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Photos submitted Gainesville Elementary student Owen Hogan attended this year’s Missouri Association of School Librarians Annual Spring Conference as a presenter of the 2021 Show Me Readers Awards, which are awarded based on votes from students. One of the authors he presented an award to was Stef Wade, pictured with Owen in the photo above, the author of one of his favorite books, A Place for Pluto.
Gainesville Elementary School third grader and avid reader Owen Hogan was dressed sharp April 10 when he attended the Missouri Association of School Librarians Annual Spring Conference, held in Osage Beach. Owen is the son of Kyle Hogan and Sarah Hogan.
During the Readers Award Banquet portion of...
Photo by Shana Hambelton Dora bus mechanic Matt Baldridge stands in front of a Dora School bus recently. Dora, Bakersfield, Gainesville and Thornfield all received a 100 percent rating during recent Missouri State Highway Patrol bus inspections.
Four Ozark County schools received perfect scores on school bus inspections recently.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol performs school bus inspections to ensure buses are safe and mechanically sound.
Ozark County schools in Dora, Bakersfield, Gainesville and Thornfield all received a 100 percent...
This football signed by Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is one of the many items up for auction during the annual Gainesville Lions Club auction. Proceeds from the event are used for the summer ball program in Gainesville, as well as Lions Club scholarships and projects.
The annual Gainesville Lions Club Auction will be held at 7 p.m. this Friday, April 22, at Gainesville High School.
A dinner featuring chili and cinnamon rolls will be served at 6 p.m. The cost is $1, which also enters the attendee into several drawings throughout the evening.
This year’s...
Photo submitted Cody Smyth (pronounced Sm-eye-th) sustained severe burns to 82 percent of his body in a car fire when he was 2 years old. Despite the challenge, he serves as a BRVFD firefighter.
It was a little over two decades ago in North Dakota when a horrific event forever changed the course of Cody Smyth’s life. As a 2-year-old boy, Smyth was involved in a tragic car fire that left 82 percent of his body severely burned.
Now the 24-year-old man, who has found a home in Ozark County,...
In 2020, Rob Collins cleaned the face of this historic building on the west side of the Gainesville square that once housed Century Bank of the Ozarks. Now, on behalf of the Gainesville Lions Club, member Linda Harlin is drafting a grant proposal that will be submitted to the White River Valley Electric Cooperative's Plugged In Grant Program aimed at having more buildings on and near the Gainesville square cleaned. If you are a building owner in that area and would like to be included in the project (and haven't spoke with Harlin already), please contact the Ozark County Times at 417-679-4641 to leave a business name and phone number. Leave a message if there is no answer. If the project is chosen to be funded by the grant program, the cleaning would be paid for by the grant and not the building owners.
On behalf of the Gainesville Lions Club, member Linda Harlin is currently preparing a grant proposal that will be submitted to the White River Valley Electric Cooperative’s Plugged In Grant Program aimed at sprucing up the building exteriors for businesses on (or near) the Gainesville square. The...
Anastasia Goodson
Gainesville student Anastasia Goodson was awarded a Hagan Scholarship to attend School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Hagan Scholarship is a nationwide need-based merit scholarship designed to help high-achieving students graduate college debt-free.
The scholarship provides up to $6,000 each...
Dora High School math teacher Sheree Nold and her husband Shelby moved to Dora in the summer of 2015.
Dora School • high school math, FCA, track/cross country
Dora high school math teacher Mrs. Sheree Nold began her career at Dora in fall of 2020, and her positive attitude and outlook have been a cheerful addition to the staff at the small school in northeast Ozark County.
“You can tell by the...
In an odd turn of events, a Bakersfield School Board candidate who won a seat on the board was forced to resign on Election Day because an updated plat map and aerial photos showed his house was just a few feet outside of the district lines.
Brad Maynard was the number two vote-getter in a three-...
Times photo/Jessi Dreckman Connor Strack of Mountain Home, Arkansas, installed this life jacket loaner station at the Tecumseh boat ramp as part of this Eagle Scout project. He also installed stations at Gamaliel, Cranfield and Panther Bay.
There’s a new life jacket loaner station installed at the Tecumseh access and three other boat ramps and swim beaches on Norfork Lake thanks to the hard work of Mountain Home, Arkansas, resident Connor Strack.
The life jacket loan stations were completed as an Eagle Scout Project by Strack with...
Times photo/Bruce Roberts The Bakersfield School greenhouse is chock full of plants and veggies that will be available during a one-day sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. this coming Saturday, April 16, at the school. Shown are students, from left, Waylon McCollum, Trace Luna, FFA advisor Jordan Grigg and Alexis McGhee, as they prune coleus plants.
The Bakersfield FFA and horticulture class has been working hard this past winter making major upgrades to their greenhouse and now has it stuffed wall-to-wall with vegetables and flowers they hope to sell at a one-day plant sale this Saturday.
“We’ve been busy,” said Bakersfield FFA advisor Jordan...