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Ozark County has now earmarked or spent all of the nearly $1.8 million in federal covid-19 relief funding from the American Recovery Plan Act (ARPA) that was given to the county in 2021 and 2022.
The county received $891,764 in ARPA funds in 2021 and is set to receive about $890,000 in 2022.
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In other business on Monday, county commissioners announced a public forum on a proposed scenic byway (that includes a portion of Ozark County) from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6, in the upstairs courtroom in the Ozark County Courthouse.
The meeting is open to the public, and the commissioners are...
Ozark County commissioners will be discussing an idea to put a half-cent sales tax increase measure on the Nov. 8 General Election ballot during their next regular weekly meeting at 9 a.m. on Aug. 22.
The commissioners meet every Monday at 9 a.m. on the second floor of the Ozark County Courthouse....
Duane Grigg was feeling restless.
It was 1979, and he had been teaching school and coaching at Mountain Home (Arkansas) Junior High School for six years and was yearning for a change.
“The need for adventure was consuming me – it had been all my life,” he said.
Soon Duane and his wife Debbie...
The 61st annual Hootin an Hollarin festival, scheduled for Sept. 15-17 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 “From Pioneer Ways to Modern...
Editor’s note: The Times offers free news articles for new Ozark County businesses or businesses that have new owners. If you have opened a new business and are interested in being featured, contact Editor Jessi Dreckman at jessi@ozarkcountytimes.com or by calling the Times office at 417-679-4641...
Editor’s note: David Clardy sets a sales table up at the farmers market on the north side of the Gainesville square on Tuesday mornings and at the Hometown Hardware first Saturday farmers market in Theodosia with his homegrown produce, salsa, pickles, jams and syrups and other homegrown and...
The Cubbage family recently gave a donation of $2,450 for Gainesville FBLA and FFA from their annual Cubbage fishing tournament. Shown are, from left, Chelsey Gilmore FBLA sponsor, Julie Cubbage, Jenna Cubbage, Jack Cubbage, Jerry Cubbage and Jon Wilson FFA sponsor. Gainesville School extended a...
In a surprising turn of events, Patricia L. Hobbs, previously charged with driving while intoxicated with drugs causing the death of 59-year-old Michael “Micky” Clark in a Feb. 17, 2020, crash on Highway 5, pleaded guilty by Alford plea to an amended charge of second-degree assault during the Aug....
Ozark County commissioners heard Monday from Cassie Cunningham, a representative of White River Valley Electric Cooperative, who was in town to update the commissioners on a fiber-optic internet project that the cooperative is undertaking.
Cunningham said the WRVEC board voted recently to proceed...