News
Wasola business, The Concrete Works, has partnered with Noble Concrete & Precast. Photo, above: Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe, center in green shirt, views the progress of the new batch plant going up in Lamar with the managerial staff of Noble Concrete & Precast.
Wasola-area business, The Concrete Works LLC, has expanded to a second location in partnership with Noble Concrete & Precast LLC of Lamar.
The expansion increases the production of the current plant almost 10-fold with additional trucks, employees, state-of-the-art batch plant, ready-mix...
Each year during Hootin an Hollarin, festival organizers take a little time out of the hustle and bustle of activity to give some well-deserved recognition to a few stand-out community members. At this year’s festival, the following people will be recognized on the main stage (read more about each...
Times photo/Norene Prososki Contestants in this year’s Hootin an Hollarin queen pageant are, from left, front row: Mary Jane Flygare, Ashley Dunn, Claire Turner, Carrie Richer, Joslyne Trout, and Catelyn Flummer. Back row: Sunnie Demorest, Emily McClure, Cheynne Wachtele and Lakely Anderson.
Welcome to the 62nd celebration of Hootin an Hollarin, one of the longest-running festivals in Missouri.
For the next three days, the Gainesville square will be transformed from its normal quiet, week-day business tempo into a vibrant mixture of music, talented crafters, old-time demonstrators and...
A Tecumseh man was killed Saturday when his 2011 Harley Davidson motorcycle crossed the centerline of U.S. Highway 160 about 3 miles east of Gainesville and struck a pickup truck.
Todd D. Huddleston, 57, of Tecumseh was killed in the 3:10 p.m. crash that closed Highway 160 for nearly three hours...
A big crowd at Springfield-Branson National Airport welcomed Gaines-ville resident Norman Hartman and other veterans when they returned from an Aug. 23 Honor Flight of the Ozarks trip to Washington, D.C. Norman's wife, Gerry (pictured above left, with Norman), and other relatives were in the crowd. Gerry said the welcome was "the most exciting thing I've ever seen."
Wednesday, Aug. 23, wasn't just a red-letter day for Gainesville resident Norman Hartman. It was a red-white-and-blue-letter day when he soared to Washington, D.C., on an Honor Flight of the Ozarks in recognition of his military service in the 1950s and 60s.
Norman, 86, said his grandson Dylan...
Ozark County Presiding Commissioner Terry Newton said Monday that about half of the 30 or so letters the county sent out to residents in a mostly off-grid community notifying them of address changes have been returned by the post office.
“About 14 were sent back to us saying they didn’t have...
Times photo/Jenny Yarger Gainesville Bulldogs cross country runners are pictured on the wooded course near the Gainesville track that will be used at the school’s first-ever cross country meet Friday afternoon. The wooded course was developed by the Ozark County Wellness Committee as a multipurpose trail, available to the public and to the school for its running sports. Pictured, from left: Ryder Murphy, John Botts-Papcke, McCray Hambelton and Zeke Yarger.
This Friday will mark a moment in history for the Gainesville School District as it hosts its first-ever cross country meet. The Gainesville Bulldog Classic is scheduled to begin at 3:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15, with teams meeting at the Gainesville track. Organizers are hoping the community will...
Ozark County Commissioners have decided not to take action on a recently implemented law that would freeze property taxes for senior citizens and allow retirement and Social Security income to be tax deductible under certain conditions.
Senate Bill 190 was signed into law in Missouri and went into...
One of the most anticipated bands that will take the stage this Hootin an Hollarin is Sylamore Special, a group of teenagers and young adults who play traditional bluegrass and have racked up quite an impressive array of awards and accolades including their two-time performance at the Smithsonian Folklore Festival in Washington D.C. two years in a row, where the photo above was taken.
Hootin an Hollarin is just two weeks away on Sept. 21-23, and this year’s main stage live entertainment lineup is a good one, bringing in several new bands paired with some festival favorites.
The Times is publishing its annual Hootin an Hollarin festival guide next week, giving readers a profile...
Times photo/Bruce Roberts For the first time since the covid pandemic began in 2020, Dora school has an enrollment of over 300 students in pre-k through twelfth grades. This year, Ozark County school enrollment is as follows: Thornfield (K-8) has 50 students, Lutie has 120 students, Dora has 318 students, Bakersfield has 421 students and Gainesville has 665 students. Combined, the county-wide student total at public schools is a little over 1,500 for the 2023-24 school year.
Year after year, Ozark County schools seem to be growing with increasing enrollment numbers over previous years.
Even though it’s early in the school year, and numbers may actually go up with late registrations, local schools had strong beginning-of-the-year enrollment figures for the 2023-24...