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The 52nd annual Hootin an Hollarin is being planned for Sept. 20-22 on the square in Gainesville.
Thousands of people attend the three-day festival of fun, food and old-time crafts and demonstrations.
The queen pageant will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Ozark County girls ages 14-18 are invited to...
As the Labor Day weekend approaches, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reminds everyone to make safety a priority, including the use of seat belts when traveling in any kind of vehicle and life jackets when on a Missouri lake, river or stream.
In 2011, 13 people were killed and 443 injured in...
The Army Corps of Engineers is temporarily closing some facilities to complete work required to implement the White River Minimum Flow project on Bull Shoals Lake.
According to a Corps news release, some facilities at Lead Hill, Beaver Creek and Buck Creek parks were to be closed beginning Aug. 13...
You would think the hottest selling item this time of the year would be a toy or the latest electronic gadget. So what is the item that is flying off shelves, even in Ozark County?
The AR-15 assault rifle.
The rifle is one of several that lawmakers may consider banning and is the same kind of rifle...
Judy Johnson wasn’t expecting Santa Claus when a woman walked into her Theodosia Treasure Gallery shop recently, but that’s who the woman turned out to be.
She handed Judy $100 and said, “I want to put this on whoever’s layaway needs it.”
The secret Santa insisted on remaining anonymous. “She didn’...
Six people turned out for a public hearing at Gainesville city hall Monday night to hear about a proposed sewer rate increase — an increase the board of aldermen later voted into effect.
After a few questions and a brief explanation of the rate increase during the hearing, the board of aldermen...
The process to initiate a recount of last week’s primary election results in the Ozark County eastern district commissioner's race is under way. The initial results showed incumbent T.J. Lewis with 630 votes and challenger Gary Collins with 633. Lewis asked for the recount, and the process has been...
Despite a decent rain shower on Dec. 20, area lakes are still very low.
Much of the mid-section of the country is still in drought conditions. In Ozark and neighboring Missouri counties, the U.S. Drought Monitor (http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu) indicates a moderate drought, but nearby Arkansas...
Bridge work on CR 830 will take a few days longer than originally planned.
Western district commissioner Greg Donley said Monday the project was supposed to be done by Dec. 12, but will probably take a "few more days."
Donley said cold weather caused the delay.
Circuit Judge John Moody presided over 19 criminal and eight civil cases during his last official Ozark County Law Day, Dec. 5, and gave one defendant a break, but not before establishing his expectations.
Michael M. Ward, who pleaded guilty to four counts of receiving stolen property, faced the...