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The Ozark County Children’s Division is partnering with local churches and individuals to help meet the needs of the families and children they serve. The Helping Hands faith-based initiative will hold an informational meeting, open to the public, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at First...
Friends and local residents have organized some ways to help Karl and Sonya Thaning while Karl recovers from Guillain-Barre syndrome. Here are three different fundraisers aimed at helping the couple through this difficult time.
Barnett Raptor crossbow raffle
The Ozark County Sheriff’s Department...
Hardenville resident Ida Mae Huse, who turns 90 on Feb. 25, was honored recently with a 50-year membership pin presented by fellow members of Xi Chapter, Delta Kappa Gamma, an international professional women educators society.
After 18 years of classroom teaching, in 1968 Ida Mae was unexpectedly...
The Gainesville Board of Aldermen will hold a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, concerning Town & Country Supermarket’s request for a liquor license. All citizens are invited to attend the meeting.
The liquor license application, reported in the Jan. 30 edition of the Times, comes in...
Briar Creek Retreat in Theodosia will host an open house from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, welcoming the community to see the first stage of a respite retreat for pastors and missionaries that began in 2005 when Navy Sr. Chief Mike Hatcher, while stationed on Guam, received what he...
An intrepid group of spelunkers was at Cloud 9 Ranch last week, venturing into several caves on the property, sometimes crawling on their bellies through low-ceilinged, water-filled, creek-bed passageways they call “ear-dippers” and “nose splashers” to survey the biology of the caves, looking for...
Gainesville resident Karl Thaning started his day Dec. 14 like any other, totally unaware that by the end of the night he would be unable to move any part of his body from the neck down. The temporary paralysis is a result of a rare neurological disorder, Guillain-Barre syndrome, which Karl...
The Ozark County Children’s Division is partnering with local churches and individuals to help meet the needs of the families and children they serve. The Helping Hands faith-based initiative will hold an informational meeting, open to the public, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, at First...
Opal Bearden will celebrate her 90th birthday from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, at a gathering hosted by her family at the First Christian Church in Gainesville.
She was born Feb. 21, 1929, in West Frankfort, Illinois, the oldest of William and Hattie McCollum’s five children. In 1947, Opal...
Hunter Bentley and Makenzie Lester crowned at 2019 Bakersfield Homecoming
Members of the 2019 Bakersfield Homecoming royal court are, from left, front, crown bearer Kurt Watlington, freshman attendant Hannah Bean, sophomore attendant Grace Miller, junior attendant Erin Heavener, homecoming queen...