Arrow Rock News

The Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre continues its 49th season with Jerry Herman's musical "Hello, Dolly!" The show will run Wednesday, July 8, through Saturday, July 18.

Columbia rolls out its annual Fourth of July celebration Saturday night with live music and fireworks at Memorial Stadium.

Arrow Rock's Fourth of July Impromptu Parade has been delighting townsfolk and visitors for more than 20 years, according to a news release from Friends of Arrow Rock.

At Marshall's new downtown association's meeting Monday evening, June 22, Tracy Hartley was chosen to represent the group at Missouri Main Street Connection convention Aug.

Judge Donald L. and Carol A. Barnes, of Sedalia, will celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary with dinner and a musical at the Lyceum Theater in Arrow Rock with their children.

In the final song of "Annie" wealthy businessman Oliver Warbucks croons, "I know the Depression's depressing ... But we'll get a new deal for Christmas this year." We no longer use the word "depression" to describe present economic hard times .

The Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre will open its second production of the season Friday, June 19, and will include a young Marshall actor in the cast.

Standing from left to right, Ryan Stone and Dustin Conrad entertain those attending the 50th anniversary celebration of the Friends of Arrow Rock organization.

Kathy Borgman first worked for Friends of Arrow Rock in 1982 as a seasonal tour guide.

Daryl Vaughan first came to Arrow Rock's Lyceum Theater when he was a junior high school student.

The Lyceum Theater in Arrow Rock began its 49th season Wednesday, June 3, with the Broadway musical "Hairspray." This Tony-award winning musical is based on the 1988 John Waters film of the same name and has since been adapted into a movie starring John Travolta and Zac Efron, among others.

Arrow Rock Postmaster Tempe McGlaughlin does so much more than sort mail. In her spare time, she knits and weaves articles of clothing, "adopts" international students from Missouri Valley College, sings soprano in the Marshall Community Chorus and plays piano, mandolin and guitar.

Although he has a full-time job in Marshall, Jon Burge has kept hogs on his family's farm, located just one-half mile south of Arrow Rock State Historic site, since high school.

Lyceum Theatre Managing Director Steve Bertani, left, and Artistic Director Quin Gresham pose beneath the new sign that welcomes patrons to the theater.

Actors Daryl Vaughan, left, David Hemsley Caldwell and Annie Funke practice a scene from "Hairspray," the opening play of the 49th season at the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre.

Saline County Sheriff Wally George released the name early Thursday, May 28, of a woman whose body was found Wednesday, May 27, at an Arrow Rock camp site.

The old issue of concentrated animal feeding operations is has new concerns in the village of Arrow Rock.

About 15 area actors -- and one mid-Missouri dog -- will be part of the Lyceum Theatre summer 2009 company, Artistic Director Quin Gresham told patrons and the board of directors at the theatre's annual season preview tea on Sunday evening, May 3. Additional actors, numbering about 70, will be brought in from across the country to create "a really ...

Eight families have returned to their homes after emergency officials evacuated them when a pipeline exploded around 9 p.m. Wednesday north of Rocheport.

Local Arrow Rock resident wants to reassure the community his operation does not compare to previous, controversial issues.