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The boards of 11 Ozark County entities – schools, municipalities and public agencies – have positions coming open this spring, but only one, the Dora R-III School District, will hold an election on April 2, the state’s general municipal election day.  Missouri law specifies that an election doesn’t...

Ryan Poe and his surgeon at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Dr. Aaron Abarbanell, who told Mark and Laurie Poe that, during the complicated surgery to repair Ryan’s staph-infected heart valve, “Something came over me. I just felt driven to give it my best shot.”
On Dec. 31, as 14-year-old Ryan Poe, a healthy ninth-grader at Gainesville Junior High, practiced with his teammates on the school’s JV basketball team, he and his parents had no way of knowing that, one week later, on Jan. 7, Ryan would be at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, his life – and his heart...
Banks and most government offices will be closed Monday, Jan. 21, in recognition of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.The Ozark County Courthouse will be closed; the Ozark County Commission will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, instead of its regular Monday meeting day. Gainesville City Hall, The...

Ray Grisham, with Ray Grisham Construction Concrete, operates an excavator Monday as he and Greg Simpson, with Simpson Concrete, center, and employee Jared Haas, right, begin the work to remodel Gainesville’s Town & Country Supermarket. The men would later fill the excavated tracks with concrete as the first steps in creating the floor and walls of a big new freezer and cooler area that will become part of the completely remodeled building.
Work started Monday on the major remodeling project that will give Gainesville’s Town & Country Supermarket a new appearance inside and out, representing what Town & Country spokesman Matt Montgomery called “a significant investment in the store and thus the community in which we are...
The county budget was the main topic of conversation at this week’s meeting of the Ozark County Commissioners. Ozark County Clerk Brian Wise told the commissioners he had received the first sales tax numbers for the year (collected in December 2018), and he said the county is starting 2019 “in the...

H.K Silvey
 Volunteers at the Ozark County Historium are planning a new series of events for 2019 called Coffee and Conversation, with the first one coming up at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 24.This first “conversation” will feature a group of folks who have spent their lives in the Theodosia/Ocie area, including H...

Brandon Guidry
Thornfield resident Brandon Guidry, 35, pleaded guilty Jan. 9 before Circuit Judge Craig Carter to abuse of a child and possession of methamphetamine and was sentenced to three years in the Missouri Department of Corrections. The sentence was ordered to run concurrently with another case Guidry is...

A New Year’s Day fire in 2018 destroyed this older rock-faced home on the Howards Ridge farm owned by Stan and Janet Taber of Almartha. Sam Overturf, who was renting the house, was not home when the fire started. Volunteers from six area fire departments responded to the blaze, working several hours in bone-chilling, sub-freezing temperatures to contain the fire and keep it from spreading to nearby hay barns and other structures.
Winter’s icy breath made its way across the hills and hollers last weekend, and the cooler temperatures are likely here to stay awhile. With the cold weather comes the need to keep warm, many times in ways that can create a fire danger. Last year five of the 12 major fires reported by the Ozark...

On Jan. 9. Gainesville VFD and several other departments responded to a fire call at the former Wagon Wheel Court apartments, which are now owned by a bank and are reportedly vacant. Firefighters put out the fire, located in the front apartment, before the building became fully engulfed.
Authorities are investigating an arson fire - the second in the course of a year - at the former Wagon Wheel Apartments on Shady Oaks Circle off Highway 181 in Gainesville.The timing of the most recent fire on Jan. 8 is interesting because it occurred just about a year after an adjacent Wagon Wheel...

While Ralston served as a volunteer firefighter with Timber Knob VFD, he was also a member of the Ozark County Honor Guard, which marches in local parades and appears at fire service ceremonial functions.
An Ozark County volunteer fire department and local family members are mourning the death of a former volunteer firefighter, Cody Ralston, 28, who died Jan. 8 in a Boone County, Arkansas, structure fire. Ralston, who served with Timber Knob Volunteer Fire Department in 2015 and 2016, was at a house...

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