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Although Ozark County’s historic flood in late April 2017 damaged Rockbridge Rainbow Trout Ranch in a significant way, the resort only paused in its usual operations and was quickly back up and running. Now, a year later, it’s business as usual at the tucked-away resort, which got its start in 1954...
West Plains residents Kris and Greg Hubbard were in Nashville, Tennessee, attending a business meeting in April 2017 when they first got word of the flood back in West Plains – as well as on the North Fork of the White River near Dawt, where they owned a large vacation home. Then they got a cryptic...
Editor’s note: This story, part of our continuing coverage of the survivors of the historic 2017 flood, includes edited excerpts from an email written to us last month by Sandy Johnson, recalling the year since the disaster.
One of the riverside homes destroyed by the April 2017 flood on the...
Elijah Church of Christ’s Vacation Bible School will be held May 20-23, and the theme is “Noah’s Ark Adventure.” Speakers and times for the adult class will be Ashley Pendergrass at 5 p.m. Sunday, May 20, speaking on “Noah Obeys God”; Avery Hackney at 7 p.m. Monday, May 21, speaking on “God Sends a...
Dr. Stephen Lattanzi, hematologist/oncologist, will be featured in a presentation regarding the latest treatments for breast cancer at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 24, at a Living Beyond Breast Cancer meeting at the Peitz Cancer Support House at Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home, Arkansas...
Lyndell Strong brought this huge peony blossom to the Times office to be photographed and shared with our readers. She said she planted it about three years ago, and this is the first year it has bloomed. She first thought it was a poppy coming up in her flower bed, but then it bushed out and...
The owners of 18 Locost cars, homebuilt sports cars built loosely after the Lotus/Caterham 7 cars built in the 1950s and 1960s, spun their way through Ozark County Friday and Saturday, taking in the scenery of the Ozarks and stopping at Hodgson Mill, among other locations.
The Midwest Gathering of...
The Missouri Department of Conservation reports that 33 new cases of chronic wasting disease were found following the testing of 24,486 free-ranging Missouri deer through its 2017-2018 sampling and testing efforts.
The new cases were from the following counties: Adair (3), Cedar (1), Franklin (4...
This is the time of year when the Missouri Department of Conservation reminds motorists to give turtles crossing roads a brake. Turtles are struck by cars throughout all the warmer months but are at special risk this time of year because they are on the move, emerging from their burrows to search...
The Norfork Lake weather is starting to feel like summer, and the striper fishing is really turning on. The shad have not spawned yet, but they are very close. It may still be a few days. The top-water bite is very sporadic right now. As the shad move to the shore the top-water bite will turn on....