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Keep watching this space for details about the new business, Breathe, which will be opening the first week of February upstairs at Farm, Fork and Fiddle. The facility will offer several types of massage, cupping and aroma therapy. Kundalini yoga classes and private yoga lessons will also be...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is advising landowners adjacent to public lands on Bull Shoals and Norfork lakes that work crews will soon conduct boundary line maintenance.
On Norfork Lake, a 20-mile section of government boundary maintenance will begin in the vicinity of the Tecumseh Recreation...
When Delores Smith James joined what is now the Soil and Water Conservation District office in 1980 her title was district manager, “but basically I was a secretary who typed,” she said recently as she retired from the job she had held for more than 37 years.
The office, then known as the Soil...
A new session of Missouri University Extension online training for Master Gardeners begins Jan. 30.
Popularity of the online classes has grown steadily since MU Extension began offering them in 2013, David Trinklein, state horticulture specialist for MU Extension, said in a recent news release....
This year’s The Real Ozarks magazine is being redesigned as a guide to all the opportunities for Ozark County fun available to visitors and residents alike, and we’re looking especially for photos showing people doing that here. If you have photos of your family and friends enjoying Ozark County’s...
Ozark County native Brian Crawford graduated Dec. 30, 2016, from the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Law Enforcement Academy and will report for duty Jan. 17 with Troop I in Phelps/Maries counties. Crawford was one of 39 graduates of the Patrol’s 103rd recruit class, and at 39, is thought to be the...
Six new members of the Ozark County University of Missouri Extension Council will be elected during voting Jan. 14-20 at various sites around the county, says county program director Randy Wiedmeier.
For voting purposes, the council divides Ozark County into two districts, east and west, and all...
The Dawt Missouri Preservation Society, a not-for-profit group, will request bids for “Dawt Dam Removal” in an ad scheduled to run in the Jan. 18 and Jan 25 editions of the Times. The project is being managed by RKL Construction Co. of West Plains. The request for bids comes about eight weeks...
D.E. Pleasant, right, is the new owner of Bumper to Bumper, LLC, formerly East Side Auto Parts on the Gainesville square. Also pictured is former store owner Rocky Sullivan, who will continue temporarily to assist in the transition. The sale was finalized the first of the year, said Pleasant, who...
Destin, Florida, and the Florida Panhandle are popular vacation destinations for many area residents, so it’s expected that Ozark Countians will be interested to hear that discount carrier Allegiant Airlines will offer new nonstop flights from Springfield to Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport...