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Theodosia resident Buddy Goree stands with one of his large stained glass pieces. He was recently chosen as one of 18 artists in the United States to have his work displayed as part of the Carnegie Library Museum’s exhibition in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
By Jessi Dreckman,
jessi@ozarkcountytimes.com
The intricate stained glass artwork of Theodosia resident Buddy Goree is now on display hundreds of miles from home as part of an art exhibition at the Carnegie Library Museum in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Goree, a longtime stained glass artist,...
Eleven-year-old Scarlett Hall and her little brother, Rolen, have shared a special bond their entire lives. But on June 19, 2025, everything changed.
While swimming in a creek that day, Scarlett was sucked into a clogged creek bridge culvert in Douglas County and became trapped underwater in a...
Times photo/Regina Mozingo Several residents showed up for Monday morning’s Ozark County Commissioners meeting to express their concerns about the possibility of AI data centers in the county. A total of eight citizens showed up for the abnormally lengthy meeting. Those pictured are, from left, April DeWeese, Rachel Corter, Western District Commissioner Layne Nance, Ozark County Clerk Brian Wise, Presiding Commissioner Terry Newton, Eastern District Commissioner Jim Britt and Randy Riffey. Others, who came later, were in attendance but not pictured.
Ozark County Commission meetings are usually quiet and quick; normally lasting less than 10 minutes and attended by very few residents. However, as AI data centers creep closer and closer to Ozark County (the nearest one is being built in Webster County near Marshfield, about 66 miles from...
Options Pregnancy, located on Third Street in Gainesville, just off the southwest corner of the square, provides free resources for Ozark County parents. There are no income requirements or other restrictions, and all local residents are invited to participate in the program and benefit from its services. Among the resources parents can benefit from is a clothing room and free diapers and wipes.
Options Pregnancy Resource Center, located just off the Gainesville square, is a not-for-profit ministry with the focus on providing help and support to expectant moms as well as moms with children from birth to age 3 years old.
Anyone facing a pregnancy, whether planned or unplanned, can qualify...
Discussion after the weekly county commissioners’ meeting Monday morning centered around one of the hottest topics in Ozark County recently: the possibility of AI data centers in Ozark County.
Commissioners are quick to assure county residents that they are staying informed on the issue that is on...
Last Saturday, the casket of longtime Ozark County Ambulance Administrator Stacy Raney was carried to its final resting place inside the ambulance he helped design and order three years ago before he was diagnosed with an aggresive brain cancer that led to his death May 12.
Emergency responders from a variety of different agencies gathered last Saturday to honor longtime emergency medical services leader Stacy Raney, 56, of Ava, who died May 12, 2026, at his home surrounded by family after a battle with Glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer.
His funeral brought...
photo by Ed Doiron A semi truck hauling a gasoline tanker lies overturned near the Spring Creek bridge on Highway 160, with debris scattered across the roadway following a crash April 29.
Traffic on Highway 160, about five miles west of Gainesville, was halted in both directions for more than 12 hours last week after a semi truck hauling gasoline overturned multiple times while descending the hill just before the Spring Creek bridge.
According to this week’s Ozark County Sheriff’s...
Ozark County Western District Commissioner Layne Nance, Eastern District Commissioner Jim Britt and Presiding Commissioner Terry Newton.
Ozark County Commissioners took care of necessary bid notices during the regular weekly meeting Monday morning.
Western District Commissioner Layne Nance and Eastern District Commissioner Jim Britt unanimously accepted the bid from Coastal Energy Corporation for road oil for the Road & Bridge...
Times photo/Regina Mozingo Near the corner of Third Street and Leeton Luna Lane, Shelter Insurance agents Heather Luna and Doug Hawkins installed a mailbox for their office alongside other new mailboxes that went in for Michelle Anderson's Shear Artistry Salon and Mill Country Title.
A recent change in how the U.S. Postal Service delivers packages to some Gainesville residents and businesses has gone smoothly for some but caused frustration for others.
In March, some Gainesville postal patrons received a letter from Gainesville postmaster Crystal Hand that said beginning...
For several months, the Gainesville City Council has attempted to have a property at Main and Sixth Streets in Gainesville cleaned up so it is in compliance with the city’s nuisance ordinance, which aims to ensure that all structures and properties within the city limits remain neat and tidy. And...