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A local game warden got himself a radio show on a Lebanon, Missouri radio station several years ago and he ended it each week with this statement, “Remember, if we (the MDC) don’t say you …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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6/7/23
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I said in last week’s column that I would write about the fourth venomous snake in the Ozarks and I will. That snake is the hog-nosed snake, or spreading adder, as it is also known. Yes, it has …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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6/14/23
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I continue to talk to Enforcement Chief Randy Doman of the Missouri Department of Conservation and try to pass on what he wants hunters and fishermen to know. I stress to many who doubt what I …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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12/20/23
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I want to make people aware of what they will never hear anywhere else. I wrote about killing blacksnakes and black vultures and brown-headed cowbirds and I ran into a self-appointed wanna-be …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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6/21/23
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I turned eleven years old in October of 1958. When we floated the river in November that year I just sat in the front of the old johnboat, peering over the front of the blind, wishing I could hunt …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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12/27/23
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I wrote about some things awhile back that some folks questioned. One column concerned skunks and someone hoorahed the idea that skunks carry rabies and therefore there is liable to be a rabies …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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3/27/24
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When I think of all the fascinating things I have seen in this natural world I have been exploring well over 40 years, one of the most fascinating is a little snake that my grandmother told me was a …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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6/28/23
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I want to address your article in the Maries County Advocate on July 12, concerning the lunch program at Maries R-1.
I see no problem with the small price increase on lunches. If the parents are …
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7/26/23
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Well, my Sisters’ Day started off with a bang! I got up with my mind all full of prescriptions. Whaley’s Pharmacy closed rather suddenly for me. I heard about it on …
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8/30/23
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Along the Ozark streams, a favorite place of mine nowadays, as it gets hot and muggy, there comes the cry of a strange type of crow, a kind of caw that sounds like the black rascal is choking on …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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7/5/23
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Dozens of new laws are set to take effect at the end of August, with the work of the Missouri Legislature in the 2023 legislative session finally coming to fruition.
Several new laws and …
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By State Rep. Bruce Sassmann, Missouri’s 61st District
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8/30/23
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We had a good meeting at Buffalo, on Sunday to kick off our “Common Sense Conservationist” membership drive. We had representatives from Owensville, Ellington, Farmington, Conway, …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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7/19/23
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My childhood was in the 1960s and 70s. I spent much of that time playing outside in the dirt with my faithful dog, King. My kid sister, Denise and I built a tree house in a vacant lot behind our …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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8/30/23
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Scanning back issues of the Gasconade County Republican I ran across the following column by my Uncle Tom Warden. Enjoy.
O ut here in these frosty foothills of the Ozark Mountains, the weather …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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12/13/23
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When the Corps of Discovery Expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, met in St. Charles to start their journey up the Missouri River in 1804, the native Americans in the central part of …
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By Dennis Warden, Publisher
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11/1/23
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Jerry McCoy, who is one of the best north Arkansas guides, especially for White River trout, will be at our swap meet on Saturday with all kinds of antique and modern fishing gear and antique lures. …
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By Larry Dablemont, Contributing Columnist
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3/6/24
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The Missouri House of Representatives has approved HB 1481, a significant legislative initiative aimed at bolstering support for law enforcement in their crucial role of maintaining law and order …
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By State Rep. Bennie Cook, Missouri's 143rd District
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4/3/24
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The afternoon of September 30, 2023, came and went with its fair share of drama, including narrowly avoiding a government shutdown and the subsequent ousting of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
One …
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BY GARRETT HAWKINS, President, Missouri Farm Bureau
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11/1/23
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JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri’s Attorney General warns Missourians to be wary of gift card scam as Christmas approaches.
“As we enter the holiday season, I want to educate the …
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12/13/23
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The end of the first quarter of 2024 is at hand. The third meeting of “those sisters” has been completed and will be recorded in the following minutes. Forgive me, I slipped back into the …
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4/10/24
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