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Nine-year-old Brody Shelby was honored Saturday by friends, family and a large group of area firefighters and other emergency personnel in a memorial service at Grace Baptist Church west of Gainesville.
Brody, the son of Bobbie Jo Shelby and the stepson of James E. Walley Jr, a firefighter with...
The Gainesville square is getting some decorative updates and additional benches this week, thanks to Ozark County Chamber of Commerce projects using funds from the White River Valley Electric Cooperative Plugged In grant initiative.
Chamber member Linda Harlin applied for the grant funds to...
Tecumseh resident Matthew Weatherman has been appointed as the next Ozark County Prosecuting Attorney and is set to begin his duties here Dec. 1. He will fulfill the remaining year left in the term of retiring prosecutor John Garrabrant.
“I’m looking forward to being here and meeting everyone soon...
Gainesville’s “Wonders of Christmas” event will be held Friday evening, Dec. 10, on the square.
Craft, food or game vendors are welcome to set up on the square free of charge. Booths can operate from 5 p.m. until the end of the festival. To sign up or to request more information about booths,...
Ozark County Wellness Committee member Karen Brantingham, second from right, recently accepted a $20,000 donation from the Ozark County Community Foundation (OCCF) for improvements to the walking trail project the committee started in 2020. The funds will go toward making the trail more accessible...
Gainesville High School agriculture teacher and FFA adviser Jon Wilson has a signature haircut (or lack thereof) and epic mustache that makes him one of the most recognizable teachers around - but what students really remember about him goes far beyond his appearance. His personable teaching style...
The Ozark County Times reported in its March 1, 1918, edition that about 200 friends and neighbors gathered Saturday, Feb. 23, at the home of “Uncle Carroll Beasley” near Romance to share a dinner in honor of four “boys” about to leave for Army training camp. The Times reported that the four...
These excerpts from soldiers’ letters (and a Navy press release) that were published in the Ozark County Times in decades past, often under the heading, “From our soldier boys,” remind us of the dedication and heroism of Ozark County’s military men and woman in uniform during wartime.
We are...
Editor’s note: This story about World War II veteran Emmit “Skip” Payton is reprinted from the Oct. 12, 2011, edition of the Times. Payton died June 17, 2017, at age 95. His widow, Margie, now 94, still lives in their house on Rainbow Ridge near Haskins Ford.
In 1943, Emmit “Skip” Payton shipped...
Editor’s note: This profile of Vietnam veteran Dan Morgan is reprinted, with minor editing, from the Nov. 10, 2010, edition of the Times. Morgan, who lived in Sycamore with his wife, Joyce, died in 2012 at age 63. The story tells of his surprise encounter in Vietnam with Dick Mahan, who had grown...