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Edward Britt
A 71-year-old Gainesville man is facing multiple felony charges, including child rape, sexual abuse and incest, after authorities allege he impregnated his 16-year-old adoptive daughter and later married her, going on to have six additional children with her over two and a half decades.
According...
A gate at the Gainesville city-owned Hoerman Memorial Park will be closed during off hours of 5 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. during the winter months.
The city of Gainesville is now enforcing open and closed park hours at the Hoerman Memorial Park.
City Councilwoman Lana Bushong said at this month’s council meeting that the park gate will be closed and locked from 5 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. daily in the winter months. As the daylight hours lengthen in...
Blakely Morrison
Gainesville residents can expect a new local chiropractic option in the near future, as Blakely Morrison prepares to return home and begin serving the community where she was raised.
Morrison graduated from Logan University in Chesterfield on Dec. 20, 2025, earning her Doctor of Chiropractic degree...
Photo submitted Backwoods Ink is now open on Main Street in Gainesville, across from the grocery store. Owner Kyla Hicks says the year-long renovation to the building is now complete, and she’s excited to welcome customers into the space.
After months of renovations and preparation, local resident Kyla Hicks has opened the doors to her long-awaited dream, bringing a professional tattoo studio to Gainesville.
Backwoods Ink is now open at 452 Main Street, directly across from Town & Country Supermarket. Kyla said the new shop is...
The Ozark County Historium will host a book signing for local pastors Mike and Retha Evans, celebrating the release of Mike Evans’ newly published devotional book, “Chosen: 444 Reasons to Live by the Word of God.” The event will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, at the Historium on the west side...
Times photo/Jessi Dreckman The Missouri Department of Transportation sheds in Gainesville and Dora had snow plows out over the weekend attempting to clear highways, but the bitter cold complicated the snow removal process.
Snow totals across Ozark County fell well short of early forecasts issued in the year’s first winter weather event last weekend, but the bitter cold that followed proved just as disruptive as predicted.
Snow arrived in two separate rounds, beginning Friday night and continuing into early Saturday...
Area volunteer fire departments have had a busy start to the year 2026. Tecumseh Assistant Fire Chief J.B. Duke shared the photo at left, which was taken at a fire last week on H Highway, north of Highway 160. Duke said the Jan. 7 structure fire included an old vacant home and travel trailer. ...
photo by Jason Marsh This photo shows the new baseball and softball fields and quarter-mile walking track, being built by the Bakersfield School District.
Construction on Bakersfield School’s new sports complex and park is currently in full swing, and the Lions baseball and softball teams are gearing up to make quite a roar this season on their new home turf.
Construction on the ballfields has created quite the buzz of excitement, but the final...
The filing period for Ozark County’s school board races came to a close Dec. 30, and this year three local schools have contested races while two do not.
Gainesville School Board
The largest number of candidates in Ozark County filed for the Gainesville School Board where three open seats, each...
Learning is about to get a whole lot cooler at Bakersfield School, thanks to a $513,000 federal grant the district was awarded to purchase new science and technology equipment for use in elementary through high school grades.
Among the most exciting purchases funded by the grant is an Anatomage...