It has been over 110 years since the first railroad locomotive rolled into Ava. It was a time when the horse was still important to transportation of people and materials in the area. But today it is ...

Cedar Gap is known to many people just by the highway sign along Hwy. 60 several miles west of Mansfield. A limited number of the travelers on Hwy. 60 have ventured off the highway to see what remains ...

Ava High School recently announced its 2020/2021 Fall Renaissance awards, covering student performance for the Spring 2020 semester. They are as follows (names as provide by the school). White Card ...

Cheyney, Loveless in as County Commissioners, Degase as Sheriff by Michael Boyink/[email protected] The unofficial results of the August 4 Primary Election have been tallied and according ...

Were you following the newspaper stories that reported the facemask protection experiments conducted by Mrs. Lawler’s third grade class at Ava Elementary School? The experiment investigated how ...

In February of this year, former Ava resident Darren Everett, won his fourth Missouri State 9-Ball Championship beating out 102 other players. Everett, now an Ozark area resident, was a 1976 graduate ...

A Douglas County deputy and an Ozark County dispatcher rescued a child Thursday that had been swept away in a culvert at a popular swimming hole. The incident happened near State Highway PP. Deputy ...

By Doug Berger Hannah Evans set Ava Bears track history with her efforts at the state track meet. She is reported to be the only female athlete in Ava Bears track history to be All-State in two ...

Audrey Faye McVay, 95 years, 10 months, and 8 days old, entered Heaven on March 4, 2025, at her home with family by her side. On April 27, 1929, Faye was born in Mansfield, Missouri, to George and ...

Ava’s most trained and certified martial arts instructor, Jason Jones, was trained by several of the world’s most famous martial arts instructors. He has black belts and instructor certifications in ...

To qualify for the Missouri State – West Plains Chancellor’s List, students must have earned a 4.0 grade point average for 12 or more credit hours taken during the semester.

A video was recently posted on youtube of a visit to the Ava Police Department by a man who proclaimed himself a journalist and a First Amendment Auditor. He had a confrontational meeting with the ...