You can actually sign up for text alerts right now on our site. On Tuesday I hinted that this was coming, but I didn't want to let the cat out of the bag too early, so to speak.

But for the past few days I, along with a "crack team" of people here at the Missourian, have been working on getting this service up and running. Our thinking — have the capability in time for the football season.

We've achieved that, and you can get text messages of scores for the six high school football teams we cover — Cape Central, Jackson, Chaffee, St. Vincent, Scott City and Perryville — and Southeast Missouri State University.

The signup is easy, but if you have any problems, let me know.

Something I find very useful about this service is the severe weather alerts. If you sign up for those, you'll actually get text messages straight from the National Weather Service when they're issued. Pretty cool, and potentially life saving.

Information delivery keeps changing, and we're hoping to keep pace. So check out the service, and give me any feedback you have.

Water quality poll

In Tuesday's blog I posted a poll asking readers how good their water is. Very few responses, but I have to post the results, right?

Here they are, as of 4:15 p.m. Wedesnday:

Question: How is your water quality?

• Mine is great.: 32.1% (9 votes)
• It's OK, but could be better.: 32.1% (9 votes)
• My water is terrible.: 14.3% (4 votes)
• It's undrinkable.: 21.4% (6 votes)