Vivian “Florence” Adams

Vivian “Florene” Adams, 78, a resident of Blue Springs, MO passed away peacefully Monday, July 10, 2023 at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Blue Springs, MO. She was born November 3, 1944 to Floyd and Dorothy (Hamilton) Tipton in Kendrick, OK.

60th Anniversary

Ola Bon and Charlotte Fouquet will celebrate 60 years of marriage this month. Ola Bon, the son of Genese and Dollie Fouquet, graduated from Prague High School and was introduced by a Tinker co-worker to his daughter, Charlotte, who graduated from Verden High School.

Two face charges in death

A woman from Wellston and a man from Iowa have been formally charged in connection with the death of a Carney area man. Each faces three felonies. Each is being held in the Lincoln County Jail in Chandler without bond.

Town Talk

I’m writing to you this week from Southaven, Mississippi where I’ve come to watch Gideon play some baseball and hang out with Lincoln and August at the concession stand. I’ve watched baseball all my life but never really knew much about the game.

Weekend get-away trip

My wife Pat and I journeyed down to our little place at the lake this past weekend. It was the first time since last fall that we had been able to go down there. Normally we drive down either late Friday afternoon or early evening and come back on Sunday.

1952 Rollei

I could hear the camera whispering to me in a German accent heavy with sauerkraut and bratwurst. “Buy me,” it said. “Buy me. You know you should.” And so I did, and here’s the story of how that came to pass.

Bench warrant issued for no-show suspect

A $20,000 bench warrant has been issued for a Midwest City man who failed to appear for his court hearing on three felonies following a Lincoln County shooting near Wellston in February that injured a person. Casey Mac Wilson, 42, was formally charged in Lincoln County District Court on Feb.

Locals at the IFYR

Marijuana hearing continued

Preliminary hearings for two men from Okmulgee arrested by Lincoln County deputies and charged with cultivating a Controlled Dangerous Substance have been continued. The deputies reportedly seized 386 marijuana clone plants. Quing Li Zheng, 55, and Wei Goa, 41, were each charged Nov.

Sentencing in August in motorcycle shooting

A sentencing date has been set for an Oklahoma City biker who was convicted last month of first degree manslaughter in the shooting death of a Midwest City man in September of 2021.