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The 2025 Hootin an Hollarin festival committee, pictured above, includes (from left) back row: Mollie Smart, Kerrie Zubrod, Lily Branco, Janette McDaniel, Mike Gardner, Doug Hawkins, Dave Bushner, Gabe Blackburn and Barbara Luna. Middle row: Heather Bushner, Jerri Sue Crawford, Heather Gardner, Sherry Ginthum, Dia Premer and Becki Strong. Front row: Linda Harlin, Paula Rose and Nancy Walker. Not pictured: Chris Harlin, Karen Brantingham, Renee Hambelton, Konnie Plumlee and Gary Maupin.
Get your overalls washed and dust off your outhouse-racing shoes! Hootin an Hollarin is just three weeks away.
This year’s festival committee has been hard at work managing the last minute details of the beloved 3-day festival, set for Sept. 18-20, on the Gainesville square.
The Ozark County Times...
Rona and Jeff Sagert of Cedar Ridge RV Park and Storage Units in Bakersfield stand in front of their newly opened laundromat, which is open to the general public Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Thursdays through Mondays: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Residents of Bakersfield and surrounding areas who don’t own a washer or dryer now have a convenient new option: a self-service laundromat located at Cedar Ridge RV Park and Storage. The facility, which opened recently, offers the use of eight washers and 12 dryers to the public at affordable...
The Gainesville School District issued a statement this morning, Aug. 27, informing parents and the community that a student was found in possession of a firearm on school property today. Superintendent Justin Gilmore told the Times that the firearm was found in a backpack inside the school, and...
Photos by Ed Doiron
Thankfully there were no injuries Saturday, Aug. 16, when a motorist traveling down Highway 181 in Gainesville, not far from the high school, realized his truck had caught fire while he was still inside, driving.
The call was made to the Ozark County Sheriff’s Department dispatch line just...
Gainesville Health Care Center residents Linda Klein, left, and Gloria Noah, face off against each other in the “Running with the Times,” game while fellow residents (front left) Nicole Brentise and Allan Piche watch.
The residents of Gainesville Health Care Center may have a few more years of wisdom than your average social media influencer, but that hasn’t stopped them from becoming overnight TikTok stars.
Their videos are racking up views by the millions, and the residents are loving it.
Now, the community...
Gainesville School was back in session Monday, and students were met with several new improvements for the school year including this digital marquee sign in front of the elementary school entrance.
Backpacks weren’t the only thing new on the first day of school in Gainesville this year. Students were greeted with a number of exciting facility upgrades across the district campus, improvements that represent months of work completed while school was out for the summer.
Superintendent Justin...
Jon Wilson
This fall, Gainesville High School ag teacher and FFA advisor Jon Wilson joins the staff at the William H. Darr College of Agriculture at Missouri State University in Springfield.
Wilson will teach as a per course instructor for the college for the 2025-26 academic year as he continues his role at...
An Ozark County Times reader brought these ash trays into the newspaper office last week, sparking a mystery to uncover just where they might’ve come from. A Facebook post with a photo of the ash trays was posted to the Times’ Facebook page, where - thanks to the local community - the mystery was solved.
When a local resident brought the two worn, blue ashtrays pictured above into the Times office last week, they sparked quite a mystery.
Printed on each ashtray was the inscription: “Swiped from; T-Bone Cafe; Gainesville, Mo.; OS 9-3917.”
The woman who brought them in said she had never heard of the...
These photos show the progression of the County Road 338 Bridge over Pond Fork in Longrun. The bridge washed out last November (photo, far left), leaving motorists without a way across. The weather delayed the project from some time, but the bridge was poured last week and opened to traffic Monday.
After nine months off waiting and repeated setbacks from flooding, Ozark County’s new bridge on County Road 883 is finally rebuilt and reopened, giving motorists in the Longrun area a convenient passage over Pond Fork.
The original structure washed out in November 2024, leaving the county road,...
A benefit dinner and auction held last Saturday at Dora School raised more than $37,000 for Roberts family.
The Dora community came together in an extraordinary way Saturday evening, raising more than $37,500 for Wes Roberts and his children following the unexpected death of his wife, Marcie.
The benefit dinner and auction, held at Dora School, was organized to help the family not only cope with the...