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There’s something a little different about 9-month-old Lyla Valentine than there was 15 days ago. The difference is a small, four-inch scar on her chest – and the new heart beating inside it.
Lyla, granddaughter of Squires residents Kathy and Monty Valentine and daughter of Rocky and Beanna...
Bakersfield's all-school reunion is slated for Saturday, June 30. Activities will be held at Pride Park in downtown Bakersfield and at the school gymnasium.
All-day activities in the park include food concessions (hamburgers, hot dogs, brats, snow cones and cold drinks), an ice cream social, kids'...
Gainesville school administrators Bill Looney and Joe Donley were among the 12 sets of educators selected recently to be interviewed as part of the StoryCorps National Teachers Initiative when the program scheduled two days of recording in West Plains. The educators were selected through the Rural...
Since last week’s warning by Ozark County extension specialist Stacy Hambelton that true army worms had been reported in the county, the pests have increased in number and are now waging war on Ozark County pastures and hay fields. “It’s happening every day,” said Hambelton. “Every day I’m hearing...
The Missouri Department of Transportation reports that Highway 5 from the Douglas County line to Route A in Ozark County will be reduced to one lane this week while Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform shoulder repairs.
Route 95 from Highway 160 to Route D will be reduced to one late...
Area residents are again being asked to loan items for an upcoming exhibit at the Ozark County Historium. From May 14 through 28, the Historium will focus on the Civil War, and residents are asked to loan letters, documents, pictures, uniforms and other memorabilia for the exhibit.
Items are needed...
Summer ball is just around the corner, and the Gainesville Lions Club is gearing up for the season with its 25th Annual Lions Club Dinner and Auction set for Friday, April 27, at Gainesville High School.
Members of the Gainesville Lions Club conduct the dinner and auction to raise money to help...
White supremacist pastor Gordon Winrod, 85, is scheduled to be released from prison May 11 after having served just over 10 years of a 30-year sentence for kidnapping six of his grandchildren and keeping them at his rural Ozark County farm to indoctrinate them.
Winrod was arrested in May 2000 after...
Ozark County schools are counting down the days to the end of the 2011-2012 school year. These last days of classes and graduation dates have been set:
<strong>Bakersfield:</strong> The last day of school will be May 11, with classes dismissed at 1 p.m. Eighth-grade graduation will be...
The U.S. Senate has given final approval to legislation impacting rural post offices, including Missouri Senators Claire McCaskill's and Roy Blunt’s amendments, as described in this week's Ozark County Times ("Senators unveil plan to protect rural post offices").
Three Ozark County post offices are...