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Marlin Wallace beat out competitor Dale Schofield 86 to 75 in the race for Republican Committeeman for Big Creek Township during the Aug. 2 Primary Election, according to unofficial results from Ozark County Clerk Brian Wise. There was one write in candidate as well.
See next week's Times for a...
Terry Newton took home the most votes for Ozark County Presiding Commissioner in the Aug. 2 Primary Election with 742 residents casting a ballot in his favor, compared with 598 ballots cast for incumbent John Turner and 411 ballots cast for candidate Joe Corbin, according to unofficial results from...
Circuit Judge Calvin Holden has found that Theodosia resident Rebecca Ruud is not guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, abuse of a child, and tampering with evidence.
She was found guilty of only one charge, abandonment of a corpse. It is a class E felony with a maximum sentence of...
Tickets are now on sale for the Ozark County Historium’s annual summertime tea, to be held at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 4, at the Historium building on the square in Gainesville.
This year’s theme is “fresh cut flowers,” and Heather Hoffman of Rock Hill Flower Farm in Pottersville will be the...
There are few pests that gardeners here love to hate as much as squash bugs - and for good reason.
Flourishing gardens in early spring can take a sharp turn as tiny copper-colored eggs tucked inconspicuously onto the undersides of leaves begin hatching into droves of hungry nymphs that seem to...
Gainesville resident Carol Cooper says she’s been checking her blooming milkweed everyday, but the lack of Monarch larva on the plants is making for a disappointing summer.
“No Monarchs. No eggs yet,” she told the Times last week, adding that in past years she’d helped to raise the Monarchs who...
If there’s a silver lining to a drought, in Ozark County many low-water crossings that are typically underwater due to swollen lakes are crossable this year.
Ozark County Commissioners said the only low-water crossing that’s still closed is Haskins Ford on County Road 863 where the Little North...
Ozark County received good news Monday during a mid-year health insurance checkup.
County commissioners heard from John McCarty with Arch Brokerage, the county’s health insurance provider.
McCarty attended the commissioners’ regular Monday morning meeting and reported that the county has filed only...
Corey T. Lawrence, 33, of Theodosia, was killed in a head-on crash at 6:15 p.m. July 27 on Highway 160, one mile west of Theodosia.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol online crash report, Lawrence was traveling westbound on Highway 160 in a 2000 Ford Crown Victoria with 35-year-old...