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Bruce Sanders, left, and Mark Tyer, visited the Ozark County Commissioners office to discuss preparing a free, county emergency-ready profile for the courthouse, sheriff’s office, recycling center and other county-owned businesses. The men say that Servpro provides the service for free, accumulating all the necessary information about the buildings that would be needed in an emergency. The plan is offered so the company can make connections that in the future may lead to customers considering them for their paid services, which are generally needed in extreme cleaning situations.
The Ozark County Commissioners on Monday gave ServPro the green light to begin an emergency-ready profile (ERP) that can be used to quickly and efficiently regroup after an emergency or natural disaster. ServPro is a national company with more than 1,900 locations, including a Mountain Home,...
Morgan Collins lives in Caulfield with his wife, Terry. The family is well known to many Ozark Countians.
There are few other places where the heart and soul of the Ozarks can be felt more than at a benefit held in honor of a friend and neighbor who has landed in a difficult place. It’s a time when the very best parts of small-town communities are able to shine.
That neighborly support was on full...
Lodema King Haden Bent and her family gathered at the Historium recently. In the photo, Lodema is holding the 400-page book of the history of the John Harvey King family that she is donating to the Historium. Front row, from left: Jenna Haden holding son Luke, Lodema, Michele Haden Walker. Back row: Logan Haden holding son Levi, Mark Haden holding grandson Lincoln Haden, Jeff Haden, Brittney Haden (in front of Jeff), Ty Haden (back), Mike Haden and wife Maissa, Dillon Walker and wife Corinna, and Daniel Walker with wife Kristi and their children Devyn and Daxton.
For Christmas 2019, a few months after Lodema King Haden Bent's 81st birthday, her four adult children gave her cash to spend on herself anyway she chose. She promptly went to Walmart and bought herself a new computer and printer.
She was a woman with a mission.
Her daughter, Michele Haden Walker...
The start of the 2021-22 school year is just around the corner, and Ozark County school districts have announced their registration and start-of-school activities and schedules.
Bakersfield
New student registration is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, Aug. 10-12. New students may come at anytime...
Instructors, handlers and K9s who participated in the recent three-day tracking seminar in Gainesville led by Illinois-based Cedar Creek Kennels gathered in West Plains on the last day of training. From left, West Plains Police Department handler Wes Stewart and K9 Loki, Oregon County Sheriff’s Department handler Rick Matteson and K9 Amul, Cedar Creek Kennels owner Matt Greenlief, Ozark County Sheriff’s Department handler Alan Daffron and K9 Rye, Cedar Creek Kennels trainer Dave Wynne, and Mountain View Police Department handler Michael Pauley and K9 Mark. The K9 training was a prize giveaway in a Cedar Creek Kennels Facebook contest that Ozark County Deputy Sgt. Justin Brown (Rye’s former handler) entered and won.
Ozark County Sheriff’s Department hosted a K9 training program last week that brought together officers and dogs from five area law enforcement agencies.
The three-day tracking seminar was a prize offered by Monmouth, Illinois-based Cedar Creek Kennels LLC, which conducted a Facebook contest that...
The Ozark County Sheriff’s Department officers found Matthew Paul Deever, a defendant who was wanted by police in Greene and Webster Counties for active warrants in various cases, underneath the floor of a Tecumseh-area home July 29.
A post made to the OCSD Facebook page said Sheriff Cass Martin...
photo courtesy of Bull Shoals Lake Package Burglars broke a glass front door and entered the Bull Shoals Lake Package and Outdoor Sportsman store in Theodosia sometime late Thursday, July 26, or in the early morning hours of Friday, July 27. The Ozark County Sheriff’s Department is currently investigating the case.
Personnel from Bull Shoals Lake Package and Outdoor Sportsman, a Theodosia store off Highway 160, said they were overwhelmed by the community support they received after burglars broke through the shop’s glass-pane door. The list of what was taken in the break-in was not available at press time.
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Ozark County Commissioner John Turner, left, and 33rd District Missouri State Senator Karla Eslinger, of Wasola, stand beside a banner recognizing 2021 as Missouri’s Bicentennial. The banner, which will be displayed in the Ozark County Courthouse, notes Ozark County’s organization in 1841 and...
The two hospitals closest to Ozark County announced last week that they had reached new highs in the number of patients admitted for treatment of covid-19 as virus cases surged through the area. Sunday evening, the Missouri Department of Health and Human Services covid-data website showed Ozark,...
photos submitted by GHS staff A crew with Robby Strain Concrete, assisted by other area contractors, smooths concrete on a portion of the Gainesville High School gym that was revealed when the gym’s original, fixed-in-place bleachers were removed and the locker rooms under the bleachers were filled in. See page 16 for more photos of the gym-renovation process.
Work on the remodeled interior of the Gainesville High School gym is nearing completion, says Gainesville superintendent Justin Gilmore. The gymnasium project is the first step in a major renovation that will also include adding a new 7,792-square-foot structure onto the front of the 58-year-old...