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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Fishing for most species has been very good. Crappie are making their way to the banks to spawn, and within the next week many bass will be on beds also. Crappie are being caught on live minnows, small spoons and swimming minnows. It’s time to throw the...
<p class="p1">Spring is the beginning of “wildcrafting” season, when greens from “nature’s salad bowl” are tender and tasty, says University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein.</p><p class="p1">Wildcrafting, the gathering of plants from the natural or “wild”...
<p class="p1">This month’s Theodosia music jam session has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, April 21, at the Theodosia Village Hall on Highway 160 in Theodosia. The session was originally planned for April 7 but had to be changed due to scheduling conflicts in Village Hall and also the...
<p class="p1">Easter is Sunday, and a wide variety of Easter egg hunts, Easter services and other events are planned around the county. We’ve compiled this list of some of them:</p><p class="p4"><strong>Easter egg hunts</strong></p><p class="p5"><strong...
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">My cousin Lyle Mishler called me and said it was an exciting time when 15 Ozark Countians gathered together at the Golden Corral in Springfield recently for a reunion. There was lots of visiting and tall tales. They are making it a regular event. </span...
<p class="p1">Gainesville High School’s Youth Empowerment Project is now accepting grant applications for any Ozark County youth organization. YEP will be giving three grants this year of up to $500 each. The only requirement is that the grant must go to benefit the youth of Ozark County. ...
<p class="p1">Organizers are busy finalizing details for the third annual Homegrown & Homemade Festival, sponsored by the Ozark County Chamber of Commerce. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 6, in downtown Gainesville. The festival’s goal is to showcase Ozark...
<p class="p1">The Ozark County Volunteer Library will be open again on Mondays, beginning April 17. Library board president Kathryn Atkinson told the <em>Times</em> last week that a new volunteer has now completed, and another volunteer has returned here after winter travels, and...
<p class="p1">Ozark County youth hunters took advantage of the nice weather last weekend, taking to the woods in pursuit of turkeys. The young hunters, ranging from 6 to 15 years old, took home 34 birds during the youth-only spring turkey hunt. Twenty-seven adult gobblers and seven juvenile...
<p class="p1">When voters turned down the Ozark County Ambulance District’s request to raise the property tax levy in the April 4 election, 530 against and 432 for it, ambulance district officials were disappointed, as expected. Board president Ray Peter, who has served on the board for “10...