Factory Merchants Branson is proud to announce three new outlet stores under their “red roofs”.

Crocs
Building 6
Upper Level

Jones New York
Building 9
Upper Level

Christmas Decor
Building 5
Upper Level

Be sure to check out the hottest new stores in Branson!
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It’s time to make next year’s travel plans with the 2008 Official Missouri Vacation Planner, just released by Missouri Tourism. More than 180 pages detail the state’s comprehensive roster of attractions, vacation activities and accommodations, from aquariums to zoos and everything between. It’s Missouri top to bottom – no other publication compares.

Special sections in the 2008 Planner spotlight Kansas City’s midtown-to-downtown makeover and celebrate 10 select communities…[more]

So what are your plans for ringing in 2008? What – you don’t have any?? Well you’ve definitely come to the right place. St. Louis has plenty of places
to go and things to do during the New Year’s holiday, whether you’re looking to celebrate with family and friends or get away from it all and enjoy some downtime before getting things started again in the New Year.[more]

(ST. LOUIS): The Missouri Botanical Garden will honor Black History Month with an extended weekend of activities dedicated to Missouri-born scientist Dr. George Washington Carver.

Learn about this historical figure during Carver Days, held Saturday through Monday, Feb. 16
through 18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.

Saturday at 11 a.m., KMOV-TV anchor Vickie Newton will read a Carver-inspired story in the…[more]

St. Louis offers so much for kids that the Top 10 list of things to do with them on a vacation here has just become the Top 12.  Everywhere you look, there’s plenty to enthrall, entrance and excite kids—and much of it is free. Take kids to visit some cities, and you’re scrambling to find things to do that appeal to them.

Take them to St. Louis, and…[more]

Springfield, Mo.—Springfield soon will have a new Tourist Information Center thanks in part to a $350,000 gift from Jim D. Morris.

Morris, owner of Morris Oil Co., is selling about one acre of land on the southwest corner of U.S. 65 and Chestnut Expressway well below its appraised value of $600,000 to Destination Springfield, Inc., a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) corporation.

Destination Springfield, a subsidiary of…[more]

The Springfield-Greene County Park Board will host a grand-opening event at 10 a.m., Friday, Dec. 14, for the Rutledge-Wilson Farm Community Park, 3825 West Farm Road 146.

The 207-acre Farm Park is the first of its kind in the area. Its features include: A 2,060-square-foot visitors center, with public restrooms, gift shop and offices; 4,112-square-foot domestic animal barn with eight stalls; veterinarian office; tack, hay, and feed storage…[more]

Jefferson City, Mo. — It’s time to make next year’s travel plans with the 2008 Official Missouri Vacation Planner, just released by Missouri Tourism. More than 180 pages detail the state’s comprehensive roster of attractions, vacation activities and accommodations, from aquariums to zoos and everything between. It’s Missouri top to bottom – no other publication compares.

Special sections in the 2008 Planner spotlight Kansas City’s midtown-to-downtown makeover and…[more]

* St. Louis’ McDonnell Douglas Corporation, now Boeing, designed and built the space capsule that carried the first astronauts into space in the 1960’s when the company was known as McDonnell Aircraft.
* The Eads Bridge, completed in 1874 over the Mississippi River, was the first arched steel truss bridge in the world. When it was first proposed, it was scoffed at as impossible to build.
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(ST. LOUIS): The Missouri Botanical Garden’s annual orchid show in warm, luscious full
bloom is a six-week sensual delight for winter-weary Midwesterners. See up to 800 rare, fragrant
beauties at once from one of the world’s premier collections throughout the floral display hall. It
opens Feb. 2…[more]