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Gainesville’s new center water tower is built. City Water Specialist Jessi Price says that the city’s water loss is down slightly in November, as the city is one month into running both the east and center water districts off the east water tower while the center tower was built and can be painted...
Bakersfield National Junior Honor Society sponsor Destiny Johnson (center) and students, from left, (front row) Lesley Luna, Jaylene Swensen, Allie Hollingshad, Ryder Black (back row) Massey Hayes, Trigger Schab. Also participating, but not pictured, were Mr. Jordan Grigg and the FFA. Photo courtesy of Bakersfield School.
Drivers on Highway 101 near Bakersfield High School may have recently spotted an unusual sight: clusters of cheerful teenagers in neon vests combing the roadsides with trash bags in hand and plenty of good humor to spare.
Members of Bakersfield High School’s FFA and National Honor Society spent two...
Don Luna's parents, Joe and Helen Marie Luna, accompanied him to the West Plains train station as he returned to the Army before his deployment to Vietnam in 1966.
Editor's note: This is the second part of a two-part feature about the Ozark County Historium's Veterans Day program, a live-remote broadcast by radio station KUKU featuring "Cowboy Rick" Hamby interviewing three local-area veterans: Larry Warrick and Don Luna of Gainesville, and Terry Wyrick of...
Rudine Sallee
Ollie Rudine Sallee, known lovingly as “Rudine,” was just six days shy of celebrating her 100th birthday when she passed away on Nov. 18. Though she didn’t reach the milestone she had long looked forward to, her family says her nearly century-long life was full, blessed and deeply meaningful....
A 16-year-old boy died Nov. 21 in the Brixey/Rockbridge area after he was electrocuted.
Ozark County Sheriff Cass Martin confirmed that the boy and another juvenile were walking down a Howell-Oregon Electric Cooperative power line right-of-way while deer hunting last Friday morning when the boy...
Ozark County Sheriff Cass Martin, Sheriff’s Office Administrator Curtis Ledbetter, Jail Administrator Dajana Watkins and Evidence Custodian and Office Assistant Robert Simpson are pictured here outside the Ozark County Sheriff’s Department, which is finalized its ninth month of housing and transporting federal prisoners last week.
The Ozark County Sheriff’s Department is now nine months into its contract with the Department of Homeland Security to house and transport federal detainees for ICE and prisoners for the U.S. Marshals Service. Today, Sheriff Cass Martin says the operation is running smoothly, but it wasn’t always...
Gainesville’s Care to Learn coordinator Brenda Frye, left, and school social worker Misty Cullipher help with many of the efforts inside Gainesville’s new Community Resource Center including providing students in need with the free clothing and shoes shown here. Gainesville School staff members Nicole Wallace and Allisa West are also Gainesville Care to Learn liaisons.
Tucked away on the Gainesville School campus, a humble building hums with the energy of open hearts and open arms, a blessing both to the students who rely on its services and to the devoted staff who feel fortunate to provide them.
Each day, the sound of morning showers blends with the constant...
Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers. The staff here at the Ozark County Times is thankful for each and every person reading this edition, as well as all community members who submit news and photos that allow this publication to continue recording the history of Ozark County each week.
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On Veterans Day, the Ozark County Historium hosted a live remote broadcast by radio station KUKU 100.3 FM of "Cowboy Rick" Hamby, right, interviewing local area veterans. From left, Terry Wyrick, Larry Warrick and Don Luna. Robert Klineline, Hamby's cousin, co-hosted the program and told stories, with Warrick, about their many years of working for the telephone company here.
Editor's note: This is the first part of a two-part feature about the Ozark County Historium's Veterans Day program, a live-remote broadcast by radio station KUKU featuring "Cowboy Rick" Hamby interviewing three local-area veterans. This week, we share the personal Vietnam story of one of the...
Coe Hamm, 2-year-old son of Brad and Kursten Hamm, has been diagnosed with metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), a rare, terminal genetic disease that rapidly deteriorates the white matter of the brain.
Former Gainesville residents Brad and Kursten Suter Hamm, now living in West Plains, say they have been overwhelmed by the generosity the community has extended to them in the last few weeks as they navigate an unimaginably difficult circumstance.
On Oct. 27, they received the devastating news...