bad either. To find the good news, however, it’s necessary to sometimes look carefully.
Below are excerpts from a March …
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By Ralph Voss, Contributing Columnist
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4/1/20
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We all need a good laugh now and then — especially now. With the overwhelming majority of news today concerning the novel coronavirus I am constantly looking for distractions. If you spend all …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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4/1/20
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White bass caught on ultra-lite equipment, will outfight about anything in a stream… except smallmouth. And when there is a good current in a tributary to any Ozark lake, if you find a bunch …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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3/30/20
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Most think of Florida and Louisiana when you think of Hurricane Katrina, especially New Orleans. The unfortunate …
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John Grady, Hermann, Mo.
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3/25/20
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To the Editor:
The news we received in recent weeks is dominated by reports about the corona 19 virus and how we should respond to it.
I listen to the recommended guidelines and try to follow …
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Wayne R. Dieckhaus
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3/25/20
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Dear Mr. Warden:
Your March 18 Editorial/Opinion in the March 18th edition of the Unterrified Democrat is irresponsible and dangerous to public health.
By encouraging people to continue with …
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Bill Folk, MU professor of biochemistry and adjunct in public health
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3/25/20
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Hello Mr. Warden,
Regarding your article that includes the statement “I’m not letting this new strain of flu scare me or affect my actions” could not be more insensitive …
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Nancy C.
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3/25/20
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I don’t want anyone to misinterpret what I’m saying in this column. I’m not saying authorities are overreacting and I’m certainly not saying that people should not take …
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By Ralph Voss, Contributing Columnist
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3/25/20
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