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The National Guard was back in Gainesville this week to assist the Ozark County Health Department in conducting a mass drive-thru covid-19 vaccination clinic Tuesday in the parking lot of Gainesville Church of Christ. The Guard was here Dec. 14 for a mass testing clinic held in the Gainesville...
Gainesville High School senior Elizabeth Kinworthy was honored Saturday, Feb. 13, during the Lady Bulldogs’ home game against Fordland for scoring 1,000 points in her high school career. She is shown with GHS head coach Lance West, who presented her with a photo collage by Karla Smith and a...
The Gainesville High School Bulldogs varsity basketball team hosted Mansfield on Friday, Feb. 12, and Fordland on Saturday, Feb. 13, and added two wins to their season record, bringing it to 17-7.
GHS junior Bryce Hambelton led the scoring in the 55-45 victory over the Mansfield Lions. “This was a...
Mountain Home, Arkansas, resident Timothy Aaron Liveley, 40, has been charged with four class D felonies in Ozark County in connection with a string of alleged crimes last fall.
Four separate warrants, including three warrants with $1,500 cash-only bonds and another with a $2,500 cash-only bond,...
Bakersfield resident Jeremy Greydan Rhoads, 18, was arrested in Ozark County at 7:02 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, on an outstanding Morris County, Kansas, warrant in which the teen is charged with sexual exploitation of a minor.
The probable cause statement says that Ozark County Sheriff’s Deputy Seth...
By Sid Pierce, Reed Springs, Special to the Times
Editor's note: This is one of the stories to be included in the personal memoir now being assembled by Ozark County native Sid Pierce, a Navy veteran, retired teacher and Branson sound technician who for many years traveled the world with country...
Absentee voting begins Tuesday, Feb. 23, for the April 6 general municipal election. Only one of Ozark County’s three municipalities, Gainesville, and two of its five school districts, Dora and Thornfield, will hold elections that day.
Elected positions are coming open on all five Ozark County...
With a combined leftover balance and expected revenue totaling $5.8 million and anticipated expenditures clocking in at $5.1 million, Ozark County’s 2021 budget is the largest in the county’s history.
The uptick in sales tax revenue from 2020 and expected revenue for the coming year meant there...
Like much of the country, Ozark County is shivering through a massive winter weather system this week that on Monday left many local areas buried beneath a heavy blanket of snow and most highways and county roadways completely covered despite the best road-clearing efforts of the Missouri...
Chantel Drake, 31, of West Plains, is facing a class D felony charge of tampering with a motor vehicle in connection with a Feb. 1 incident in which she reportedly stole a vehicle from Howell County and engaged in a high-speed pursuit with Baxter County, Arkansas, and Ozark County sheriff’s...