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Dakota Metz
Dakota Metz, 22, of Carrolton, Mississippi, was given a suspended imposition of sentence and placed on supervised probation for a term of five years before Circuit Judge Craig Carter during the April 3 session of Ozark County Law Day.  The sentence came after Metz pleaded guilty to two counts of...

Missouri House 155th District Rep. Karla Eslinger, left, on Friday delivered a House of Representatives resolution recognizing Thom Embach, right, owner of Harlin Heights Apartments in Gainesville, for his efforts to improve the apartment complex in his 20-plus years of ownership. Harlin Heights manager Donnis Taylor, center, organized a lunch and reception for the event.
Missouri House 155th District Rep, Karla Eslinger of Wasola on Friday presented Thomas “Thom” E. Embach, owner of Gainesville’s Harlin Heights Apartments, with a Missouri State House of Representative resolution. The resolution recognizes Embach, a Mountain Home, Arkansas, resident, for his efforts...

Times photo/Norene Prososki April Wilson and her husband Jon, right, and their sons Wyatt, left, and Westin, have developed a successful “managed grazing system” on their farm near the Ozark-Douglas county line.
One of the practices the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service strongly recommends for livestock producers is a managed grazing system, a practice that is managed for both the benefit of the livestock and the forage. Livestock graze in each pasture long enough to harvest the forage but are...

Jodi Burns
Bakersfield Middle School science teacher Jodi Burns has been offered a summer fellowship at Penn State University’s Center for Nanoscale Science and the Department of Physics. The 2019 Interdisciplinary Materials Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program is a six-week, full-time residential...

Photo courtesy Ed Doiron A new Dollar General opened last week at 4163 Highway 101 in Bakersfield. A grand opening event is set for Saturday, May 4.
The new Dollar General store in Bakersfield has opened and will celebrate with a grand opening event to be held Saturday, May 4, when free gift cards will be given to the first 50 adult customers. Tote bags will be handed out to the first 200 adult customers that day.  The store is open from 8 a.m...

Ozark County jailer Jeffrey Lane, shown here in jail pod A, is set to graduate from the sheriff’s academy in May. Currently Lane and one other full-time jailer staff the county’s 24-bed jail. With the additional funds expected to be generated from a new Ozark-Greene County prisoner housing contract, Ozark County officials hope the sheriff’s department can employ at least one more full-time jailer and one additional full-time deputy.
New agreement expected to bring in additional income for sheriff’s department and jail The ink is fresh on a prisoner housing contract between Ozark and Greene Counties that  could bring as much as $200,000 for the county in the coming year.  “It’s a no-lose situation for the sheriff’s department...
Everette E. Collins, 43, of Dora, died Thursday, April 25, in a rollover accident on Highway 14, about seven miles northeast of Dora, in Douglas County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, filed by MSHP Cpl. N. J. Britt, says the accident occurred at 5 a.m. when Collins, driving a 1996...

Times photo/Norene Prososki April Wilson and her husband Jon, right, and their sons Wyatt, left, and Westin, have developed a successful “managed grazing system” on their farm near the Ozark-Douglas county line.
One of the practices the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service strongly recommends for livestock producers is a managed grazing system, a practice that is managed for both the benefit of the livestock and the forage. Livestock graze in each pasture long enough to harvest the forage but are...

Jodi Burns
Bakersfield Middle School science teacher Jodi Burns has been offered a summer fellowship at Penn State University’s Center for Nanoscale Science and the Department of Physics. The 2019 Interdisciplinary Materials Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program is a six-week, full-time residential...

Dakota Metz
Dakota Metz, 22, of Carrolton, Mississippi, was given a suspended imposition of sentence and placed on supervised probation for a term of five years before Circuit Judge Craig Carter during the April 3 session of Ozark County Law Day.  The sentence came after Metz pleaded guilty to two counts of...

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