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Gainesville’s Brad Hamm hits a double during the season opener against the Dora Falcons Tuesday, Aug. 25. The Bulldogs won, 4-0. Gainesvillle’s JV played well against Dora but lost 3-1 to the Falcons. The Bulldogs hosted the Mansfield Lions Thursday, Aug. 27, and lost, 6-0. The JV won its contest,...
Rebekah and Hannah Evans exhibited their Herefords at the Douglas County Fair, showing them as 4-H members in the open and youth classes. Rebekah exhibited her September heifer, and Hannah exhibited her October bull. The girls, daughters of Mark and Kelly Evans of Squires, are in the sixth grade....
The Ozark Football Association kicked off the season Saturday, Aug. 29, with a jamboree at Bomber Stadium in Mountain Home, Arkansas. Games started at 8 a.m. for the third- and fourth-grade teams. The fifth- and sixth-grade teams’ games started at 11:30 a.m. Two Ozark County teams are participating...
Thomas Pointer, Gainesville, attended the Missouri Scholars Academy June 7-27 at the University of Missouri. Thomas, who will be a junior this fall at Gainesville High School, is the son of David and Michelle Pointer. He participates in scholar bowl, golf and FBLA. Since 1985, MSA has provided high...
Twenty-two members of Gainesville High School’s FBLA, along with adviser Patsy Hambelton and additional chaperone Tanya Johnson, traveled to Omaha, Nebraska, recently for the 2015 National Fall Leadership Conference Nov. 6-7 at the Omaha Hilton and Convention Center. Traveling with the Gainesville...
Officers in Gainesville High School’s Family Career and Community Leaders of America chapter attended a national FCCLA cluster meeting in Dallas, Texas, Nov. 20-22. Pictured at the Dallas Aquarium are, from left,  Audrey Thomas, treasurer; Hillary Souder, president; Betsy Ritchie, adviser; Jasmine...
Lutie School’s students of the month for November were, from left, Zack DeForest, 9th grade;Adam Cole, 2nd grade; and Zack Luna, 8th grade. School-wide, teachers nominate students in three age groups (kindergarten-fourth grade), (fifth-eighth grade) and (ninth-12th grade) in the category of the...
The Gainesville Lady Bulldogs participated last week in the Licking summer basketball camp in Branson and won the championship with an undefeated record of 11-0. Team members are, from left, Katelyn Brantingham, Scout Jeckstadt, Madison Strong, Annie Noah, Destiny Scott, Michia Jenkins, Abby Britt...
Gainesville basketball standouts Thomas Ritter and Madison Strong were recently selected to the Missouri Class 2 All-State teams. This makes the second year in a row Ritter and Strong were selected to the teams by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. The dynamic duo led the Bulldogs and the...
Gainesville High School history was made Friday night at Sparta as the GHS boys and girls each won their respective Class 2 District 10 championship on the same night in the same gym. School officials and GHS alumni said they don't remember any time in recent history when the boys and girls teams...

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