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2023 Hootin an Hollarin queen MaryJane Flygare
The 63rd Hootin an Hollarin festival, slated for Sept. 19-21, is fast approaching, and organizers with the annual queen pageant are now accepting registration forms from girls who would like to enter the contest.
To qualify to enter, girls must be age 14 to 18, a resident of Ozark County and attend...
Lynn Bentele, far left, Cindy Ratcliff, far right, and Betty Mayfield, proudly display the quilt and one of the four shams that will be raffled this year for the Friendly Neighbors Extension club during Hootin and Hollarin. The quilt, which measures 81 inches by 81 inches, should fit a full or queen bed nicely. Tickets are $1 each of six tickets for $5. They can be purchased where the quilt is displayed this month and in September before the Sept. 19-21 quilt show. During the festival, tickets can be purchased at the quilt show.
Hootin an Hollarin is just around the corner, and quilt show organizers are gearing up for a great quilt show at the festival this year.
The Friendly Neighbors Extension Club has also begun selling raffle tickets for the quilt pictured above, which will be raffled off with four matching pillow...
Times photo/Jessi Dreckman The newly opened CF Coffee & Tea Co. is located in suite A (the building closest to White Oak Station convenience store) in the strip mall off Highway 160 in Theodosia. The space is also home to CF Meat Co.. Both businesses are owned by Shanna and Erica Clayton.
The residents of Theodosia have been buzzing with excitement over the opening of CF Coffee & Tea Co., located in the strip mall off Highway 160 in Theodosia. A grand opening celebration is slated for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, and everyone is invited.
What’s on the menu?
The shop...
Theodosia Village Hall
The Village of Theodosia's "use tax," was voted in during the Aug. 6 Primary Election. There were 22 ballots voting yes on the use tax, while 14 ballots were cast in opposition.
The passage means that items purchased online or in catalogs by residents within Theodosia city limits will be subject to...
Adam Freeman
Candidate Adam Freeman was elected into the Jackson Township committeeman position during the Aug. 6 Primary Election by a slight edge of two votes, according to unofficial Ozark County election results. Freeman received 26 votes, while incumbent committeeman David Haskins received 24 votes. The...
Jama Berry
Ozark County incumbent Assessor Jama Berry secured 1,425 votes in the Aug. 6 Primary Election, meaning 76.41% of the ballots were cast in her favor, according to Ozark County's unofficial election results. Her challenger Kim Wilson received 440 votes.
Both candidates ran on the Republican ballot....
Jim Britt
According to the unofficial Ozark County election results, Jim Britt won the contest for eastern district commissioner in the Aug. 6 Primary Election with 589 votes, taking 66.70% of the ballots cast in the race. His challenger Michael Warren received 294 votes.
Both candidates ran on the...
Dakota Driskell, 19, of West Plains, was killed in an early morning rollover crash Tuesday, Aug. 6, on KK Highway, six miles west of Pottersville, in Ozark County. Her passenger, Travis J. Grubbs, 18, also of West Plains, was taken to the hospital after sustaining minor injuries in the collision. ...
photo courtesy of Michelle Farmer The Bakersfield School gym was packed during a July 20 benefit auction and dinner held in honor of Harley and Alex Smith, who lost their 1-year-old son Kooper unexpectedly in May due to complications with an illness.
In the true neighbor-helping-neighbor community spirit Bakersfield is known for, a July 20 benefit auction and dinner held in honor of Harley and Alex Smith raised a total of $51,704. The Smiths are the parents of 1-year-old Kooper Smith who died unexpectedly May 23 from complications resulting...
Times photo/Regina Mozingo Seven puppies were found in a Gainesville trash cart July 9 by a GFL Environmental employee as he emptied the trash into the trash truck. Since that time, the community has come together to raise and care for the puppies, including giving them lots of attention, as these girls have. Five of the puppies are pictured here, and another one has been adopted by OCSD Sheriff’s Deputy and K9 handler Josh Sherman. The seventh puppy died before the trash worker found it. Pictured, from left, are: front row: Riley Williams, Adeline Pine and Nyla Schlemmer. Back row: Valerie Campbell and Alyssa Smith.
It was around 7:30 a.m. July 9, when GFL Environmental employee Jason McDermott was emptying trash carts in Gainesville that he came across something that stopped him dead in his tracks.
Seven newborn puppies, wrapped in a soiled birthing blanket, had been tied inside a grocery sack and left to...