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After six and a half years as the Old Harlin House Café, a Gainesville landmark is getting a new name and a new direction.
Missy Harlin, manager of the Old Harlin House Café since it opened in September 2005, announced this week that the café will close on Friday, March 9. It will reopen a month...
Olen and Gladys Reding's hearts were fairly broken in two when they moved to Gainesville last May. It was not a move they had planned, nor was it one the two were ready to make. But the events of May 22, 2011, in Joplin forced their hand, and move they did.
"It seems that it took a tornado to get...
The Ozark County Sheriff’s office is continuing its investigation into some big cases that made headlines recently, and charges are expected to be filed later this week, said Sheriff Raymond Pace.
The counterfeiting and identity theft case that was uncovered in Theodosia last month has taken a new...
Missouri Department of Transportation crews will be working on Ozark County roads in the coming days according to the schedule noted below, weather permitting.
From 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays through March 1, Route 95 in Ozark County will be reduced to one lane between County Roads 128 and 132...
The Ozark County Historium will be featured in a segment of the Ozarks Public Television show Ozarks Watch at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb 26, and at 10:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27.
Host Jim Baker visited the Historium last fall and said last week he was intrigued by the name Historium. “I don’t think I’d...
Candidate filing for the Aug. 7 primary election will begin Tuesday, Feb. 28, and continue until 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 27.
Offices up for election are county commissioner (western and eastern), sheriff, assessor, treasurer (the late David Ford’s two-year unexpired term), public administrator,...
Stretches of four Ozark County roadways will be reduced to one lane this week while Missouri Department of Transportation crews complete the following maintenance projects:
Rout K from Rout 14 to the Douglas COunty line, and Route 95 from Highway 5 6 Route JJ for work on roadway approaches.
Route...
Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper Joshua V. Garrison has been assigned to Troop G, zone 5, Douglas and Ozark counties. He will reside in Bakersfield.
Garrison, a native of Thayer, is a graduate of Thayer High School and holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Drury University in...
A monthly scrapbooking and photo preservation class is starting Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Ozark County Historium on the Gainesville square. The class will start at 9:30 a.m. and continue through lunchtime. Participants are asked to bring their own lunch.
The class will be taught by Creative...
The beginning-of-the-school-year enrollment numbers are in at area schools, and some schools gained a few students while a couple lost some.
At Gainesville, superintendent Joe Donley said he was pleased with the figures, which showed 628 students enrolled in K-12 classes at Gainesville. Last year,...