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Gainesville's Brodie Chapman was named to the Class 2 District 4 all-district team.
The Gainesville Bulldogs defeated the Sparta Trojans 51-46 on Monday, Feb. 19, in the first round of the Class 2 District 4 tournament held at Norwood High School. Brandon Poe led the scoring for the Bulldogs with 18 points, followed by Jaxon Britt with 14 and Brodie Chapman with 10. Wyatt Wilson...

Gainesville seniors Shelby Smith, left, and Aspyn Britt were named to the Class 2 District 4 all-district team.
The Gainesville Lady Bulldogs’ season came to an end Tuesday, Feb. 20, when they lost to Fordland 39-34 in the semifinal round of the Class 2 District 4 tournament at Norwood. Gaines-ville was hoping to avenge a previous 34-point loss and advance to the championship round of the tournament, but...

Vincent Anderson and Carol Silvey will be two of the presenters at the Ozark County Historium’s first Native American Day program set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 6. The program is free and open to everyone.
The Ozark County Historium will host its first Native American Day, offering a variety of activities from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 6. The event will include three presentations: Carol Bell Silvey of West Plains, a former instructor at Missouri State University-West Plains, will begin with a...
Tecumseh resident Robert Marshall, 24, had minor injuries, and West Plains resident Marissa Guerrero, 34, sustained moderate injuries in a two-vehicle crash Feb. 23 on Highway 160 in South Fork.According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol online crash report, Guerrero was stopped in the roadway...
Tali Rose of Gainesville is one of the candidates in Southwest Baptist University’s “Mr. and Miss Southwest” pageant, an annual tradition that honors one male and one female student who represent the SBU Bearcat family for the coming year. This year’s pageant is set for 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 2,...

Photo courtesy Jerry Luna
This bridge over Pine Creek on County Road 314, which connects Highways AA and FF, will be closed through March 13 as repairs are made, says Ozark County Eastern Commissioner Gary Collins. The county has been waiting for a predicted stretch of warm weather to pour a new concrete top on the bridge,...

Chief deputy clerk Sarah Knight prepares candidate application packets at the Ozark County Clerk’s office Tuesday morning to hand out to those filing for the Aug. 7 primary election. The filing period continues until 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 27. Times photo / Jessi Dreckman.
Candidate filing for the Aug. 7 primary election began at 8 a.m. Tuesday. While in the recent past candidates sometimes lined up outside the Ozark County Clerk’s office hoping to be first to file so that their name was listed first on the ballot, that practice no longer holds. Now, according to the...
The Peitz Cancer Support House in Mountain Home, Arkansas, will host a colorectal cancer discussion  at 10 a.m. Friday, March 2, in the Knox Community Room at the Donald W. Reynolds Library serving Baxter County. The event will include information about risk factors, screening recommendations,...
Members of Sampson Masonic Lodge #298 in Theodosia will serve their regular first Saturday of the month community breakfast from 7 to 10 a.m. March 3 at the lodge on Highway 160 next to Lutie School in Theodosia. The menu includes scrambled eggs, sausage, biscuits and gravy, pancakes, waffles, ...

Mareshah Taber
Mareshah Taber, former owner of The Cellular Connection in Gainesville, an authorized Verizon store that closed in July 2017, has reopened the storefront located on First Street next to Bullseye. The new store, Taber Communications, opened Tuesday. The privately owned business, which is...

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