News
Workers with West Plains Roofing began work to replace the roof of Gainesville City Hall recently. This photo, taken last Friday, shows the roof in varying degrees of replacement. The section toward the front of the building has the TPO covering applied, the middle section has the old shingles removed but the TPO hasn’t been applied and the section in the back of the building, left in this photo, has the old shingles on.
Workers with West Plains Roofing began work to replace the roof of Gainesville City Hall recently. The roof is being replaced with TPO (thermoplastic polyolefin), a relatively inexpensive roofing material primarily made from recycled rubber. TPO is a common choice for roofing large commercial...
Photo submitted
A benefit auction and contributions for Dalton Durham, a Bakersfield man who was recently diagnosed with cancer, raised more than $42,630. The benefit featured items donated by members of the community and area businesses. The auction itself raised nearly $30,000, and more that $13,000 in cash...
Arthur DeWitt Hall looks at the 2021 Hootin an Hollarin people's choice winning quilt.
This is a last minute reminder that the new check-in day for entering your quilt, wall hanging, table runner or other quilt show piece is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13. The quilt show is in the same building as last year, on the square, next door to Sweet Little Things Bakery. The...
An exciting new event at this year’s Hootin an Hollarin festival is a cornhole tournament. It replaces the Hootin an Hollarin horseshoe pitching contest, which has lacked participation in recent years.
The double elimination tournament-style contest will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, in the...
Kitty’s mother, Joy Ledbetter, second from left, and her friends are pictured here having a good time with their soldier dates during her time in California in 1944. Kitty suspects the photo was staged as a souvenir photo for tourists at the Mexican border.
Nearly a half million people left California last year, some finding a new home and much different life here in the quiet hills of Ozark County. It’s easy to see why.
If earthquakes, fires, smog and traffic jams didn’t get to them, the cost of living did. The median price of a home in 2022 was...
Ozark County’s school resource officers include Dora’s Jeremy McKee, left, Bakersfield’s Wayne Romans, center, and Jeremy Fowler at Lutie.
As an added measure of student and staff safety this school year, Dora and Lutie school districts have made the investment to each hire a certified sheriff’s deputy to serve as a school resource officer.
The two districts join Bakersfield School, which has had a SRO for several years.
Jeremy McKee...
This photo of last year's pull was taken by Gainesville resident Renee Schmucker.
Hold on to your tailpipes, the high-revving truck pulls are coming to Gainesville.
WW Promotions will host the wildly popular truck pulls at 7 p.m. Saturday night at the Gainesville Saddle Club Arena. The event was planned for earlier in the year, but was postponed due to heavy rains.
Christine...
This photo was taken during the 2019 Bakersfest. Times photo/Bruce Roberts.
The annual fall festival at Bakersfield, Bakersfest, is slated for Saturday, with activities getting started in the morning and continuing throughout the day.
Organizers are hoping for good weather. At presstime the forecast for Saturday looks like little to no chance of rain and temperatures in...
The body of a Howell County man who drowned in the North Fork of the White River Sept. 4 has been recovered, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol pubic information officer Sgt. Eddie Young.
Ryan McGee, 21, of Moody, was last seen at the fishing access south of the bridge at Hammond/North Fork...
Herman Pierce served as Ozark County Sheriff from 1965 to 1985.
When Herman went in as sheriff in 1965, Virgil Duren had been arrested and was in jail for the murders of Oscar and Ruby Kempe. The Kempes had moved from Chicago to Theodosia where they ran a small dairy with ten-twelve cows. In August of ’64, Oscar and Ruby were found early one morning by their...