Top
About The Observer

It started as a dinner table discussion decades ago. Six kids. Six opinions. Six trajectories. Now, there are six-plus small businesses and lots of  experience, a fair amount of knowledge, and plenty of opinion to share as well as goods and services to sell.

Thanks for visiting The Styron Observer & Commercial Appeal, an online magazine featuring the businesses and professions of Jane, Emery, Harry, John, Sam, and Kevin Styron. We also invite Styrons and relatives in business everywhere to promote their own enterprises here, or join this forum for sharing knowledge, experience, opinion, and friendship.….learn more

Six Siblings
Search

Subscribe
Guest Book
Find Us on Facebook
Helpful Links
Login

Entries in River Hills Traveler (4)

Tuesday
09Mar2010

March Traveler will incite spring fever

DateTuesday, March 9, 2010 at 9:55PM

The March 2010 issue of

River Hills Traveler
Get into spring!

Here’s a summary of stories in the March issue of River Hills Traveler:

Crappie can be found on Clearwater in March — Bob Todd
Bob and Roy Halbert follow clouds of shad along the old Black River channel in Clearwater Lake to catch all the crappie they cared to clean.
Choke tube wins friends, sales for SE Missouri hunters — Steve Felgenhauer
Machinists and hunters Stuart Ruehling and Mike Ponder developed a choke tube to fill in slow times at their Frohna shop. Their product, marketed under the name, Indian Creek Shooting Systems, shows up consistently in shooting championships, and has led to friendships with big name hunters such as Walter Parrott.
Change tactics or else… — Bill Cooper
Turkey numbers are down from historic highs and it takes more effort these days to bag a wise old Ozarks gobbler. Bill offers five field-tested tactics to improve your turkey hunting success.
Teamwork key to safety at whitewater event — Becky Allgier Tinsley
Becky grew up on the hog farm next to Millstream Gardens, where the Missouri Whitewater Championships are held each March, but she didn’t see behind the scenes of the races until she covered them as a writer and photographer. Tinsley interview race officials to learn how safety is emphasized in an inherently dangerous activity.

Click to read more ...

by AuthorThe Styron Observer | CommentPost a Comment
| | Print ArticlePrint Article |
tagged , , , , , , , , ,
Tuesday
05May2009

May is bustin' out all over

DateTuesday, May 5, 2009 at 12:30PM

This is the month anglers have been waiting for, when the weather breaks and they can get on Missouri’s streams and lakes in earnest. Accordingly, May’s Traveler has nearly eight pages of fishing stories and information, from Bob Todd’s take on spring and summer fishing seasons to Bill Cooper’s guides to taking bluegill on flyrods and angling on the Meramec to Tim Huffman’s tips on keeping your tackle organized. Todd also accounts for a not-so-fruitful outing on Lake Wappapello with Dale Kipp. They didn’t get many fish but Bob turned in a lovely photo of the sunrise on the lake.

Don Rathert weighs in with a story about taking his brother and a friend after trout at Montauk as a payback for the ocean-fishing trips his brother has provided.Howard Helgenberg describes a perfect catfishing outing that includes free worms from the sidewalk and bugless weather. John Meacham interviews Springfield-area fishing expert and radio host Scott Berry on techniques for spawning and post-spawning bass.

But fishing is just the beginning of Traveler’s coverage. We’re known for our variety of Missouri outdoor coverage. Here’s some of the other pieces in May’s Traveler:

Click to read more ...

by AuthorEmery Styron | CommentPost a Comment
| | Print ArticlePrint Article |
tagged , , , , , , , , ,
Friday
13Mar2009

Web 2.0 is about interaction

DateFriday, March 13, 2009 at 12:19PM

River Hills Traveler is now on Twitter. Click the image to visit their page and read below to find out why they joined.

By Emery Styron

The internet has changed dramatically in its brief life. Web 1.0 was about one-way communication. Web 2.0 is about interactivity. So says Heather Mansfield, owner of DIOSA Communications, and a Springfield, MO, native with expertise in using social networking websites to help non-profit organizations advance their online communications and development strategies.

Mansfield spoke at the Missouri Association of Publications Summit in Columbia, MO, last week, where she advised magazines and newsletters to get with the program to reach the vast audiences using Twitter, My Space, You Tube, Facebook and other social networking websites.

Using these sites to promote your business is a necessary skill set in today’s business world, she said. People with this skill set can be valuable to businesses and have employability in  this economy. She advised having someone spend at least 10 hours per week promoting on these sites.

A few stats she tossed out: 25% of Americans log into MySpace monthly. 85% of its users are 35 to 54 years old. 65% of Facebook users make $60,000 or more per year.

If you can only use one social networking site, use Twitter because it’s the easiest, she advised. She said she spends just 10 minutes a day with it. “Be friendly. Be nice. You’ll grow faster,” she says. Sounds like good manners are just as important on the web as in person.

Traveler is taking her advice. We’ve opened a Twitter account. Come on board and send us a tweet!

by AuthorEmery Styron | CommentPost a Comment
| | Print ArticlePrint Article |
tagged , , , ,
Saturday
21Feb2009

Richard Styron: Made of Courage

DateSaturday, February 21, 2009 at 9:35AM

More Ozark nature photos available at River Hills TravelerCheck out this photo of Harry’s son Richard Styron riding his kayak down a 35-foot waterfall on Dry Fork Creek, a tributary of the Buffalo River in Arkansas, during flood stage. This picture is featured on the River Hills Traveler homepage this month. Neither The Styron Observer nor Traveler recommends that any of our readers attempt this feat!

by AuthorThe Styron Observer | CommentPost a Comment
| | Print ArticlePrint Article |
tagged , , , , , ,