Stroud man waives jury

A Stroud man facing two felony counts dealing with child pornography has waived his jury trial. John Mack Byrd., Jr., 43, was formally charged July 29, 2022 in Lincoln County District Court with possession of child pornography and using access to computers to violate Oklahoma State statutes.

A quick trip out west for quail hunting

Had a chance last week to finally go quail hunting. It was the first time in several years. Until about 20162017, I didn’t miss hunting quail at least some time during the season. We had to put our little pointer Sassy to sleep in January of 2016 and we haven’t had a bird dog since.

Town Talk

Activities in the community this week include Stroud City Council meeting today, Thursday, February 8th 6:00 p.m. at City Hall. The Masonic Lodge will hold its all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast this Saturday, February 10th at the agricultural building for a cost of $7.00.

Town Talk

One of our Main Street businesses would like to add some local products to their product line-up. If you have or know of anyone who has locally made foods such as honey, salsa, jam, etc., please contact Michelle Whitson at the Treasure Box.

Baseball memories

As I was looking through some old photos recently, I came across one of my fourth grade baseball team. That’s been a day or two since it was taken, more specifically several decades. Not sure when we retrieved it from my parents’ house, but it was before my mother’s passing in 2013.

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!

Christmas chili

As I tip-toe into the new year, I have a list of things I’d like to see in the next 12 months. Here’s my list. Maybe you have one of your own. 1. A change of political heart throughout the country. If you are my age, you lived through and remember several dark periods of American history.

New Year’s Resolutions, 2024

While we have just started a new year, it’s taken me a little longer to jot down the resolutions for the coming 12 months. I’m hoping 2024 will be a good year, maybe a little better than 2023 and that I and our family will go through it without some of the challenges we faced the past 12 months.