Gainesville

During the upcoming 2018-19 school year, Gainesville High School will offer the option for juniors to attend classes at the South Central Career Center in West Plains, district superintendent Jeff Hyatt told the Times last week. Bus transportation will be provided, and students may only enroll in...

Times photo / Norene Prososki A driver’s education class is being offered in Gainesville’s summer school program for the first time in several years. Participating students include, from right, Holley Stevens, Zach Botts, Andrew Botts and Wesley Stevens. District superintendent Jeff Hyatt, left, teaches the course. Hyatt told the Times he has been a driver’s ed driving instructor for 28 years. When the Times asked if he’d had any scary experiences in his nearly three decades of riding with student drivers, he quipped, “Nerves of steel!”
Summer school classes have begun around the county, and the Gainesville R-V District is especially proud of its increased attendance figures this year. In 2017, Gainesville High School’s summer school had an enrollment of 25 students. This summer, 72 students are enrolled in the high school program...

Martha J. Wood
Theodosia Area Volunteer Fire Department has awarded its first Savannah Leckie Memorial Scholarship to Martha J. Wood, a senior graduating this year from Gainesville High School. TAVFD expressed thanks to all who donated to the fund, which was established last year in memory of the 16-year-old...
The Gainesville High School class of 2018 received scholarship offers totaling more than $662,000, according to high school counselor Melanie DeWeese, who added that the graduates plan to utilize more than $635,000 of those offers.These students were scholarship recipients:Wyatt Wilson:  MFA...
Gainesville Elementary School recently announced its fourth quarter honor roll and also recognized students who had perfect or 97 percent attendance.These students were named to the honor roll:Second grade:  Aubrey Burrow, Keaton Dabney, Haden Evans, Zachary Evans, Mylie Frye, Addison Garrison,...
Gainesville R-V School District recently released the list of junior high and high school students named to the fourth quarter honor roll. All A’sThese students made all A’s during the fourth quarter:Seventh grade: Wyatt Alms, Layla Biby, Michael Dickey, Camden Evans, Daden House, Jessee Latham,...

Mariah Rae Burnett
Bakersfield High School graduating senior Mariah Rae Burnett was awarded a $2,000 MFA Foundation scholarship at the school’s recent awards assembly. Mariah, the daughter of Kim and Ralph Burnett, plans to attend the University of Missouri at Columbia. The scholarship, sponsored by MFA Oil and...
Gainesville School superintendent Jeff Hyatt attended Monday’s meeting of the Ozark County Commission to ask for the commisioners’ help in applying for a government grant that would be used to be build a freestanding preschool building on the Gainesville campus.  Hyatt was accompanied by...
The Gainesville Junior High School baseball team ended a successful season with a 14-1 record. Members of the team are, from left (kneeling), Deric Luna, Camden Evans, Dymon Van Eperen, Colton Lawson, Jon Meals; (standing) Briar Walrath, Wyatt Alms, Mason Jennings, Justus Devries, Jake Leeker,...
Four Ozark County graduating seniors have been awarded scholarships this year from the PFC Matthew J. England Memorial Scholarship fund. Cassy Jean Doebler, Gainesville High School,  received $1,000. Cassy was salutatorian of her class and plans on becoming a pharmacist.  She is entering the pre-...

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