Rockaway Beach News

Rockaway Beach has been approved to receive a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant for a water systems improvement project, according to the Missouri Department of Economic Development.

Dear Rockaway Chamber of Commerce, No one in the legitimate sanctuary community considers GREEN aka National Tiger Sanctuary to be a tiger sanctuary.

The Rockaway Beach Chamber of Commerce will host a special meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the community center in city hall to announce plans for a tiger sanctuary.

A Branson woman was killed and a Rockaway Beach woman was injured after a two-car crash Saturday in Taney County.

Though she lives in Springfield, when reader Lori Johnson visits her good friends in Forsyth, she knows she'll most likely dine at La Pizza Cellar in Rockaway Beach.

Bikers and Babes at the Beach 2009? Sounds like a party! The event in downtown Rockaway Beach -- billed as a fundraiser for Bikers Against Child Abuse -- will include tattoo contests, a poker run, raffles, bike shows and live music.

A child from Texas suffered moderate injuries Friday after she was run over by a golf cart in Stone County.

Erica Dixon volunteered to help during a street count of homeless people in Taney County last summer.

Friday, June 12, 2009 Nixon Halts Rockaway Beach Police Funding

Gov. Jay Nixon has directed Attorney General Chris Koster to cut off state funding for the Rockaway Beach Police Department.

Rockaway Beach was one of 12 law enforcement entities listed as "non-compliant" in the annual Missouri Vehicle Stop report issued on June 1st. Gov. Nixon has ordered that funding be stopped for all those who did not comply.

Rockaway Beach was the only Ozarks-area department that was non-compliant.

"Missouri has been at the forefront of collecting and reporting data about traffic stops, and these reports have served as the basis for constructive communications between law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve," Gov. Nixon said in a statement. "The vast majority of law enforcement agencies in Missouri have complied with the reporting requirements of the law since it took effect. This is a law we take seriously, and the consequences for not complying are clear."

Missouri's racial profiling report began in 2000.

By TERESA BREWER

According to Don Hearon, CEO of Hearon Media, from Las Vegas NV, artists from all over the country are expected to attend and perform the first annual Red, White and Blues Festival June 20th in Lebanon TN, in order to support the national effort to help Michele Seidman, founder of National Women in Blues Festival in Willmington North Carolina, which has

By TERESSA "BLUESBABE" BREWER

The world of blues/roots music will never be quite the same without it's Queen, KoKo Taylor, who passed away Wednesday June 3rd, at the age of 80 from complication from surgery.

She opened the doors for the rest of us Women in Blues, to say the very least.

When I first met her backstage at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas in the early 90's, I was in awe and wanted to be just like her. I knew....

Car junkies will be able to take a trip down memory lane, side-by-side with vintage vehicles like a '58 Ford Retractable Top, a '36 Chevy street rod or a '53 custom Mercury.

Former Rockaway Beach resident, and blues artist Teressa "BluesBabe" Brewer, will be performing at the RED WHITE AND BLUES FESTIVAL, (just outside Nashville) during the All Star Jam and assisting the performers, recording artists, star and blues award winner, songwriter and guitarist Ms. BB Queen and Hearon Media Inc., and it's CEO Kattman with this event for the benefit of their mutual friend and fellow Blues Woman, Michele Seidman, Founder of National Women in Blues Festival in Willmingon N.C., (which has been held off this year due to Michele's illness and the economy), in Lebanon TN, on June 20th, 2009.

Brewer challenges all other blues artists to do the same and asks friends and fans to buy tickets and attend the festival to show their support for Michele, who has given so much of herself without pay for the past four years. This challenge is in the spirit of unity and to assist the needs of Seidman's medical bills and living expenses.

Hearon Media Inc presents the 1st Red White and Blues Festival, June 20th 2009 in Lebanon Tennessee (Just outside Nashville), with a portion of this years proceeds going to support the founder of the National Women in Blues Festival who has been hit hard with no insurance...and major medical needs like so many in our country today. Hearon Media Inc. President and CEO Kattman says, "he is very happy to be part of this mission to support the woman behind Women in Blues."

With the Memorial Day weekend kicking off the beginning of summer, residents in Rockaway Beach are anxious to get their season off to a start with events the first two weekends in June.

A Hollister man was seriously injured this morning in Taney County when he was thrown from his motorcycle, the Missouri Highway Patrol said.

Motorcycle riders will take a Cruisin' Against Bruisin' next month to benefit the Family Violence Center.