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Village of Bakersfield Trustees Tony Johnson, Jodi Burns and Stephanie Guffey
In Bakersfield, voters re-elected incumbents Tony Johnson and Jodi Burns to the village board. Stephanie Guffey was also elected; they will fill the two-year terms currently held by Johnson, Burns and Albert Gargione, who did not file for re-election. Tony Schaab and Jonathan Belt also filed, so...
Dora residents voted Tuesday to approve a request to renew the Dora School District's current tax levy with a .10 increase, approving the measure 93 to 43 (68.4 percent for the measure, 31.6 percent against).
Superintendent Steve Richards said Tuesday night, "We're very excited that we can...
Ozark County Ambulance emergency medical technician Ed Doiron stows a patient-transport gurney inside the ambulance to prepare for the next emergency call. Times photo/Jessi Dreckman.
Ozark County voters on Tuesday, April 3 approved a proposal by the Ozark County Ambulance District to reset the district's current levy rate of .1242 cents per $100 of assessed valuation up to a maximum of 28 cents per $100 assessed valuation starting in the current tax year.
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Registered voters in Ozark County will go to the polls April 3 to decide tax levy requests by the Ozark County Ambulance District and the Dora R-III School District, and also to elect members to the village boards in Bakersfield and Theodosia, the school boards in Bakersfield and Gainesville,...
Bakersfield R-IV School District will conduct preschool and kindergarten screenings Thursday and Friday, April 19-20. Children are eligible for kindergarten if they will be 5 years old on or before July 31, 2018. Children who will be 4 years old on or before July 31, 2018, are eligible for...
The Lutie Project Graduation committee will host a 3-on-3 basketball tournament from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 7.The tournament will include two age brackets, organizers said: girls 13-18, boys 13-18, girls 19 and up, and boys 19 and up.The entry fee is $30 per team. Winning teams will be...
Bakersfield pitcher Brady Jones held Koshkonong scoreless in the Lions’ 10-0 home-field season opener victory Friday, March 23. Bakersfield traveled to Bradleyville Tuesday, March 27. Results of that game were unavailable at press time.
From the beginning of last week to the end we saw a steady improvement in the weather and the fishing. The best bite early in the week was the Fout’s area, but everybody started fishing the area and the bite slowed down.With the warm weather the last couple of days, the stripers started biting all...
Bass fishing last weekend was better than it has been for a long time. Numerous baits worked in both the creeks and on the main lake. I caught bass on a shaky-head worm, square-bill crankbait and the Bama rig. Fish were as shallow as 3 feet, and others were as deep as 25 feet. Fish your style, and...
To contact the Ozark County Sheriff’s Department or other emergency-responding agencies here, call 417-679-4633. In an emergency, dial 911.
March 191:14 p.m. – Prisoner transport, Sharp County, Arkansas.2:54 p.m. – Brush fire. Timber Knob VFD responded.6:57 p.m. – An abandoned house that burned...