Area basketball

Above, Meeker girls coach Matt Jones talks to his team during a timeout in their game against Prague last week. Photo/Rick Hester Left, Zalen Smith puts up a shot off the bounce in Chandler’s win over Prague.

Argrow Scholarship Tournament

The event will take place on Saturday, March 9th from 10:00 am until 12:00 pm in Stroud, OK at the Memorial Gym 815 N. 2nd Ave. Team registration fee is $44 in honor of Chris Argrow’s High School Basketball number. Public Admission will be $1.

Chandler High School A and B honor rolls

Chandler High School has announced the students who made the A and A and B Honor Rolls for the first semester of the 2023-24 school year.

Wellston FFA/4H auction

Chandler Junior High honor rolls

Chandler Junior High has announced the students who made the Superintendent’s A and the Prinicpal’s A/B Honor Rolls for the first semester of the 2023-24 school year.

Trial set in death of Stroud man

A Jennings man facing a manslaughter charge or in the alternative negligent homicide in the death of a Stroud man has been set for the felony disposition docket in May. Brent Lee Nobles, 43, was charged in Lincoln County District Court March 23.

Cold weather

I came back to the house Monday after driving to the newspaper office and thought: “That’s weird. It looks like the trash can is smoking.” Turns out, it was smoking. About an hour earlier, I had cleaned out the fireplace ashes and tossed a plastic sack of them into the trash can.

Worrisome school trends

I saw and read last Friday where a student showed up at a Middle School in Oklahoma City with a weapon and fired it in the bathroom of the facility. Thank goodness no one was injured, but the school was on a lockdown for awhile.

Town Talk

Don and Ta at GiGi’s donuts are back from vacation and the donut shop is once again open for business. I don’t know how Stroud made it without a donut shop for as long as we did, before GiGi’s opened. Everyone was missing their morning donuts but no worries, the donuts are back!

Wellston woman injured in crash

A three-vehicle traffic collision on SH 66 west of Wellston injured a Wellston woman after she was pinned for nearly 30 minutes. State Trooper Conner Fryrear identified the injured woman as Andrea M. Clardy, 37.