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photo courtesy of Penny Britt Gainesville resident Penny Britt, right, and her mini goldendoodle Archie meet hospice patients in their own homes, as they are here with Shirley Rubis. The registered nurse working with Shirley recommended an Archie-visit to provide comfort and companionship. After an initial visit, Penny and Archie now visit Shirley monthly.
Gainesville resident Penny Britt says her new co-worker Archie fits in well with patients and employees alike at Hospice of the Ozarks. His teddy-bear-like appearance and sweet demeanor wins over most anyone he meets, and he provides a level of quiet and reassuring comfort that only a canine...

Three decades of service Monte Shipley, right, who has served as Dora fire chief for 35 years, and Deputy Chief John Epley, left, and his wife Donna, retired from the Dora Volunteer Fire Department Sept. 1. Both Monte and John helped build the fire station pictured behind them. “It was all built with volunteer labor. First, we had two bays and a community building. Then we ran out of room. We had three trucks, so we added three more bays...”
For more than three decades, Dora volunteer firefighters Monte Shipley and John Epley dropped what they were doing when they heard a fire tone ring out from their belt-clipped radios - and they responded.  During family gatherings, during holidays, during birthdays, in middle of the night and first...

Shirley and Ronnie Garrison’s house on Lake Road 619, off HH Highway south of Isabella, is off the beaten track but attracts a lot of attention this time of year when Shirley and son Heath Garrison create clever seasonal yard displays like these, which feature a huge haybale scarecrow and three straw bales with expressive faces. The designs are illuminated at night, and the Garrisons welcome friends, neighbors and other residents to come by and check it out.
Shirley Garrison and son Heath Garrison have once again transformed the lawn around the Isabella-area home where Shirley lives with husband Ronnie Garrison, into an eye-catching and traffic-stopping seasonal fall display. Even though their home on Lake Road 619, off HH south of Isabella, is well...

Grandpa Homer Roberts’ old 8N Ford tractor still sits on the family farm in Elijah. The tractor was purchased new in Gainesville in the 1950s, and has hauled tons of black walnuts over the years. Times photo/Bruce Roberts.
It’s October in the Ozarks, and the crisp mornings and gentle breezes are ushering in fall colors.  I suspect the lack of rain may hinder a splendorous fall foliage display this fall as it has in past years, but there’s one tree that always looked like money to a poor family during the Jimmy Carter...

This photo of the upper garden at East Wind shows raised rows of greens in the foreground with various trellised plants in the background.
In Ozark County, where many enjoy gardening, there is no shortage of green thumbs. But the passion and skill for growing food stands out especially bright in local resident Richard Goerwitz, the garden manager at East Wind. An intentional community in Tecumseh, East Wind boasts a population of...

Rockbridge Rainbow Trout Ranch is hosting its annual fall festival from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15.
It’s that time of year when pumpkins, apple cider and crisp, fall air set a festive tone in the Ozarks. Listed here are Halloween and fall events that residents can visit or attend in the coming weeks.  Those organizing a local fall or Halloween-themed event can contact Jessi Dreckman at 417-679-...

Times Photo/Bruce Roberts Stanley Link shows off his automatic boat dock winch system that he built in his hangar-turned-machine shop at the Lost Mine Airport on Bull Shoals Lake in southwest Ozark County.
An Ozark County man has invented a device to solve a problem that has plagued boat dock owners for decades. He’s taking dock lowering and raising to another level, if you will. Stanley Link, a retired machinist, has invented a system that lowers and raises boat docks as the lake levels rise or fall...
The March 12, 1942, Zanoni items in the Ozark County Times reported “quite a gain in population.”  The correspondent continued, “Rayburn Loyd Morrison was born to Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Morrison. Two days later, little Aaron Dwain arrived to make his home with Mr. and Mrs. Dawse Morrison. Later, Robert...

Ozark County Community Foundation Board Members Doug Hawkins and Kerrie Zubrod, left, present a $3,500 donation from the organization’s 2022 grant cycle to Ozark County Deputy Josh Sherman. The grant will fund the K9 certification and training of Sherman, allowing him to legally become the handler of K9 officer Rye.
The Ozark County Community Foundation (OCCF) awarded a $3,500 grant to the Ozark County Sheriff Department’s K9 program. The grant proposal, written and submitted by Ozark County Sheriff’s Deputy Seth Miller, was made as part of the OCCF’s 2022 grant round.  The money will be used to train and...

One of the complaints by the grand jury was a single stair railing on the stairs of the courthouse.
By Bruce Roberts bruce@ozarkcountytimes.com   A grand jury convened several weeks ago in Ozark County, and in the days and weeks following, several indictments were handed down ranging from serious to not-so-serious crimes. At the conclusion of its term, the grand jury met in session and toured...

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