Area bands headed for state

Three local high school bands have advanced to the OSSAA state concert band competition, with two making it for the very first time. This is the debut for Stroud and North Rock Creek high schools, while Chandler is making a return.

Three in a row!

Dayton Forsythe gestures to the crowd as his name is called out to get his individual medal after the Dale boys won the Class 2A state championship Saturday in Oklahoma City. It was the third state title in a row for the Pirates. 

County commissioners approve E911 contract

By Mike McCormick Staff Writer Lincoln County commissioners have approved a new contract for personnel services between the County’s E911 Trust Authority and the board of commissioners. The approval came during a special joint meeting with the 911 Trust Authority.

‘Not guilty’ pleas in sex cases

A Stroud man has pleaded not guilty on four felonies and his cases have been set for the felony disposition docket.

CHS alum releases third novel

Ginny Myers Sain comes from a family of writers. Her mother is famed young adult (YA) novelist and former Chandler teacher Anna Myers. Her father was a poet. Her younger brother Ben, who still lives in Chandler, was the poet laureate of the state of Oklahoma.

Hearing set in sex abuse case

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for an Agra man facing two counts of child sexual abuse. John David Somers, Jr., 33, was formally charged in Lincoln County District Court on Jan. 4 this year with the two counts.

NRC honored by Purple Heart organization

North Rock Creek was honored as the first school in the country to receive the prestigious Patriotic School of the Year award.

20 years in neglect and abuse cases

A Lincoln County resident who waived his right to a jury trial and entered a blind plea of guilty on the day his trial was starting has been sentenced to prison. Brandon Matthew Tarpenning, 40, who deputies said resided in the Harrah area, was first charged in Lincoln County District Court on Dec.