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Friday, April 20, Gary and I got to Cox South Hospital at 5 a.m. to have my surgery. I had a laproscopic total hysterectomy, robot assisted. No cancer, no driving for two weeks, no lifting for six weeks. I am thankful for all who prayed for me.I had a surprise visitor Friday while I was in the...
MenusWednesday, May 9: chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy country-blend vegetables, fresh-baked roll, butterscotch brownies. Thursday, May 10: pork ribs, sweet potato, coleslaw, homestyle biscuit, poke cake. Friday, May 11: fried fish, brown beans, coleslaw, cornbread, cherry cobbler....
When the North Fork of the White River flooded last year, damaging or destroying several homes on James Lane, a small community of riverside homes near Dawt, many of the residents there fled to the home of their neighbors, Dan and Caroline Israel. “I think for a while there were 18 people here,”...
When the bad dreams come, Katie Hoversen is back in the water, clinging to the fencepost.“I still dream about it,” the Tecumseh resident said recently, a year after the home she shared with her husband, Ted, and their daughter Ryia, was swept away in the historic flood on the North Fork of the...
Theodosia’s 2018 Sizzling Summer Kickoff will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 26, next to Cash Saver Pantry on Highway 160 in Theodosia.The Theodosia Area Chamber of Commerce will sellburgers and brats, and organizers said a band will perform to entertain those attending. Games for...
The owners of a large group of Locost cars, homebuilt sports cars build loosley after the Lotus/Caterham 7 cars built in the 1950s and 1960s, will be spinning their way through Ozark County Friday and Saturday. The Midwest Gathering of the Se7ens, an annual event that gathers Locost car owners from...
The fourth annual Ozark County Homegrown and Homemade Festival brought vendors, shoppers and music to the west side of the Gainesville square Saturday. A wide variety of Ozark County goods were offered for purchase, including birdhouses and birdfeeders, watercolors, honey, fresh greens, plants,...
Ozark County Presiding Commissioner John Turner and Western District Commissioner Greg Donley recently attended the Missouri Association of Counties Legislative Conference in Jefferson City, where an estimated 150-200 county commissioners, sheriffs, county clerks, county treasurers and others...
One Ozark Countian died and several area residents were injured in these recent crashes on roadways in or near Ozark County.
Mountain Home teen hospitalized Autumn McFarland, 16, of Mountain Home, Arkansas, was transported to Baxter Regional Medical Center after sustaining moderate injuries in a...
The flood that ravaged Ozark County a year ago over the April 28-30 weekend “was terrible, terrible, awful,” Ozark County Presiding Commissioner John Turner said last week at the commissioners’ regular Monday morning meeting. “Hopefully, we won’t see anything like it in our lifetimes.”But even...