When Scott Ellinger first decided to serve free meals on Thanksgiving six years ago, the idea started small for The Brass Rail restaurant owner.

BOWLING GREEN—Sitting in a deer blind, at the top of most hunters’ thoughts most likely would be will I be able to bag a deer this season.

LOUISIANA – There were plenty of interested parties when Charlie and Mary Perkins quietly indicated that they were looking for a buyer for Trailerman Trailers.

BOWLING GREEN—Some may say that the Christmas season starts too early, and it seems like it gets earlier every year. But for the Teasley family, it’s a necessity.

BOWLING GREEN—Before opening a new facility here in Bowing Green, DCI’s dialysis clinic operated out of smaller quarters in the Louisiana hospital.

Workers in northeast Missouri are graying, and less credentialed than other parts of the state, according to a recently released report.

LOUISIANA – For the time being, Louisiana will probably go without a city employee dedicated exclusively to economic development.

Today, Lakeway Publishers, Inc. announced a restructuring of upper management for their newspaper properties in Missouri.

BOWLING GREEN – Pike County Economic Development will offer help to local job-seekers at their office in Bowling Green as of next week.

Henny Penny offers more than the eye can see

TROY, MO. – Members of Cuivre River Electric Cooperative, who are currently enrolled in the co-op’s medical alert registry, will soon receive correspondence, which requests completion of a new form in order to maintain status as a medical priority account.

A survey of businesses across the country conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics  found that the average weekly wage for workers in Pike County was $631 in the first three months of 2019, the federal agency announced earlier this month.

LOUISIANA – Golfers gave—and then gave again—at the Louisiana Chamber of Commerce’s annual golf tournament Friday.

Tom Latos joins Lakeway Publishers as the new regional publisher for The Bowling Green Times, The Louisiana Press-Journal and The Vandalia Leader.

Pike County registered a year-on-year drop in its monthly unemployment rate in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.

In response to flooding in Missouri and across the country this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is announcing the availability of $9 million to fund conservation easements in 69 Missouri counties damaged by flooding and other natural disasters.

KIRKSVILLE – A regional economic development group is circulating a survey aimed squarely at the region’s workforce needs.

BOWLING GREEN – Jill Kiel has joined the staff at CBC Bank’s Bowling Green location where she will be serving as loan officer, the bank announced last week. 

LOUISIANA – A Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster recovery center will provide a sort of one-stop shop for locals looking for help getting back on their feet after this spring and summer's flooding starting this weekend.

The unemployment rate in Pike County ticked upward in June according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. It reached 3.9 percent, above the 3.3 percent rate seen in May.

BOWLING GREEN – The Pike County Youth Fair Sale will take place this year on Thursday, July 25.  The sale will be held in the livestock barn at 7 p.m.

LOUISIANA – Work has been underway for about a week on the last way-station on the route to the opening of the new Champ Clark Bridge: the construction of the approach over the Sny levee in Illinois.

TROY – Pike County members of Cuivre River Electric Cooperative can now vote to fill the county’s set on the organizations Board of Directors.

ST. LOUIS – Pike County residents that receive their electricity through Ameren may see a very slight decrease in rates.

The unemployment rate in Pike County has been below 3.2 percent only a few times since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started publishing county-level information in the 1990s.

LOUISIANA – April Greenman remembers being struck by historic Louisiana as she drove through town many years ago.

By Adam Thorp

(submitted photo)Bouncing back: Speed Commerce employees participate in a ping-pong tournament, one of the events marking the first anniversary of their new ownership. From left: Alissa Horton, Derek Ingram, Johnnie Taylor, Shelly Hill, Laura Martin, Dale Jordan, Michael Alexander and Helen Junge.

(photo by Robert Leininger)Julie House.

Stark Bro’s Nurseries & Orchards, Co. brought together experts from across their industry recently for a growers symposium, an effort to pool the knowledge of industry experts.

Council-persons Tim Jackson (Ward I), Jeff Salois (Ward III) and Rodney Dolbeare (Ward IV) at the Monday, March 25 meeting of the Louisiana City Council. (photo by Adam Thorp/Louisiana Press-Journal)

The soon-to-be-closed gap on the Champ Clark Bridge (photo courtesy of Walter Logan)The installation of the last deck panels on the Champ Clark bridge represents a major milestone in the completion of the new bridge. (photo courtesy of Walter Logan)One of the last of 181 deck panels on the C…

Community State Bank of Missouri broke ground on its newest banking facility located at the Bowling Green Town Center on Tuesday, March 12.

Mark Blackwell of Hannibal has been promoted from contract maintenance technician to supervisor of the North East Community Action Corporation (NECAC) Self-Help Housing Home Rehabilitation program, NECAC President and Chief Executive Officer Don Patrick has announced.

Jeffrey McChristian from Liberty Utilities presents the deed to Tracy Brookshier, chairperson for the downtown committee and the first vice-president of the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce, and Deanna Feldmann, the president of the Chamber of Commerce at the Chamber’s February meeting. (su…

Air Evac Lifeteam personnel approach their recently landed helicopter. Adam Thorp/Louisiana Press-Journal

The home and accompanying lots at 1210 Georgia Street sold Saturday, Feb. 23 at auction for $140,000.

Bouquet Florist delivery driver Heather Francis sits in the front seat of the car that she uses to deliver flowers in and around Bowling Green on Valentine’s Day last week. Francis says the long hours on the road are worth it as she gets to see firsthand how the floral arrangements sent by t…

Ron Schott

Ken Lane, 2019’s “Waiter of the year” juggles two pitchers as he serves thirsty diners.