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Implementation of a countywide 911 system has been placed on hold until Ozark County commissioners can find funding to pay the system's monthly fees.
Presiding commissioner Dave Morrison said grant money has funded all of the work done so far, which includes readdressing the county and purchasing...
The Ozark County Historium’s Salute to Veterans exhibit and related events begin next week in Gainesville. The exhibit, featuring veterans’ photos, letters and personal and military memorabilia, will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 5-9, 13-16 and from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, when a...
Atai Kaskymov, 18, of Kyrgyzstan, and Krista Dostálová, 15, of the Czech Republic, have spent the last few months at Gainesville High School learning about Missouri culture and history, but it was a recent trip to Jefferson City that gave the two foreign exchange students a new perspective on their...
The Ozark County Mutual Aid Fire and Rescue Association wants your scrap metal. On Nov. 3, Mutual Aid volunteers will be traveling throughout the county picking up scrap metal residents want to get rid of. The funds collected from selling the metal will help the Search and Rescue Team further their...
Tooney’s Emporium, an Isabella pawn shop, was burglarized sometime over the weekend. Owner Harold “Tooney” Russell said several $10 gaming tokens from different Las Vegas casinos were taken. “They’re 99 percent silver, about the size of a silver dollar,” he said, “with a brass-colored edge on them...
The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Troop G commanding officer Capt. Dwayne F. Isringhausen, has announced that a DWI saturation will be held in Ozark County sometime in the month of March. The Missouri State Highway Patrol, in cooperation with area law enforcement, will conduct the operation....
As of 9 a.m. Thursday (March 1) 14 people had filed for positions to be decided in the Aug. 7 primary election in Ozark County. Out of that number, all but one are Republicans. Those who had filed by 9 a.m. Thursday were Greg Donley (the lone Democrat) and Steve Evans for western district...
Between maps, global positioning systems and satellite photography, there isn't much of this country that hasn't been mapped, photographed or otherwise documented, which makes Jerry Pusch’s discovery interesting.
Jerry, who lives in Auburn, was in the woods in the Missouri Ozarks when he found a...
Tickets went on sale this week for The Worst of Times: The Civil War in Ozark County, an upcoming readers theater featuring true Civil War stories about Ozark County. The program will be presented at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 14, and again at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 15, at the Ozark County Historium. ...
Ozark County Sheriff's deputies say they recovered all the items stolen last week from Lilly Ridge General Baptist Church. Thieves struck the Lilly Ridge church and also the Elijah Church of Christ sometime between Feb. 22 and Feb. 26. At Lilly Ridge they stole sound equipment, including speakers,...