News

Absentee voting for the Nov. 3 presidential election opens Tuesday, Sept. 22, in Missouri, and Ozark County Clerk Brian Wise encourages registered voters to act early if they plan on voting absentee rather than voting in person on election day. In response to questions from the Times last week,...
Two new members were recently appointed to fill vacancies on the Gainesville Board of Aldermen. Jeff Lamar was appointed to the represent the West Ward, replacing longtime council member Rocky Sullivan, who resigned earlier this year. Renee Schmucker was appointed to represent the Center Ward,...

The 2020 edition of the Hootin an Hollarin Magazine is inserted into this week’s edition of the Times. Beginning Sept. 23, the commemorative scrapbook will also be available online at ozarkcountytimes.com or for free pickup anywhere the Times is sold. Up to three scrapbooks can be mailed to the same address anywhere in the country for $5. Call the Times at 417-679-4146 to order.
The Gainesville square should be bustling with festival preparations today as this edition of the Times is being distributed. Lions Club members and Gainesville city maintenance men should be hauling bleachers down Main Street from their storage area. The stage where dozens of musical acts and...

Geemaw’s garden Gainesville resident Jenny Billings has a unique garden featuring lots of rustic, repurposed and interesting decor spread throughout. Here she’s pictured a trough full of seashells and a painted sphere that says “Geemaw’s garden.”
Gardeners:  Danny and Jenny Billings (Q and A filled out by Jenny.) We live 11 miles north of Gainesville.   Describe your garden:  Our garden is 30 feet wide and 90 feet long. We started out growing vegetables in  tires. It took so much watering to keep up with them! I then planted flowers (...

MDC photo The Missouri Conservation Commission recently approved a framework proposed by MDC for a future black-bear-hunting season for Missouri residents, and it’s asking for public feedback on the proposed framework Oct. 16-Nov. 14.
The Missouri Conservation Commission recently approved a hunting framework proposed by the Missouri Department of Conservation for a potential future black bear season in Missouri. The commission approved the framework at its Sept. 4 open meeting in Jefferson City and is asking for final public...

A Little Rock, Arkansas, woman died, and four other out-of-state residents, including a woman from China, were injured as the result of a two-vehicle head-on crash that occurred Monday afternoon on Highway 5 south near County Road 514. All five victims were transported by air and ground ambulances to hospitals in Springfield and Mountain Home, Arkansas. This photo was edited to conceal one of the victims.
By Sue Ann Jones, sueann@ozarkcountytimes   Six vehicle and ATV crashes occurred in Ozark County between Thursday, Sept. 3, and Monday, Sept. 7, causing multiple injuries and one death.    Fatal accident Monday on Highway 5 south Five people were transported by air and ground ambulances to...

Stats for COVID-19 as of Sept. 8, 2020.
The number of covid-19 cases in Ozark County grew slowly after the Ozark County Health Department reported the first confirmed case here on June 19. Now that  rate of change is happening faster. On Aug. 25, Ozark County Health Depart-ment reported that  19 total cases had been received here. Last...
  Ozark County has had an increase of 20 positive covid-19 cases since last week’s Times was published. The sharp increase in the county’s total of cases, which stood at 39 at press time Tuesday, is the biggest weekly increase since the pandemic started earlier this year. It coincides with the...

ROBERT ABBOTT
Robert Abbott, 45, of Koshkonong, was reportedly found Friday afternoon hiding in an outbuilding near a Gainesville resident’s home on County Road 806 about a half hour after he allegedly escaped from the nearby Ozark County Jail.  Abbott, who is facing dozens of felony charges, including several...

TRAVIS HOWARD
Gainesville resident Travis Howard, 39, is being held in the Douglas County Jail in Ava on a $25,000 cash-only bond after being charged with delivery of methamphetamine and resisting arrest by fleeing in connection with a Monday morning incident near Ava School.  Howard was released from the...

Pages

Ozark County Times

504 Third Steet
PO Box 188
Gainesville, MO 65655

Phone: (417) 679-4641
Fax: (417) 679-3423