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Matthew C. Taber, 47, of Gainesville, was sentenced on Monday to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay $10,000 in victim restitution by Associate Judge Elizabeth Bock in connection with the serious assault of Edward “Dean” Dossett in November 2013. Taber will be required to serve at least 85...
Haden Evans, 9, happily shows his collection of eggs gathered at First Christian Church’s 2018 community Easter egg hunt in Gainesville. This year’s FCC egg hunt is set for 10 a.m. Saturday, April 20.
Easter is Sunday, April 21, and several area churches and organizations are hosting Easter egg hunts in and near Ozark County. To have your Easter event added to next week’s Easter activities list, email jessi@ozarkcountytimes.com or call the Times office at 417-679-4641.
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Times photos / Amelia LaMair
Ozark County Recycling Center manager Eric Lee stands beside the dumpster that was delivered recently at the recycling center to hold trash collected by volunteers and individuals participating in Ozark County’s “Clean Up Trash Month,” which continues throughout April. The dumpster, just inside the...
Times photo / Sue Ann Jones The Ozark County Ambulance District is staffing a second ambulance unit, beginning with a two-person crew of emergency medical technicians, Aaron Bellcock, right, and Joe Bogowith, shown here with ambulance district administrator Stacy Raney, left. The second unit will be available to work 12-hour shifts on select weekends, with the schedule expected to progress to four 10-hour days during times of greatest anticipated need based on major holiday schedules and statistics tracked by the district.
After operating a single ambulance unit 24/7 for several years, the Ozark County Ambulance District board at its March meeting voted unanimously to move forward with plans to staff a second ambulance.
The plan will begin with an additional two-person crew, EMTs Aaron Bellcock and Joe Bogowith, who...
Lola Collins, 4, daughter of Seth and Dara Collins, shows the morels she and her dad found while hunting in the woods near their Noble home.
Reprinted with permission of the News-Leader
Temperatures are warming nicely, and there’s been plenty of rain.
And expert morel mushroom hunter Ron Cook is already getting excited.
“We’re in for an epic morel season in Missouri,” said Cook. “The conditions are really right for them. The season...
Lions Club members Bill Trivitt, left, and Chris Harlin of Century Bank of the Ozarks display just a few of the many items that will be up for auction this Friday night at Gainesville High School. The auction, a yearly event, helps fund the summer ball program as well as scholarships and other Lions Club projects.
Plans are underway for the Gainesville Lions Club’s 32nd annual auction and sportsman raffle to be held Friday night, April 12, at Gainesville High School. This year’s raffle, held in conjunction with the auction, includes 14 firearms, a gun safe, a kayak, a utility trailer, flying drone and other...
Gainesville superintendent Jeff Hyatt said he is “sorely disappointed” in the results of the April 2 general municipal election in which voters turned down the school district’s two financial proposals – one for facility improvements and one for building a new gymnasium.
Monday, he expressed some...
This photo, from the Missouri State Beekeepers Association, shows Boone County beekeepers Nancy and Domenic Giofre collecting a honey bee swarm. For more information, visit the MSBA website (mostatebeekeepers.org).
The Missouri State Beekeepers Association asks residents to be aware that honey bees swarm during the spring when they’re looking for a new home. Swarms usually appear as a large, vibrating lump of bees that may be found clinging to a car bumper, a fence, a tree limb, a porch rail – or just about...
For 47 years, Wade Turner has driven throughout three counties delivering feed from Donley Feed Mill in Thornfield. The feed mill closed recently, but the company continues to sell fertilizer.
Editor’s note: This story and photos are reprinted with permission from the Ozarks Alive! blog by Kaitlyn McConnell. To see more of McConnell’s stories about the people and places of the Ozarks, visit ozarksalive.com.
THORNFIELD – As dawn breaks against the quiet black of night, Wade Turner puts on...
Despite serious vision problems, Lena Blair finds way to keep sewing. In the above photo, she uses two very bright Ott lights to help.
Quilts are once again covering the walls at the Historium in Gainesville as the colorful creations of Ozark County native Leda Howard Blair are now on display. The collection is only a small sampling of a large number of quilts Leda has made since she began her retirement hobby in 2000. Her special...