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I’ve been a journalist for 33 years, having started my career right here at the Ozark County Times in 1989.
Back then I started out covering sports, including Gainesville volleyball … and now volleyball is back at GHS after having been dormant for three decades.
Number one, that makes me feel old...
A 58-year-old man called the Ozark County 911 dispatch office around 9:17 p.m. Aug. 16, explaining that he was on the North Fork of the White River in his kayak, was taking on water and was lost. The weather had turned, and it was raining hard and there was a lot of lightning.
“He may be...
It was around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, when a passerby called Ozark County’s 911 dispatch office to report what appeared to be a structure fire at or near a home on County Road 650 in the Dugginsville area, off P13.
The Theodosia Area Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to the scene, with...
Ozark County commissioners on Monday voted to put a half-cent sales tax for law enforcement on the Nov.8 General Election ballot.
Presiding Commissioner John Turner, in making the motion to put the issue before voters, said “In my eight years in office I’ve never asked for a new tax, but I propose...
Girls in first through sixth grades are eligible to participate in the annual Hootin an Hollarin princess pageants, to be held Friday, Sept. 16.
Those who wish to enter the contest must pre-register by Friday, Sept. 9.
The Hootin an Hollarin princess contests, which begin at 2:45 p.m. Friday on the...
Duane and Debbie Grigg, who now live by Lick Creek between Howard’s Ridge and Mammoth in Ozark County, lived along the Kuskokwim River in the Alaska bush for 17 years. The first part of this story, published in last week’s Times, shared some of the adventures the Grigg family had while living in...
Ozark County has now earmarked or spent all of the nearly $1.8 million in federal covid-19 relief funding from the American Recovery Plan Act (ARPA) that was given to the county in 2021 and 2022.
The county received $891,764 in ARPA funds in 2021 and is set to receive about $890,000 in 2022.
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In other business on Monday, county commissioners announced a public forum on a proposed scenic byway (that includes a portion of Ozark County) from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6, in the upstairs courtroom in the Ozark County Courthouse.
The meeting is open to the public, and the commissioners are...
Ozark County commissioners will be discussing an idea to put a half-cent sales tax increase measure on the Nov. 8 General Election ballot during their next regular weekly meeting at 9 a.m. on Aug. 22.
The commissioners meet every Monday at 9 a.m. on the second floor of the Ozark County Courthouse....
Duane Grigg was feeling restless.
It was 1979, and he had been teaching school and coaching at Mountain Home (Arkansas) Junior High School for six years and was yearning for a change.
“The need for adventure was consuming me – it had been all my life,” he said.
Soon Duane and his wife Debbie...