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Gainesville Health Care Center on Highways 5 south / 160 west invites area residents to join a Mother’s Day parade through the GHCC parking area to wish residents and loved ones there a happy day. Administrator Sherri Beasley said the parade will begin at 2 p.m. Friday, May 8, and participants are...
A celebration of the life of former Pontiac / Price Place Volunteer Fire Department chief Art Streigle will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 16, at PPPVFD station #2 on W Highway 4 miles from High-way 5 south. The memorial service will be followed at 4:30 p.m. by a fundraiser dinner to help the...
Gene Cherry manned the donation site at Gainesville High School during the Ozark County Food Drive Wednesday, April 29. Cherry was one of several volunteers working that day at Bakersfield, Gainesville, Lutie, Dora and Thornfield schools to collect nonperishable food and monetary donations for the Ozark County Food Pantry.
Generous Ozark Countians contribute food, paper goods and cash during April 29 food drive
A woman with a desire to help, a group of willing volunteers and a generous community made for a successful Ozark County Food Drive Wednesday, April 29. Organized by Debbie Daniel of Theodosia, nine volunteers...
Lain McCanless and Aspyn Britt didn’t let the gathering restrictions related to the current COVID-19 pandemic keep them from celebrating their upcoming nuptials with friends and family. Instead, they embraced the chaos with a drive-thru wedding shower Saturday at the Assembly of God Church in...
Gainesville Head Start teachers, from left, Wendy Tetrick, Jody Argabright and Nancy Simpson greeted their Head Start students at a “drive-by graduation” ceremony April 30 at Hoerman Memorial Park in Gainesville. The teachers congratulated each student and gave him or her a new backpack filled with...
Treva Warrick works with Melvin Taylor to complete his taxes during a drive-thru tax-help session last week at The Center in Gainesville. Warrick said she has worked in tax counseling for the elderly, a program that provides free tax assistance for seniors in the area, for the last 28 years. The...
Ozark County native Bailey Ray and Gravois Mills paramedic Jordy Ashley were married April 15 in Camdenton after their original wedding plans were turned upside down, first by government guidelines aimed at slowing the spread of the COVID-19 virus – and then when Jordy developed symptoms of the virus himself. They’re shown here with Bailey’s parents, Crystal and Dwain Ray of Wasola.
In a relatively short few months’ span of time, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world in more ways than could possibly have been imagined. Ordinary lives and routines have been altered to the point of being almost unrecognizable. The face of how we work, socialize, educate and worship has...
At their weekly meeting Monday, county commissioners discussed the more than $1 million in federal funds that is coming to the county from the CARES act. The meeting was live streamed on Facebook and can be viewed on the “Ozark County” Facebook page.
At press time Tuesday, no positive cases of the COVID-19 virus had been reported in Ozark County, according to Ozark County Health Department administrator Rhonda Suter, but soon the county will be getting federal funds to spend on protection from the virus or for responding to it if and when it...
Stockmens Bank reopened its lobby Monday after the month-long COVID-19 shutdown that caused banks and other offices and businesses to close their lobbies and work behind locked front doors. The bank’s new plexiglas “sneeze guards” that protect tellers, including Arlene Merriman, left, and Kaitlin Conrad, are hard to see in the photo, but they’re there.
Gov. Mike Parson’s Stay Home, Missouri order was lifted Monday, allowing Missourians to venture out again after being directed since April 13 to stay at home unless they were employed in “essential” businesses or travel or dealing with emergencies. In response, many Ozark County offices and...
Newton Mining Company’s principal founders were apparently Isidor Bush, whose name was sometimes spelled Busch, above, and Woldemar August “Gustavus” Fischer, below. Fischer was born in Germany; Bush was born in the Czech Republic. Both men served as officers in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Over the past two centuries, there have been many who came to Ozark County in search of something. For some it has been tranquility, for some a desire to be independent and for some a quest for spiritual enrichment.
We tend to hear little or nothing about those who came seeking fortunes, probably...