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The annual “Light up the Lake” fireworks display at Pontiac Cove will begin at dark Saturday, Sept. 3, over Bull Shoals Lake in Pontiac. If the weather is rainy or stormy, the event will be held the next night, Sunday, Sept. 4.
The longtime Fourth of July show transitioned to a Labor Day weekend...
The Caulfield Community Building was all abuzz with activity recently.
On Friday it was the site of a special 100th birthday party for local matriarch Blanche Tackitt Langston Harden (see related story, page 16), but the real buzz was on Saturday when local beekeeper Lucas Hensley and his wife...
“Aunt Blanche” as she is lovingly called by dozens of family and friends around the Caulfield and Elijah area, celebrated her 100th birthday with a big party at the old Caulfield Community Building Friday night.
Lena Blanche Tackitt Langston Harden was born on Aug. 26, 1922 in Lavaca, Arkansas to...
The average life expectancy for an American is 78 years-old for men and 82 years-old for women. Less than one percent of us will live to be 100.
So Aug. 25 was a special day for Waukee Poe, a lifelong Ozark County native who’s spent most of her life in-and-around Udall and now lives in Springfield...
I’ve been a journalist for 33 years, having started my career right here at the Ozark County Times in 1989.
Back then I started out covering sports, including Gainesville volleyball … and now volleyball is back at GHS after having been dormant for three decades.
Number one, that makes me feel old...
A 58-year-old man called the Ozark County 911 dispatch office around 9:17 p.m. Aug. 16, explaining that he was on the North Fork of the White River in his kayak, was taking on water and was lost. The weather had turned, and it was raining hard and there was a lot of lightning.
“He may be...
It was around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, when a passerby called Ozark County’s 911 dispatch office to report what appeared to be a structure fire at or near a home on County Road 650 in the Dugginsville area, off P13.
The Theodosia Area Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to the scene, with...
Ozark County commissioners on Monday voted to put a half-cent sales tax for law enforcement on the Nov.8 General Election ballot.
Presiding Commissioner John Turner, in making the motion to put the issue before voters, said “In my eight years in office I’ve never asked for a new tax, but I propose...
Girls in first through sixth grades are eligible to participate in the annual Hootin an Hollarin princess pageants, to be held Friday, Sept. 16.
Those who wish to enter the contest must pre-register by Friday, Sept. 9.
The Hootin an Hollarin princess contests, which begin at 2:45 p.m. Friday on the...
Duane and Debbie Grigg, who now live by Lick Creek between Howard’s Ridge and Mammoth in Ozark County, lived along the Kuskokwim River in the Alaska bush for 17 years. The first part of this story, published in last week’s Times, shared some of the adventures the Grigg family had while living in...