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Cindy Ragland, one of Peggy and Clint Donahue's James Lane neighbors, lost everything in the 2017 flood. Her entire house disappeared in the beautiful river she loved when it became a rushing, overwhelming torrent of debris. Now, a year later, she still has nothing but the foundation where her home...
Drug court commissioner to speak at May 5 event at Gainesville Church of Christ
Peggy Davis, drug court commissioner for the 31st Circuit Court in Greene County, will be the speaker at a drug epidemic informational meeting to be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at the Gainesville Church of Christ...
Editor’s note: This is one of several updates we’ll share this week and next recounting survivors’ recovery from last year’s historic flood on the weekend of April 29-30, 2017. See additional story, page 16.
Carpenters and roofers were working at Clint and Peggy Donahue’s vacation house on James...
Gainesville Church of Christ preacher Halbert Smith wasn’t surprised to see eight students wearing FFA jackets in his congregation Sunday. His wife, Vicki, has been helping train the Gainesville High School FFA parliamentary procedure team that will soon be participating in the upcoming state...
Last week’s Friday the 13th ended with an evening of challenges that Noble residents Ashley and Markus Thomas are unlikely to forget.Friday night, they were at Baxter Cinema in Mountain Home, Arkansas, watching the movie “A Quiet Place” when “everyone’s cell phones started going off with the...
This article is reprinted with permission from The Baxter Bulletin, Mountain Home, Arkansas.
Eldon Cooper doesn’t consider himself lucky to be alive. This despite being trapped inside the cab of a tractor upside down, submerged in a frigid pond on his Clarkridge, Arkansas, property for more than...
Connie Danielson, 56, of Drury, and Edward Moore, 52, of Lexington, Kentucky, were taken by an Ava ambulance service to Cox South Hospital in Springfield Sunday with serious injuries sustained in a single-vehicle crash on Highway 95 near Bell Bridge southeast of Rockbridge. First responders with...
Barry Scott Brown, 54, of Caulfield is currently being held in the Ozark County Jail on a $100,000 cash only bond after allegedly holding his wife at gunpoint with a shotgun and holding her 9-year-old son at gunpoint with an "Uzi-type firearm." Brown also reportedly discharged the shotgun once...
Plans are underway for the Gainesville Lions Club’s 31st annual auction and sportsman raffle, to be held Friday, April 20, at Gainesville High School. This year’s “sportsman’s raffle,” held in conjunction with the auction, includes 14 firearms, a gun safe, a kayak, a utility trailer, game feeder...
A Bakersfield man died early Sunday morning in a fire that swept through his motorhome parked on Zastrow Lane off Highway 142.The body of Charles Fienhold, 61, was found in the burned-out motorhome that served as Fienhold’s permanent residence, said Bakersfield Volunteer Fire Department chief Greg...