Dora junior Isaac Haney drives around a defender during Saturday’s 86-58 victory over Lakeland (14-1) at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar. Haney, who topped a career 2,000 points on Jan. 7 when the Falcons defeated Alton, led the scoring with 42 points. Photo by Karla Smith

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Ozark County Health Department director Rhonda Suter, left, pharmacist Sandra Wade and physician Masa Kinoshita, members of the Ozark County Substance Abuse Task Force, wrote and submitted proposals to two separate grant programs in December 2019 that were recently accepted for funding. The task force was notified that it will receive a $340,000 grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health and $2,500 grant from Christian Research Hospital.

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Jason Laird

This recent drone photo shows the heavy damage that has existed at the access since an historic April 30, 2017, flood.

William Randolph Hearst, who inherited his father’s newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner in 1887, was nicknamed “Billy Buster” by his parents George and Phoebe Hearst. The name inspired Hearst’s co-worker Richard Outcaul to create a comic strip featuring Billy Buster, a boy with similar traits to Hearst. After Outcault sold an advertising license for the character to George Warren Brown of Brown Shoe Company in St. Louis, Brown’s portrayal of the Buster Brown character took hold, and Buster Brown became a household name in the early 1900s. The success of Buster Brown in the shoe industry and other marketing avenues was long lived, and families coast to coast recognized the name for nearly a century. It’s thought that the term’s widespread popularity may be linked to the name given to a site near Howards Ridge where today’s J Highway crosses Lick Creek.