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A scrapbook about the 1965 Hoerman Appreciation Night program, including dozens of news clippings and photos, was compiled for the couple by Irene Rogers Luna (Bridges). After the Hoermans' death, it was kept by the late Geraldine Lovan, who had worked for them from 1959 until they died in 1972. Geraldine's children, from left, Dianna Sue Brundage of Yellville, Arkansas, and Justin Lovan and Debra Ann Jeckstadt, both of Gainesville, donated the scrapbook to the Ozark County Historium, where it is available for viewing.
The children of the late Glen and Geraldine Lovan have donated an historic gift to the Ozark County Historium: A  scrapbook that details the appreciation program held Jan. 29, 1965, at Gainesville High School to honor the late Dr. M. J. Hoerman and his wife, Judy, and celebrate their 25 years of...

Ozark County Volunteer Library board president Joann Krupp, left, and vice president Aletta Moore, shown here in the book-sale area of the library’s basement, are leading a fund-raising effort to install new light fixtures with LED bulbs to replace the old, fluorescent fixtures that are 40 years old.
The Ozark County Volunteer Library is launching a fundraising drive, hoping to raise $3,946 to pay for replacing the library’s fluorescent light fixtures, which were in the building when it was acquired in the 1980s. “Over time, even with good maintenance, they are failing,” said library board vice...

Since moving to Theodosia in March 2020, David and Mildred Brown have operated their small Helping Others ministry, providing boxes of non-perishable food, and sometimes clothing, to area families and individuals in need and helping them in other ways as well.
When David and Mildred Brown moved to Theodosia in March 2020 to enjoy their retirement close to the lake, they opened a little business, Park and Sell, on Highway 160 across from Lutie School. They quickly settled in as members of a nearby church, and David invited every person he saw to come to...
Ozark County Schools start next week, and area school boards are deciding how their schools will start the year in light of rising cases of the covid-19 virus in the area and the recently changed U.S. Centers for Disease Control recommendations. On Aug. 4, the CDC, on its website, CDC.gov, updated...

Magnolia Wind is scheduled to perform at Hootin an Hollarin at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18. The female trio from southwest Missouri combines folk, bluegrass, gospel and old-time music to create a unique Ozarkian sound. Each of the band members plays several instruments including fiddle, mandolin, guitar, bass and banjo. Becca Sein of Stoutland, left, Emalee Flatness of Willard, center, and Maddie Dalton of Lockwood say they love to help continue the tradition of old-time music that originated in the Ozark and Appalachian hills.
The 60th annual Hootin an Hollarin festival, scheduled for Sept. 16-18 on the Gainesville square, is a month away, and members of the Hootin an Hollarin committee have been working behind the scenes to finalize details for the big event. This year’s festival theme is “Celebrating 60 years of Hootin...

This photo of Gainesville is believed to have been taken sometime before 1900, possibly during the 1890s, when Ozark County reached its population peak of 12,145, according to census figures. In the photo, the two-story building on the upper-middle-right side of the image is the former Gainesville School, and the large, two-story white building in the right-corner foreground is the courthouse, standing opposite the row of businesses and the two-story hotel on the west side of the Gainesville square. The two-story home on the left side of the picture, then known as the Ford house, still stands on Third Street. The photo is from the collection of the late Ruby Robins, now preserved in the Ozark County Historium. Robins credited the photo to “Hogard.”
The results of the 2020 census have been released and provide a fascinating look at what has changed in Ozark County over the last decade.    Population decreased 12 percent Ozark County’s population decreased 12 percent over the last decade, according to the most recent census results. The census...

Eighteen firefighters from six volunteer fire departments in three counties graduated July 24 from extensive Firefighter I and II training hosted by Squires VFD. Front row, from left: Squires VFD chief Travis Veldkamp, State Fire Marshal Tim Bean, State Sen. Karla Eslinger, firefighter Joseph Bommarito with Eastern Douglas VFD (front), instructor Damian Seltzer (back) and instructor Roy Crouch with EDVFD, firefighter Josh Sherman with Tecumseh VFD and instructor Shawn Myers with Battlefield Fire Department. Standing, from left: firefighter Hayden Browning with Squires VFD, firefighter Joe Vronis with Cedar Creek VFD, firefighter Aleshia Garrison and baby Charlie with Squires VFD, firefighter Will Garrison with SVFD, Twin Bridges VFD chief Brian Davidson, Pontiac / Price Place chief Khristie Sansone Jacquin, firefighter C.J. Sicilia with SVFD (back), firefighter Drake Garrison with SVFD (partially hidden behind Eslinger), firefighter Blake Cain with SVFD, firefighter (and treasurer) Michael Schiff with SVFD, firefighter Michael Andrews with SVFD, SVFD firefighter and board chairman William Browning, firefighter Isabella Krutsch with EDVFD (back), firefighter Falecia Watson with SVFD, Battlefield Fire Department chief Scott Moore, lead instructor Shane Anderson, and firefighter and instructor Adam Hammett with EDVFD.
Two Ozark Countians were among the 18 firefighters from six area fire departments in three counties who graduated July 24 from a six-month training academy that prepares them to become certified firefighters after they pass the state skills evaluation later this month  and the written exam in...
Century Bank of the Ozarks recently presented a check for $20,000 to Ozark County high schools to be used for student tuition to South Central Career Center in West Plains. Lutie, Bakersfield, Dora and Gainesville schools each received $5,000. Pictured, from left: Brett Mitchell, Dora; Chris Harlin...
Editor’s note: The following terminology may help readers understand the list below: A suspended imposition of sentence (SIS) means that a defendant has not had a prison sentence imposed at sentencing. Instead, the immediate punishment is supervised probation. If he or she successfully completes...
Two bank representatives were present at Monday’s Ozark County Commissioners’ meeting for the formal opening of financing bids for two large county purchases, a sheriff’s department patrol vehicle and a county road grader. Mason Eslinger, Gainesville branch manager for Stockmens Bank, and Weston...

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