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Cade Nold, Dora High School senior, is the Class 1 state champion in both the 400-meter dash and 800-meter run and is now a state record holder in both events.
Cade set the 400-meter dash record in 2024 when he ran it in 49.15. He won the race this year in 49.18.
This year, he smashed the 800-...
All photos courtesy Ozarks Sports Zone Class 1 state champions The Dora Falcons boys track and field team has been named Class 1 state champions. Members of the team are, from left (front row), Coach Sheree Nold, Zachary Green, Lathan Smith, Carson Howard, Josiah Ward, Coach Kaitlyn Perkins; (back row) Brayden Decker, Daniel Tomlinson, Cade Nold, Joshua Nold, Clayton Collins.
The Dora Falcons have made their 2025 track and field season one to remember with stellar performances at the Class 1 state meet held at Adkins Stadium in Jefferson City May 23-24.
The boys team brought home the Class 1 state championship, scoring 44 points – 2 points ahead of McAuley Catholic.
The...
Doug Hawkins with the Ozark County Chamber of Commerce attended last week’s city council meeting to ask for approval to hold a July 4 fireworks show in town.
The fireworks show would be set off by Kirk and Segra Stephens of Foggy Bottom Fireworks from the top of the ridge facing the east side of...
The city council approved installing a drainage curb and gutter near the Ozark County Volunteer Library to help divert water from the building’s exterior wall on Elm Street due to the fact that Second Street is higher than the curb in that location. The council approved the project and opened the...
This cropped portion of a MoDOT map shows the Gainesville city limits in the shaded area. Collins’ property sits outside the city limits, but he hopes to hook into the city’s water and sewer system.
Builder Eddie Collins attended this month’s city council meeting to discuss a topic that was brought up last month. He has purchased a piece of property that sits outside the city limits in an area between the MoDOT shed on MM Highway and the Gainesville Veterinary Hospital off Wildwood Drive. ...
City employees work to spread mulch, donated by CedarSafe, at the Gainesville Hoerman Memorial Park, located off Highway 160 near the elementary school.
April Lynne, who was appointed to the city council in March, gave her fellow council members a report on the city-owned Hoerman Memorial Park.
Gainesville business CedarSafe recently donated mulch to the city, which was spread as ground covering at the park underneath various pieces of playground...
Century Bank president and CEO Chris Harlin stands beside a skid steer the bank had purchased a few years ago for its own use and donated last week to the Bakersfield School. Bakersfield superintendent Dr. Amy Padgett said the skid steer is "a luxury we could never have afforded." It will be used "for so many things," she said, beginning with helping repair damage to the school's ballfields and park after a recent tornado followed by heavy rain that resulted in flooding.
When thinking of donations to a public school system, a skid steer might not immediately come to mind, but when Century Bank of the Ozarks president and CEO Chris Harlin offered one to Bakersfield School superintendent Dr. Amy Padgett recently, she didn't hesitate to say yes.
"It's a really nice...
This week we take time to note, with gratitude and sorrow, those with Ozark County ties whose lives ended while they were serving in the military during wartime. They are the men whose names are engraved on the Ozark County War Memorial on the courthouse lawn – as well as others whose names have...
Editor’s note: This is the sixth and final installment of a series detailing the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, a religious commune located south of Pontiac in the 1970s and 1980s. The anti-government, paramilitary and white supremacist group of more than 100 people lived together on...
Sara Jo Suter opened her new bakery, Suter’s Sweets Bakery, in the strip mall off Highway 160 in Theodosia earlier this month. Formerly employed as a nurse, Sara Jo said she took a leap of faith this year to pursue her real passion, baking and decorating cookies.
The aroma of fresh-baked cookies, pastries and other baked goods now floats through the air in downtown Theodosia several days a week, thanks to the town’s newest business addition, Suter’s Sweets Bakery.
Nestled in the shopping center off Highway 160, the bakery opened its doors earlier this...