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Gainesville’s “Wonders of Christmas” event will be held Friday evening, Dec. 10, on the square.
Craft, food or game vendors are welcome to set up on the square free of charge. Booths can operate from 5 p.m. until the end of the festival. To sign up or to request more information about booths,...
Ozark County Wellness Committee member Karen Brantingham, second from right, recently accepted a $20,000 donation from the Ozark County Community Foundation (OCCF) for improvements to the walking trail project the committee started in 2020. The funds will go toward making the trail more accessible...
Gainesville High School agriculture teacher and FFA adviser Jon Wilson has a signature haircut (or lack thereof) and epic mustache that makes him one of the most recognizable teachers around - but what students really remember about him goes far beyond his appearance. His personable teaching style...
The Ozark County Times reported in its March 1, 1918, edition that about 200 friends and neighbors gathered Saturday, Feb. 23, at the home of “Uncle Carroll Beasley” near Romance to share a dinner in honor of four “boys” about to leave for Army training camp. The Times reported that the four...
These excerpts from soldiers’ letters (and a Navy press release) that were published in the Ozark County Times in decades past, often under the heading, “From our soldier boys,” remind us of the dedication and heroism of Ozark County’s military men and woman in uniform during wartime.
We are...
Editor’s note: This story about World War II veteran Emmit “Skip” Payton is reprinted from the Oct. 12, 2011, edition of the Times. Payton died June 17, 2017, at age 95. His widow, Margie, now 94, still lives in their house on Rainbow Ridge near Haskins Ford.
In 1943, Emmit “Skip” Payton shipped...
Editor’s note: This profile of Vietnam veteran Dan Morgan is reprinted, with minor editing, from the Nov. 10, 2010, edition of the Times. Morgan, who lived in Sycamore with his wife, Joyce, died in 2012 at age 63. The story tells of his surprise encounter in Vietnam with Dick Mahan, who had grown...
The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that a taped audio recording made by Theodosia resident Rebecca Ruud, who is charged with murdering her 16-year-old daughter Savannah Leckie in 2017 and disposing of the girl’s body, is admissible as evidence.
The decision was announced in a Nov. 9 press release...
Gainesville resident Mike Ellison made Missouri hunting history last month, earning the title as the only Ozark Countian and one of fewer than 10 Missouri residents to kill an elk in the state within the last century.
“I’m grateful for the opportunity,” Ellison told the Times, talking about the Oct...
In this final part of the Times’ three-part series about recent projects undertaken by the city of Gainesville, city water specialist Jessi Price describes updates that have been made to Gainesville’s sewer system and provides information on the city’s streets.
The city’s sewer system services...