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A 58-year-old Mountain View, Missouri, man was transported to Ozarks Healthcare in West Plains March 13 after sustaining moderate injuries in a semi rollover crash on Highway 101, three miles south of Bakersfield.
The man was driving a 1998 Peterbuilt semi truck with a trailer load of road asphalt...
Times photo/Jenny Yarger Wes and Catie Wood brought their daughters along Friday for the closing of their purchase of Theodosia Marina Resort from the Cook family. From left: Catie and Wes Wood with their daughters Clara, left, and Cora. Middle: Buyer's agent Joey Peglar of Peglar Real Estate and seller's agent Debra Schilling Smith of West Plains United Country Missouri Ozarks Realty stand next to Bret and Melanie Cook, Nadine Cook, and LaTasha and Mitch Cook.
Another Ozark County landmark has changed owners.
On Friday, March 13, Nadine Cook and her family closed on the sale of Theodosia Marina Resort to Mountain Home, Arkansas, residents Wes and Catie Wood, marking the end of the Cook family's 74-year ownership of the business the late L. B. and Polly...
The April 7 General Municipal Election is approaching, and the Ozark County Times will publish a special local Ozark County voter’s guide in its April 1 edition to help residents learn what will be on their ballots before heading to the polls.
That edition will feature a detailed explanation of...
Caulfield resident Kenneth Kuk Sr. is pictured here undergoing treatment for renal cell carcinoma.
Exactly one month after the tiny town of Bakersfield held a benefit auction and chili supper for local resident Natasha Crites, who is battling cancer, the community gathered again to do the same for another beloved neighbor, Caulfield resident Kenneth Kuk Sr.
The benefit for Kuk was held March 7...
Times photo/Jessi Dreckman A new chapter has opened at the Old Harlin House, located on Harlin Drive in Gainesville, as longtime family owners Chris and Missy Harlin recently sold the 114-year-old grand home to Mike and Heather Gardner, who plan to open it as an event center.
The Harlin House, a grand, three-story home that has stood for 114 years as a beloved Gainesville landmark, is about to begin its next chapter of “life.” On Feb. 20, Mike and Heather Gardner bought the old mansion from the Harlin family, represented by Chris Harlin, Century Bank of the Ozarks CEO...
Photo courtesy of ABC Hannah Harper will be the headline act during this year’s Hootin an Hollarin festival, set for Sept. 17-19. Harper will perform from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, on the Gainesville square.
When Hootin an Hollarin Committee Chairperson Paula Rose first saw a video of Hannah Harper’s audition for the ABC hit television show “American Idol,” her heart skipped a beat.
“How perfect would she be for Hootin an Hollarin?” she remembered thinking.
Clad in a handmade dress made of quilt...
The first congregation at Bridges Creek Baptist Church on Baptist Hill northwest of Bakersfield met in the Bridges Creek log schoolhouse beginning in 1874. The first frame structure was built in 1892 and burned in 1914. The current building, shown here, was built in 1916 using lumber that was planed from locally grown trees. It has had several improvements and additions since then.
Devoted Christians have been gathering to worship at Bridges Creek Church since a handful of early Ozark Countians organized a Missionary Baptist congregation there 152 years ago. All these years later, the little church on V Highway at Elijah, northwest of Bakersfield, continues each week to...
This photo above was taken of Summer (Loftis) Luna recently after she graduated from the 44th Judicial Circuit Treatment Court Program. Luna says she’s come a long way since the photo below was taken, when she was in the depths of drug and alcohol addiction, unhappy and unhealthy weighing only 95 pounds.
When Gainesville resident Summer Luna walked into the Ozark County Courthouse and climbed the familiar gray stairs to the courtroom on Feb. 11, it wasn’t her first trip up those steps. In fact, she had made the walk many times since the May 2024 drug bust at her then-Isabella home left her facing a...
By Kerrie Zubrod,
Vice President,
Century Bank of the Ozarks
Every week, sometimes every day, I sit across the desk from someone who says the same heartbreaking words: “I think I’ve been scammed.”
The faces are different. The stories are different. But the pattern is almost always the same....
The power box at the pavilion located at the Hoerman Memorial Park, the city-owned park located on Highway 160 near the elementary school, will soon be replaced with a locking unit intended to prevent overuse of taxpayer-funded electricity.
The work will be completed by Kenny Ericksen, the sole...