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Rodney S. Traeger, M.D., has joined the medical staff at Baxter Regional Urology Clinic in Mountain Home, Arkansas, and will be working there with Dr. Daniel Decker and nurse practitioner Katie Hutchens. Traeger attended the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and completed a general...
U.S. Air Force Airman Austin Davis graduated recently from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio, Texas. Davis completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness and basic...
A lightning strike during a passing thunderstorm Sunday morning knocked out radio communications at the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office, took out phone lines and zapped an office copier machine. Electrical power automatically switched over to the building’s gas-powered emergency generator, according...
Sampson Masonic Lodge #298 in Theodosia will conduct its fourth annual American flag retirement ceremony beginning at noon Saturday, June 30, at the lodge located on Highway 160 next to Lutie School. An Army color guard is scheduled to help open and close the ceremony, and Missouri State Sen. Mike...
Bull Shoals Lake earned top marks in Ozarks Water Watch’s recently released 10th annual “Status of the Watershed Report.”The report, a summary of data from 12 monitoring projects, is designed to answer the question, “How’s the water?” in the Upper White River basin in southwest Missouri and...
A local working group charged with identifying local priority resource concerns and providing input about program criteria to the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday, July 12, at the Ozark County Soil and Water Conservation Department office on North Main Street...
Ozarks Medical Center will offer free athletic physicals for area student athletes from 4:30 to 8 p.m. Thurs-day, July 19, at the Shaw Medical Building, across from the main entrance of the hospital at 1100 Kentucky Avenue in West Plains.Participants are encouraged to arrive during these specific...
Jentry Harley, 8, was named Youth Reserve Grand Champion recently in the 11 and under category of the Missouri Fox Trotting Horse Breed Association’s 2018 spring show in Ava. Jentry has been showing Missouri Fox Trotters for a year and a half, and this was only her fourth time to compete in an...
Two informational events are planned be-fore the upcoming Aug. 7 primary.The Gainesville R-5 Board of Education will host an informational meeting on Proposition Gainesville Bulldogs at 7 p.m. Monday, July 16, in the high school library. Food and re-freshments will be served.A “Meet the Candidates...
Government offices and many businesses, including banks and post offices, will be closed Tuesday, July 4, in observance of the Fourth of July holiday. The Gainesville license office, the Ozark County Volunteer Library, Ozark County Health Department and The Center will also be closed Wednesday...