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“It doesn’t affect everybody, but it will aid everybody.”
That’s what Ozark County Presiding Commissioner Terry Newton said during the Monday morning commissioners’ meeting. The commissioners were discussing the need for what is called the “internet use tax” – a measure that has been put on the...
It was 1 o’clock in the morning, under an inky black December sky when a 16-year-old Gainesville boy slowly walked into the frigid water of Bull Shoals Lake.
He was followed a few steps behind by Lilly Ridge General Baptist Church Pastor Davin Friend, while a team of nearly 30 boys and men watched...
Most folks today probably think of funeral homes as somber places where the hard fact of death is a constant presence. But for a certain bunch of Gainesville kids who grew up in the 1950s and '60s, Clinkingbeard Funeral Home was a fun place where we shared way more laughter than tears.
It was a...
Joseph L. Kish, 42, was killed in a head-on crash at 3 a.m. last Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023, on Highway 5, about five miles south of Wasola.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s online crash report, Kish was driving a 2013 Chevrolet Cruze southbound on Highway 5 when, around 3 a.m., he...
Debra Schilling Smith and Peggy Williams with United Country Missouri Ozarks Realty raised $3,400 for the Ozark County Sheriff’s Department Shop with a Cop event.
The pair organized a fundraising effort called "Stuff the Stockings with Change for Christmas," in which they placed 5-foot tall candy...
After writing a humorous farm column that has entertained thousands of newspaper and magazine readers all around America for nearly 30 years, Jerry Crownover is calling it quits – and no one is happy about it.
Well, except maybe his wife, Judy, who has seen him fret and stew, trying to think up...
Toys and other gifts for more than 200 Ozark County children were distributed Saturday, Dec. 16, at this year’s Ozark County Toy Drive. The event was held at the First Baptist Church event center building on Third Street in Gainesville.
“I thought it went real well,” said chairperson Nancy Walker...
Caulfield resident and local volunteer firefighter Richard Clewett, 39, was laid to rest at a family cemetery Friday in a service with full military honors. Clewett was killed in a Dec. 13 crash on V Highway, about two and a half miles west of Caulfield.
He was a Caulfield volunteer firefighter,...
The first Gainesville High School seniors to take a semester-long emergency medical technician course offered in a collaboration between the Ozark County Ambulance District and Gainesville High School graduated the course at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 14. Six students started the class at the beginning...
Times photo/Regina Mozingo
Work started Saturday, Dec. 9, to repair and update the west entrance to the Ozark County Courthouse. Work on the east entrance will begin after the west steps are finished. The handicap accessible entrance to the basement will be finished last. Ozark County Presiding...