Five cyclists earned “bragging rights” by completing the entire Stage Four route of the upcoming Tour of Missouri in a “Ride the Route” event last Saturday, which was hosted by the Rolla Multisport Club.

FSN Midwest will telecast a nightly show throughout next week’s Tour of Missouri, the world-class 623-mile professional bicycle race to be held Monday to Sunday, Sept. 14.

Phelps County Sheriff Don Blankenship said the benefits of new cameras in the department’s vehicles far outweigh the initial price of the equipment, as the county awarded a bid on Thursday to an equipment provider.

Rolla School Board members on Thursday scheduled two sessions later this month with representatives of a public surveying company to poll community support for a bond issue.

Feeling a little water-logged? Well, we should.
While we have not had the winds associated with tropical storms, the incessant rains are remnants of Hurricane Gustav, according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Kelsy Angle.

The St. James Grape & Fall Festival continues today with the livestock show that begins at 9 a.m. and schools in St. James will dismiss at 12:30 p.m.
It figures to be a full weekend of activity.

The weather wasn’t cooperative, but it didn’t dampen the spirits of the nearly 80 people who gathered Wednesday for the opening of the Phelps County Republican Party Campaign Headquarters located at 119 South U.S. Route 63.

Those attending the City Council meeting Tuesday got a first-hand look at the Master Plan for the Rolla West project, and one person who couldn’t be happier with one proposal of that plan is Bob Oetting.

The Pregnancy Resource Center will be hosting its Second Annual Walk for Life at 10 a.m. Sept. 27 at Lions Club Park in Rolla.

Operation: Wounded Soldier, a Community Card Drive, is currently under way and collecting greeting cards for distribution to wounded soldiers throughout the United States.  The drive runs through Sept. 24.

Rolla city workers, many of whom received a one percent cost-of-living raise this current fiscal year, in addition to a 2-1/2 percent minimum pay raise for 2009, will receive a one-time $750 stipend after Oct. 1, when the city’s new fiscal year begins.

Rolla City Council members on Tuesday gave veterans a place to call their own while saving an estimated $75,000 to $100,000 on a bridge to a park that will not be built as it unanimously approved a resolution renaming Southview Park as Veterans Memorial Park.

A Newburg man was found guilty of possession of methamphetamine in a bench trial at the Phelps County Courthouse that hinged upon several, conflicting search-and-seizure laws.

Missouri University of Science and Technology has been selected as the site for an upcoming town hall forum on the U.S. Presidential Election, hosted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that will be free and open to the public.

U.S. Rep. JoAnn Emerson is slated to speak at an informal reception at the grand opening of the new GOP Headquarters in Rolla at 6 p.m. today, announced Phelps County Republicans.