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The 28th annual “Walk the Streets of Bakersfield” car show will be held during Bakersfest, Saturday, Sept. 12, in downtown Bakersfield. Registration is between 9 and 11 a.m. that morning, with awards given at 1 p.m. Dash plaques will be awarded to the first 50 entries.
The entry fee is $20 to show/...
When’s the last time you saw a bunch of folks pushing a bed down Main Street at top speed? Or, for that matter, an outhouse? At Hootin an Hollarin, that’s just part of the regular fun.
The annual bed and outhouse races return to the Gainesville square Friday, Sept. 18, giving festival-goers a...
Jaivon Smith
Court documents filed in the case of a man arrested in connection with the attempted theft of the Stockmens Bank ATM in Gainesville provide new details about the months-long investigation that ultimately led authorities to identify a suspect.
The Ozark County Times reported in July that Jaivon...
A couple years ago a group associated with Flotsam Farm, located north of Gainesville near Hodgson Mill, put together a “raising cane” themed float for the Hootin an Hollarin parade in honor of their annual project of growing sorghum cane and pressing and cooking the juice to make sweet sorghum molasses. Now is the perfect time to come up with a float idea for this year’s festival. Organizers hope there will be several floats entered into the Sept. 19 parade. Many floats are made with pioneer, hillbilly or Ozarks culture in mind, as well as the festival theme. This year the theme is “Celebrating 250 Years of the USA.”
Hundreds of spectators are expected to line the Gainesville square at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon, Sept. 19, as one of Hootin an Hollarin’s biggest traditions rolls through town, the big parade!
Parade co-chairs Kerrie Zubrod and Heather Bushner say they have a good lineup in store, but more entries...
The light stone building on the west side of the Gainesville square has recently been renovated, taking its inspiration from its history as the Bank of Gainesville location in the late 1920s.
For more than a century, the sturdy rock walls of the old Bank of Gainesville have watched Gainesville’s square change around them. Modern conveniences replaced some of the building’s original features, and layers of renovation eventually concealed much of the craftsmanship that gave the building...
At this week’s Ozark County Commission meeting, held at 9 a.m. each Monday in the courthouse, the county adopted a new ordinance in reference to data centers.
Ozark County Commissioners took another step toward making circumstances difficult for any companies who wish to build a mega data center or similar construction in Ozark County.
Mega data centers have become a major topic of discussion across the United States as more and more communities are...
During the Aug. 11, Gainesville City Council meeting, employee Jessi Price said that city attorney Jessica Blackburn is working to craft a panhandler ordinance which would prohibit individuals from holding up signs on the roadside or otherwise asking for money inside the city limits. The topic was...
At its July 21 regular Gainesville City Council meeting, new hours were set for City Hall.
Mayor Gail Reich told the council that the city employees have been holding a meeting each mornings, and adjusting the opening time from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. would allow them to have their meeting uninterrupted...
Ozark County Sheriff Cass Martin informed those in attendance at the regular Monday morning Ozark County Commissioners’ meeting that the demo for the highly controversial Verkada cameras is now over, and he is waiting for the company to come take the cameras back.
This week, several Ozark County...
On each month’s two distribution days at the Ozark County Food Pantry, vehicles start lining up as much as five hours before the 9 a.m. start. The food pantry is currently serving about 400 Ozark County families each month.
The Ozark County Food Pantry needs help.
Twice a month, this beloved and greatly appreciated local organization distributes nutritious food to Ozark Countians in need of food assistance. Most of the food boxes given out on distribution days contain 30 or more pounds of nutritious groceries,...