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Tecumseh VFD’s Assistant Fire Chief JB Duke shared videos of responders locating a missing woman on the North Fork river near River of Life Farm.
What began as a day of adventure on the North Fork of the White River turned into a tense evening Saturday, June 22, when a kayaker was reported missing on the winding waters near River of Life Farm in Dora.
Volunteer fire departments from Dora, Tecumseh and Bakersfield, along with the Missouri...
A group prayer was held last Friday at the summer league ball fields in Gainesville in honor of former GES fifth grade student Scarlett Hall, who remains in the hospital with serious injuries following an accident in which she was trapped in a creek bridge culvert last week. Photo by Karla Smith.
Last Friday night, amid the dusty, sun-soaked Gainesville summer league ball fields, where generations have poured their hearts into the game, Gainesville First Baptist Church Pastor Mason Eslinger led a powerful group prayer for fifth grade student Scarlett Hall.
With players, parents and...
In 1980, Arne and Shirley Gustafson planted 2,000 blueberry bushes at Timberock Farm in Brixey. Photo submitted.
A charming hand-painted sign sits alongside the gentle hills and quiet countryside of N Highway in Brixey, welcoming motorists to a local spot that’s as sweet-as-summer, the Timberock U-Pick Blueberry Farm, where rows upon rows of sun-dappled bushes hang heavy with fruit, ripe for the picking, just...
Bakersfield residents Desiree and Garrett McCullum enjoy the West Plains fair recently with their sweet baby girl, Sadie Rae. The couple is also in the process of building a new home.
Garrett and Desiree McCollum were just over two months away from welcoming their first child into the world when a deadly tornado tore through Bakersfield, completely blowing away their trailer that sat just off Highway 142. The couple had taken shelter with other family members in a root cellar on...
Several thousand Ozark Countians received an unpleasant real estate tax impact statement in their mailboxes this week - a statement of tax increases. Ozark County Assessor Jama Berry says she’s fought against the increases for several months, but it is being enforced by the Missouri State Tax...
The city of Gainesville is beginning to spread the word that a more than $4 million upgrade to water services in the Gainesville city limits will soon be coming. While the project is much needed and eagerly anticipated, workers warn that there may be some disruption to water service while...
Mike Gardner has been clearing out trees and brush alongside Third Street opposite The Antler Package and Pizza.
The Antler Package and Pizza owner Mike Gardner attended the city council meeting to discuss recent improvements, including trimming trees and cutting brush back from Third Street across from the restaurant, along with dirt work that formed additional parking on that road’s shoulder. Gardner asked...
Smokin’ Joe’s is located on Third Street in Gainesville, just off the southwest corner of the square. Currently diners parallel park along both sides the street there to access the restaurant.
The city council voted unanimously to deny a request made by Joe Fortuna, owner of Smokin’ Joe’s BBQ, to make Third Street a one-way street or to put in slanted parking spaces near the restaurant, which reopened a couple weeks ago.
Fortuna also asked the council to help him find a place he can put...
Maintenance Supervisor Mike Davis recently discussed damage on the low water slab bridge on Main Street near the turn off to the summer league ball fields.
Davis said a large chunk of concrete washed out in the recent heavy rains, which had been blocked off with barricades. He said the city crew...
This and other pipes extending out of a creek bank near the city’s wastewater treatment facility have become an issue that the city is awaiting guidance to address. The pipes were installed as part of a creek stabilization project which was expected to extend further on the bank, but the permit from the Corps of Engineers prevented the full bank from being stabilized.
City Clerk Lisa Goodnight said she spoke with a representative from Toth & Associates, the city’s engineer on record, about pipes that are sticking out of the nearby creek bank. The engineer asked if there will be money left over in a grant being used to rebuild the city’s wastewater treatment...