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Helen Conardy is proud of her unique little steamboat-shaped dish, not because of its monetary value but because of the sentiment behind it. Made around 1904, the antique glass dish was given away to promote the sale of some of the first commercially available prepared mustard. Its original owner...
J Highway is getting a new layer of skin. The hot black asphalt is going down on the highway which runs from U.S. Highway 160 at Miller's Store south to the Arkansas state line where it becomes Arkansas Highway 201.
Pace Construction, a subcontractor picked by the Missouri Department of...
Norfork Lake is slowly starting to drop, thanks to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which opened all 12 flood gates at Norfork Dam, sending water through the spillways at a rate of 38,000 cubic feet per second. The lake crested at 580.95 at 9 a.m. Monday. By 1 p.m. Tuesday, the level had dropped...
The Sampson Masonic Lodge #298 in Theodosia will hold their regular first Saturday of the month breakfast from 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday, March 5, at the Masonic Lodge.
The menu will include scrambled eggs, sausage, biscuits and gravy, pancakes, waffles and beverages. Everyone is welcome. Cost is by...
Area residents concerned about 13 local counties being designated a National Heritage Area will have a chance to hear the matter discussed and voice their concerns at a meeting March 3 in Mountain View. Ozark, Howell, Texas, Wright, Dent, Douglas, Oregon, Shannon, Iron, Ripley, Carter, Reynolds and...
The Pontiac/Price Place Volunteer Fire Department will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. March 8 at the Pontiac Fire Station #1 next to the Pontiac Post Office.
Chief Deputy Darrin Reed of the Ozark County Sheriff's Department will speak after the meeting on meth labs. All members and nonmembers...
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The long-awaited video documentary, Hootin an Hollarin: A Story of the Ozarks, is now being mailed to those who pre-ordered copies last year, says Morey Sullivan of United Producers Entertainment. A limited number of the $20 video as well as the $10 soundtrack are...
Up-to-the-minute weather:
An arctic blast of cold air sent temperatures into the single digits overnight in most of Ozark County, and it may be even colder tonight. The low temperature was 7 in Gainesville Wednesday night and may dip to that again, possibly even lower.
The cold snap comes on the...
Sandra Riley is the "steel magnolia" of Dora High School. She rarely raises her soft, whispery voice, but she is a strong presence in her classroom. Surrounded by the paraphernalia of education and the memorabilia of decades of teaching, she personifies professionalism in the classroom.
Riley cites...