Taneyville News

I learned some unusual things from Taneyville fur trapper Jack "Chirp" Essary, who has been catching and skinning critters since he was a kid.

The day after the Presidential Inauguration and the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, someone hung a yard ornament of a black child from the outside entryway of the Taneyville School.

A man from Taneyville was injured in a one-car crash early this morning, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

'Tis a privilege to live in a community where people are generous year-round -- but it is especially appreciated at this time of year.

Pictured is four generations of the Blake family that gathered in Missouri in August: Jon Blake, grandfather, of Oswego, Brenten Blake, father, of Taneyville, Mo.