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Terry Newton
Terry Newton took home the most votes for Ozark County Presiding Commissioner in the Aug. 2 Primary Election with 742 residents casting a ballot in his favor, compared with 598 ballots cast for incumbent John Turner and 411 ballots cast for candidate Joe Corbin, according to unofficial results from...
Rebecca Ruud
Circuit Judge Calvin Holden has found that Theodosia resident Rebecca Ruud is not guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, abuse of a child, and tampering with evidence.
She was found guilty of only one charge, abandonment of a corpse. It is a class E felony with a maximum sentence of...
Heather Hoffman of Rock Hill Farm is known for her beautifully arranged, fresh cut flowers. She is the speaker at this year’s Historium tea.
Tickets are now on sale for the Ozark County Historium’s annual summertime tea, to be held at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 4, at the Historium building on the square in Gainesville.
This year’s theme is “fresh cut flowers,” and Heather Hoffman of Rock Hill Flower Farm in Pottersville will be the...
Times photo/Jessi Dreckman Ini Giesbrecht, in his signature kilt, and Wren Haffner, stand in their garden where squash are planted. Their property, which they’ve named Mountain Jewel, is located along Caney Creek off FF Highway northeast of Gainesville.
There are few pests that gardeners here love to hate as much as squash bugs - and for good reason.
Flourishing gardens in early spring can take a sharp turn as tiny copper-colored eggs tucked inconspicuously onto the undersides of leaves begin hatching into droves of hungry nymphs that seem to...
Carol Cooper is pictured here with a monarch that she helped raise from an egg laid on her milkweed plants in her front yard last year. Cooper regularly brings eggs in after they’re laid and provides a controlled environment where the insects have less predator pressure. She releases full grown Monarchs after they hatch.
Gainesville resident Carol Cooper says she’s been checking her blooming milkweed everyday, but the lack of Monarch larva on the plants is making for a disappointing summer.
“No Monarchs. No eggs yet,” she told the Times last week, adding that in past years she’d helped to raise the Monarchs who...
If there’s a silver lining to a drought, in Ozark County many low-water crossings that are typically underwater due to swollen lakes are crossable this year.
Ozark County Commissioners said the only low-water crossing that’s still closed is Haskins Ford on County Road 863 where the Little North...
Ozark County received good news Monday during a mid-year health insurance checkup.
County commissioners heard from John McCarty with Arch Brokerage, the county’s health insurance provider.
McCarty attended the commissioners’ regular Monday morning meeting and reported that the county has filed only...
Fatal crash
Corey T. Lawrence, 33, of Theodosia, was killed in a head-on crash at 6:15 p.m. July 27 on Highway 160, one mile west of Theodosia.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol online crash report, Lawrence was traveling westbound on Highway 160 in a 2000 Ford Crown Victoria with 35-year-old...
Anna Simonson from Community Partnership of the Ozarks was the main speaker during the July 12 Ozark County Substance Abuse Task Force.
Ozark County was chosen as one of nine counties to be a part of youth-centered substance use prevention through a federal grant program. The program was discussed at the Ozark County Substance Abuse Task Force’s July 12 meeting at Gainesville First Baptist Church’s community event center where 12...