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<p class="p1">Gainesville’s Tanner Jennings slides into home plate to score a run during Friday’s season opener against Cabool. The Bulldogs started the spring baseball season with a 2-1 win.Brandon Poe was one for one at the plate with two walks. Jeff Donley was two for three with one run...
<p class="p1">The Gainesville archery team, coached by Greg Lowder, left, and Mindy Peirce, right, has competed in five tournaments this year. The team has 22 members from fourth through 12th grade; five members have qualified to compete in the state archery tournament set for Saturday, March...
<p class="p1">The Gainesville Bulldogs baseball team is undefeated after three games so far this season.</p><p class="p1">After a season-opener home-field win over Cabool, the teeam traveled across the county to Dora to take on the Falcons Tuesday, March 21, and brought home a 7-2...
<p class="p1">The Gainesville Lady Bulldogs took fifth place in the Summit Conference Tournament March 17-18, losing the first round to Seymour, 16-6, and coming back to defeat Conway, 7-4. Gainesville’s junior pitcher Emily McKinzie (pictured above)was named to the all-tournament team.</p...
Ozark County voters will go to the polls April 4 to elect representatives to serve on school boards in Bakersfield and Gainesville. Three seats are coming open on both boards. No election is required in the county’s other districts, where the number of candidates is the same as the number of seats...
<p class="p1">Ashlynn Vanatter of Dora leads the pack during the 100-meter dash at the track meet held Thursday, March 23, in West Plains. Ashlynn took first at the finish line with a time of 12.86. She also won first in the 200-meter dash, finishing in 26.37, and the 400-meter dash, running...
<p class="p1">Dora senior sprinter Ashlynn Vanatter won her sixth gold medal at the state championship track meet, winning the 400-meter dash in 58.36, a new personal record and the best time in all of southwest Missouri, regardess of class. Ashlynn also took second in the 200-meter with 26....
<p class="p1">Thornfield’s eighth graders visited the Capitol on April 11. From left to right, Melissa Campbell, Rebecca Scott, Rep. Lyle Rowland, Brianna Shea, Sabrina Shea, Abby Donley, Wesley Stevens and Riley Scott. </p>
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<p class="p1">Graduating seniors at Gainesville High School were awarded these scholarships at the end of the 2017 school year:</p><p class="p1"><strong>Trace Bryant</strong>: MWI Welding scholarship</p><p class="p1"><strong>Lance Burnett</strong...
<p class="p1">Gainesville’s Jeffrey Donley held Seymour scoreless, striking out 15 batters, during the first round of the Class 2 District 10 baseball tournament. After the 2-0 win, the Bulldogs fell to a tough Mansfield team in the semi-finals on Monday.</p>
Jeffrey Donley