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Big River Band at Senior Center Big Birthdays and Anniversaries for the week of July 30 – August 5, 2025: July 30 — Dave Dunham, Dennis Burge, Jacob Garner July 31 — Brett Robbins, C.J. Ostrander, Grady Robbins Aug. 1 — Christina Troxell, Ethan Raftery, Jean Simington, Linda Kirk, Sheryl and Andy Borrowman

The summer church picnics have arrived. This weekend, July 26 and 27, is the Batchtown Picnic at St. Barbara’s Catholic Church. Saturday night, the picnic begins after the 4 p.m. mass with Turtle Soup, a well-known picnic tradition, beef sand, chicken salad sandwich hot dogs, and choices of cake, and. tea, and coffee. Outdoors on…

The summer heat and humidity were definitely upon us for the weekend and now also in the week ahead. We’ve had several showers of rain lately and the crops, gardens, lawns and so forth are looking great. The Peach crop is in full swing, starting the past week and going forward. The high temperatures are…

We are working on the details for the Summer Celebration August 16. We will start off our celebration with a parade at 3 p.m. with the 2025 Grand Marshalls “Kampsville American Legion Post 1083” we would be lost in Kampsville without these amazing guys and we are glad to honor them. Following the parade will…

Get your sports physicals for school athletics before July 31 Griggsville-Perry School District’s registration for the 2025-2026 school year is currently open. Save-the-date for Open House Aug. 11 from 4 p.m.-6 p.m. and the first day of school Aug. 13 (2 p.m. dismissal).

Big River Band at Senior Center “There are two kinds of people: those who don’t do what they want to do, so they write down in a diary about what they haven’t done, and those who haven’t time to write about it because they’re out doing it.” Richard Flournoy and Lewis R. Foster.

Typical summer weather- with it being hot with rain over the weekend. Rain took down a few trees that sat on the banks of creeks. The shoring up of banks that protect trees from washing away is the goal to help secure the roads from erosion and to save the trees, and landscape. It’s something…

Around 90 degrees all last week with a wonderful 2-3/10th inch rain on Tuesday and then again late Friday night another one inch. Crops, gardens and lawns all enjoying that.

Calhoun Entertainment Company Jamboree Sunday at St. Anslem’s was amazing. So much talent and the laughs just kept coming.

Summer is dwindling fast; enjoy it while you can Hope you are enjoying your summer days, been quite hot but this week looks like a little break from muggy heat! Hope your enjoying fruits of your labor, garden fresh veggies on the dinner table!