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🏈 This Week In Local Sports!Catch up on varsity and junior high football, Lamar volleyball and University of the Ozarks ...
10/14/2026

🏈 This Week In Local Sports!

Catch up on varsity and junior high football, Lamar volleyball and University of the Ozarks athletics in this week's edition of The Johnson County Graphic.

We've got game recaps, scores and highlights from teams across Johnson and Franklin counties!

📰 Read more: https://www.thegraphic.org/

📸 Pictured: Ozark's John Skolarski (11) follows his blockers during Friday night's game against Pottsville. --Photo courtesy Wanda Gage

Thank you to our sports sponsors for helping make local sports coverage possible!

📰 This Week's Edition Is Online!The Oct. 14 edition of The Johnson County Graphic is available online now!This week, we'...
10/13/2026

📰 This Week's Edition Is Online!

The Oct. 14 edition of The Johnson County Graphic is available online now!

This week, we're covering local government decisions in Johnson and Franklin counties, the latest on the Serverfarm data center project, upcoming water funding votes in Clarksville and Ozark, and news from our local communities.

Plus, catch up on high school and junior high sports, volleyball and University of the Ozarks athletics.

Read this week's edition at https://www.thegraphic.org/

📸 Pictured: Franklin County Judge Rickey Bowman signs a proclamation recognizing National 4-H Week, Oct. 4-10, alongside local 4-H members and Extension agents.

Photo courtesy Franklin County Extension Office

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10/12/2026

🗓Public meetings scheduled this week in Johnson and Franklin Counties. Links to meeting livestreams below, if available.

Monday, Oct. 12-
-Ozark City Council, 5:30 p.m., Council Chambers, Ozark City Hall
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/
-Clarksville City Council, 6 p.m., Clarksville City Hall
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/
-Hartman City Council, 6 p.m., Hartman City Hall

Tuesday, Oct. 13-
-Coal Hill City Council, 6 p.m., Coal Hill City Hall
-Knoxville City Council, 6 p.m., Knoxville City Hall
-Lamar City Council, 6 p.m., Lamar City Hall

Meetings are open to the public.

For 30 years, a food pantry sponsored by the Altus-Ozark Council of Churches has helped make sure Franklin County famili...
10/09/2026

For 30 years, a food pantry sponsored by the Altus-Ozark Council of Churches has helped make sure Franklin County families have food on the table.

Each Thursday, the pantry serves 100 to 130 families, distributing meat, canned goods, milk or juice, cereal, bread, produce and other items as available.

The pantry relies on donations and volunteers to continue its work.

Read more about the people behind this longtime community service and how the pantry operates: https://www.thegraphic.org/2026/10/06/food-pantry-faithfully-serves-franklin-county-residents/

10/08/2026

Oark Schools showed improvement in the latest state school letter grades, with Oark Elementary moving from a D to a C and Oark High School improving from a C to a B.

The Jasper School District highlighted the gains, along with improvements in test scores, graduation rate and other areas, during its annual report to the public presented at the September School Board meeting.

Read more about the results and other business from the meeting: https://www.thegraphic.org/2026/10/06/oarks-improved-scores-highlighted-in-district-report/

Serverfarm CEO Avner Papouchado announced a $150,000 donation to the Clarksville School District during a topping-out ce...
10/07/2026

Serverfarm CEO Avner Papouchado announced a $150,000 donation to the Clarksville School District during a topping-out ceremony at the company's data center site on Wednesday. The company's financial investment in the school system will include $50,000 to cover overage costs for free meals provided to all students; $50,000 to the Panther Foundation to support athletic facilities; and $50,000 to the Clarksville Education Foundation to support teacher grants. See full coverage of the ceremony in the Oct. 14 issue of The Graphic.

🏈🏌️ It was another busy week for area athletes.Pictured, Lamar’s Whitman Storment carries the ball during the Warriors’ ...
10/07/2026

🏈🏌️ It was another busy week for area athletes.

Pictured, Lamar’s Whitman Storment carries the ball during the Warriors’ 44-0 shutout win over Dover. Storment scored a touchdown and led the defense with 15 tackles.

Undefeated Ozark improved to 5-0 with a 34-14 conference win over Waldron, while Clarksville fell 34-8 to Pea Ridge and Westside suffered a 50-12 loss to Cave City in homecoming action.

On the golf course, Clarksville junior Savannah Gereaux placed seventh at the 4A State Tournament to earn all-state honors, while the Lady Panthers finished eighth as a team.

And there’s more inside this week’s sports section, including junior high football, Ozark golf and coverage of University of the Ozarks athletics.

Catch up on all of this week’s local sports coverage:

https://www.thegraphic.org/

Thank you to our Sports Spotlight sponsors for helping us bring local sports coverage to our readers: Family Practice Associates of Clarksville, PA; Phil Taylor Insurance; Meadors Lumber; Dr. Bryan Smith Ortho Clinic at JRMC; Horn & Son Construction; and Farm Bureau Insurance, Clarksville.

The latest edition of The Johnson County Graphic is online!Lamar High School will celebrate homecoming Friday night as t...
10/06/2026

The latest edition of The Johnson County Graphic is online!

Lamar High School will celebrate homecoming Friday night as the Warriors host Mena. Meet the members of the 2026 homecoming court in this week’s edition. Homecoming ceremonies begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by the game at 7 p.m.

Also in this week’s paper, we have local government and school news, community features and a full lineup of sports coverage from across Johnson and Franklin counties.

Subscribers can read the full edition online now, before print copies hit the stands Wednesday. https://www.thegraphic.org/

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10/05/2026

🗓Public meetings scheduled this week in Johnson and Franklin Counties. Links to meeting livestreams below, if available.
*edited to add Lamar City Council special meeting

Monday, Oct. 5
-Wiederkehr Village city meeting, 4 p.m., Swiss Chalet building, Wiederkehr Village winery
*-Lamar City Council special meeting regarding purchase of a police vehicle, 6 p.m., city hall

Thursday, Oct. 8
-Johnson County Quorum Court, 5:30 p.m., Johnson County courthouse
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/
-Franklin County Quorum Court, 6 p.m., Ozark courthouse

Meetings are open to the public.

📚 One thousand books sounds like a lot. But for 3-year-old Liam Arrington and his family, it starts with something prett...
10/02/2026

📚 One thousand books sounds like a lot. But for 3-year-old Liam Arrington and his family, it starts with something pretty simple: picking out a few books and climbing into Mom’s lap at the end of the day.

Liam is one of the first children taking part in the Johnson County Library’s new 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program, which encourages families to make reading together part of their routine.

His big sister, Lizzie, has already shown him it can be done — she reached the 1,000-book goal when she was 3.

Stories about the people and programs that make our communities special are part of what we do each week. Your subscription helps us keep telling them.

Read more about the Arrington family and how the library is helping local families build a love of reading long before the first day of kindergarten. https://www.thegraphic.org/2026/09/29/jcpl-1000-books-before-kindergarten/

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