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The Center is in great need of monthly donations, as board members explain that the organization’s regular donations have slowed considerably since receiving ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funding from the Ozark County Commissioners late last year.
Organizers note that the ARPA funds could only...
The following events have been scheduled over the Fourth of July weekend.
Saturday, July 2
Theodosia golf cart parade and fireworks is Saturday, July 2
Fireworks at Theodosia will start at dark Saturday, July 2, over Bull Shoals Lake, viewable from the campground area and adjoining Theodosia...
Theodosia Marina Resort owner Bill Cook remembers Theodosia’s first public fireworks display, 1980-81.
Reprinted from the June 27, 2012 edition of the Times.
I will start by saying that the story I’m about to tell you will not use [many] names, and the reason is to protect all of us. This is a story of how Theodosia got its start with a fireworks show over the water and just how close we came to a...
Many government offices and business will be closed Monday, July 4, in observance of the July 4 holiday. The Ozark County Courthouse, Gainesville City Hall, the Gainesville License Office and The Center will be closed. Banks and post offices will also be closed Monday.
The Ozark County Times...
Rebecca Ruud
Editor’s note: The Rebecca Ruud trial is being held June 27-29 at the Greene County Courthouse in Springfield; however, the Times was only able to recount the first day of trial in this week’s edition due to our press deadline of early Tuesday. We will have an article in next week’s Times about the...
It’s rodeo time in Gainesville this weekend.
The action starts at 8 p.m. Friday, July 1 and Saturday, July 2 at the Gainesville Saddle Club Arena.
Admission is $8 for adults. Kids 10 and under are free.
In addition to the rodeo, organizers said there will a kids’ slip-and-slide on the big hill...
The eagle had what would be the equivalent as a dislocated elbow in a human, Kiger says. The bird was able to be rehabilitated at the zoo, and Kiger released the eagle near the location where it was found.
By Jerry Kiger, MDC
Ozark County conservation agent
On May 24, I received a call about an injured bald eagle here in Ozark County.
I went to the area where the caller told me the eagle was and found it lying on the ground just inside the fence in a cow pasture. As I started getting everything...
Dr. Gillian Henson-Van Wyk joined the Gainesville Veterinary Hospital staff in late May. She’s pictured here at the clinic with an armful of new patients.
Things are busy at the Gainesville Veterinary Hospital, and owner/veterinarians Bryan Luark and Katlin Hornig recently welcomed new veterinarian Dr. Gillian Henson-Van Wyk to the staff to help care for Ozark County residents’ many animal needs.
Henson graduated from veterinary school at Ross...
Ozark County resident Rebecca Ruud is set to face 31st Judicial Circuit Judge Calvin Holden next week for a bench trial where she’s charged with murdering her 16-year-old daughter Savannah Leckie in 2017 and burning the girl’s body in a fire on her off-the-grid farm near Theodosia.
The trial is...
Nurse practitioner Marti Warden recently opened First Call Family Healthcare in Gainesville. She says she’s blessed to have three family members on staff including, from left: Kylee Humphries as office assistant, sister Kelli Humphries for insurance billing and behind-the-scenes support and sister-in-law Teodora Kyle as medical assistant. Times photo/Jessi Dreckman
Gainesville native and nurse practitioner Marti Warden has decided to bring her nearly 25 years of medical experience back to Ozark County with the recent opening of her clinic, First Call Family Healthcare.
Marti, along with clinic staff including sister Kelli Humphries, sister-in-law Teodora...