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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...
A new face can be seen at the Times office this week, thanks to the Potter Digital Ambassadors Program through the University of Missouri Journalism School, and with that new face comes an upgrade to the Times’ online presence.
Gabriela Velasquez, a graduating senior at the Mizzou J-School in...
Jason Barnett graduated Nov. 23, 2018, from Air Force Basic Military Training at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas. Barnett, a 2018 Dora High School graduate and the son of Brad and Shanna Barnett of Dora, served as an element leader in his squadron. He is currently attending tech...
Chris and Missy Harlin of Gainesville, Missouri are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Abigail Christen, to Alexander Leigh Martin, son of Robert and Terri Martin of Plano, Texas.
Abbi is a graduate of Gainesville High School and The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She is...
An $8,000 cash-only bond has been issued for Jackie L. Wyman, 38, of Gainesville, in connection with an Aug. 24, 2018, high-speed chase. When the chase ended, a pipe with methamphetamine residue was reportedly found inside Wyman’s truck.
Online records indicate Wyman has not yet been arrested in...
Editor’s note: Barbara McGee was a teacher at Gainesville schools from 1967 to her retirement in 1990.
Retired Gainesville teacher Barbara McGee, a woman who impacted countless lives in her 23 years of teaching, died Christmas Day at the age of 81. News of her death spurred dozens of tributes,...
Gainesville residents Len and Sue Modlinski lost their dog, Zeke, last week. But in the process of searching for him, they found a renewed appreciation for their fellow Ozark Countians.
Two-year-old Zeke, a skinny German shepherd, disappeared from the Modlinskis’ home on County Road 806, west of...
Disabled Longrun resident Linda Worner lost her home to a Sunday afternoon fire that was apparently caused by her motorized wheelchair.
Worner’s neighbor, Boyd Garrison, a Theodosia Area Volunteer Fire Department board member, looks out for Worner, who has no vehicle that runs. “I just hate to see...
Ozark County now has two Head Start programs, with the opening Dec. 4, 2018, of a new Head Start in Bakersfield. Ozark Action, Inc., which opened the Bakersfield program, has also operated a Head Start program in Gainesville for decades.
The half-day Bakersfield program came about when a Head Start...
Several candidates have filed to run in the April 2 general municipal election for positions coming open on school, municipal and county boards in Ozark County. The filing deadline is Tuesday, Jan. 15. If the number of candidates equals the number of open positions on these boards, Missouri law...