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Gainesville’s Braden Voss was named to the Mansfield all-tournament team. Gainesville took fourth place after a 56-53 loss to Houston on Saturday.
Braden Voss
The Mountain Grove Pharmacy holiday girls basketball tournament begins Saturday, Dec. 26. Gainesville and Dora girls basketball teams are participating.
Army Private Dakota Bearden, a 2015 Lutie High School graduate, has successfully graduated from basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Georgia, and is now posted to Fort Bliss, Texas. Bearden is the son of Ronald Peters of Gainesville and Wanda Deforest and her husband, Donald, of Theodosia.
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Gainesville School held career day for ninth- through twelfth-grade students Thursday, Oct. 22. The event, organized by GHS teacher Esther Strong, included short discussions and workshops about different professions from area employees. Students were allowed to choose four professions that...
The Gainesville High School Cross Country team had a great showing at the Summit Conference meet Oct. 26 in Conway. Four runners received all-conference honors: Aspyn Britt, left, who placed first and set a new personal record; Javy Rosas, third place; Brodie Chapman, seventh place; and Destiny...
The 2015 Lady Bulldogs added a chapter to the Gainesville history books last week when they hosted the Class 2 District 7 tournament for the first time ever and, after Thursday’s 9-4 victory over Ava, won the championship title for the first time since 1999.
“It was a very good accomplishment for...
The Gainesville High School Marching Bulldogs Band, under the direction of band director Stephanie Taber, won fifth place Oct. 10 in the US Bands Regional Competition at Branson High School. Pictured during the competition performance are, from left, Burl Hamm, Maddison Trivitt, Eli Amyx,...
This patchwork quilt made by Kelly Durham Summers from Bakersfield High School T-shirts is being donated by Summers to be auctioned off at the annual Blue and White game to be held Nov. 13 in the BHS Jerry Taylor Gymnasium. T-shirts used in the project were donated by area residents. Proceeds from...
Gainesville Schools last week celebrated Red Ribbon Week, a national alcohol, tobacco and other drug and violence prevention program. As part of the Red Ribbon activities Thursday, Oct. 22, Mountain Home, Ark. school resource officer Eddie Helmert visited the Gainesville Elementary with K-9 drug...