Teaching school-age children about Route 66 will be an increased focus of the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society, the board agreed Tuesday at its monthly meeting.
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The news you’ve been waiting for! The fifth annual Central Missouri Route 66 Yard Sale will be Friday, Aug. 4, and Saturday, Aug. 5, the same weekend as in prior years.
Our final Wall of Fame recipient is the group of community leaders who successfully campaigned for “The Direct Route” in Jefferson City in 1922. They include I.T. Curry, W.M. Hawkins, Bert Henderson, Andrew Rader, Fred D. Harris, Phil M. Donnelly, L.C. Mayfield and the Lebanon School Band.
The Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society grew out of a festival in Lebanon celebrating the 75th birthday of Route 66 on Sept. 8, 2001. That first Route 66 Festival was the idea of Bill Wheeler, then the event coordinator for the Kenneth E. Cowan Civic Center, and a local amateur-radio club.
If you want to see a really big thing in the way of improvement, drive out to the home of Col. A.T. Nelson, where a truly laudable undertaking is in process of development.
A three-generation family that operated a gas station for seven decades, a husband and wife who welcomed guests into their tourist home for 40 years, and the community leaders who in 1922 successfully campaigned for the future Route 66 to be routed through Lebanon are the newest members of t…
A well-known bluegrass band has been added to the musical lineup of the 2023 Lebanon Route 6…
The Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society saluted the upcoming Route 66 Festival's sponsor…
Alva Starnes of Starnes Auto Body and Glass was honored by the Lebanon-Laclede County Route …
The Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society board Tuesday pledged $1,000 toward stabilizing …
Roamin' Rich Dinkela, president of the Route 66 Association of Missouri voiced optimism that…
Ownership of the century-old Route 66 Gasconade River Bridge at Hazelgreen could transfer to…
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