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This year’s Back to School Fair at Dora will be held from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 4, in the Dora School cafeteria. Free clothing, shoes, haircuts and other goods and services will be available to students at the event. Organizers expressed thanks to area churches and individuals who have...
The Ozark County Health Department is accepting financial donations for school supplies as part of the Ozark County Inter-Agency Council’s program to help provide free school supplies to Gainesville students who need them.Health department administrator Rhonda Suter says OCHD staff members are able...

Photo/Karla Smith Gainesville Cardinals The Gainesville Cardinals took first place in the coach-pitch 6- to 8-year-old boys division of the summer ball program. Members of the team were, from left, (front row) D.J. Howard, Parker Gilmore, Ty Alms, Jake Hogan, Luke Hogan; (back row) Zach Evans, Silas Moody, Howard Wade, Dylan Jennings,Carson Nielson and Jaxon Headrick. The boys were coached by Spencer Wade, back row left, and Justin Gilmore, back row right.
“Without the help of many people, the kids wouldn’t have this opportunity.”Morris Jenkins, league coordinator Almost 350 local children participated in this year’s summer ball program. Thirty-one teams – 21 from Gainesville, nine from Bakersfield and one from Dora –competed in the league, which is...
West Plains Savings and Loan recently made a donation to the Dora FFA program at Dora School to help with the cost of installing an automatic water system. Pictured, from left, are WPSL employees Niki Luna and Chris Orr, FFA members Dylan Martin, Laurin Marin, Charli Howard and Andi Howard, and...
The 16th annual Dora Classic golf tournament will be held at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, at the West Plains Municipal Golf Course. The entry fee for the 18-hole, two-person scramble is $110 per team and includes pizza, drinks and Mulligans. The tournament will have four flights with four...

Times photos/Norene Prososki
Close to 70 people attended Monday night’s informal information session at Gainesville High School regarding the 75-cent levy increase proposal that will appear on the Aug. 7 primary election ballot. The increase would bring the school levy from the state minimum of  $2.75 to $3.50, still one of...

If the Gainesville R-V School District's 75-cent levy-increase proposal is approved by voters in the Aug. 7 primary, the district will replace interior and classroom doors with high-security doors that offer better protection for students and teachers. Here, district business manager Allisa West shows one of the original interior doors in the 55-year-old school that would be replaced. Times photo / Jenny Yarger
It's been 25 years since Gainesville R-V School District voters approved a levy increase. That 1993 increase, of about 30 cents per $100 assess valuation, was dedicated exclusively to fund the construction of the "new" elementary school. And when that facility was completely paid for in 2008, the...

If the Gainesville R-V School District's 75-cent levy-increase proposal is approved by voters in the Aug. 7 primary, the district will replace interior and classroom doors with high-security doors that offer better protection for students and teachers. Here, district business manager Allisa West shows one of the original interior doors in the 55-year-old school that would be replaced. Times photo / Jenny Yarger
It's been 25 years since Gainesville R-V School District voters approved a levy increase. That 1993 increase, of about 30 cents per $100 assess valuation, was dedicated exclusively to fund the construction of the "new" elementary school. And when that facility was completely paid for in 2008, the...
This photo taken by Gainesville High School agriculture teacher Jon Wilson won the People's Choice award in this year's 2018 Focus on Missouri Agriculture Photo Contest hosted by the Missouri Department of Agriculture. Wilson's photo, titled "Curious," was also runner-up in the contest's "Farm...
For the first time in many years, kids who live in western Ozark County had the opportunity to play summer T-ball locally, thanks to Lutie School, team sponsor Century Bank of the Ozarks and Lutie teacher Carrie (Bushong) Laird, who organized and coached the Lutie T-Ball Tribe team. More than 20 3...

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