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.

Anniversary celebration

Recently my wife Pat and I celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary. We were married July 1, 1978 in the chapel at St. Gregory’s. It was a Saturday morning at 10:30. This year July 1 fell on a Saturday also.

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Our community enjoyed another terrific fireworks show and July 4th celebration in Foster Park last week. Thanks to all who made this possible. I read many comments that stated Stroud’s fireworks were one of the best around. We can add that to our list of reasons we are Stroud Proud.

Letter to the editor

To the editor: Where do we go to find truthful reporting of news and other daily happenings? News media, both newspapers and radio, were once a reliable go to for reliable reporting. a previous letter to this paper referred to our FBI as “unhinged and unreliable.” The same FBI that J.

Ice cream

I remember clearly the day I quit liking milk and ice cream. It was the spring of 1971 and I was going through the dinner line at East Oklahoma State College in Wilburton. I got my usual glass of milk, sat down, ate a couple of bites,took a drink of milk and Bleeccchhh.

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Thank you to everyone who came out to play miniature golf this weekend at Putt Putt Kicks on Route 66. We appreciate the support. Not only did we have lots of local golfers, but we also had a family from Bristow who made a special trip to play with us.

Anticipating July 4th

We kept the grandson part of this weekend and when Pat and I and little Liam were riding around on Saturday we drove by several fireworks stands. It’s hard not to drive by one as many as there are around and they’ve been selling fireworks for at least a couple of weeks already.

Who was right?

I recently had occasion to talk to two old friends about an event that happened to us close to 50 years ago. The three of us were duck hunting with another friend named Terry, who suggested we go to a watershed lake not far away. “I have permission to hunt there,” he said.

Tax-funding religious schools a bad idea

The Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted last week to approve an application for a Catholic Charter virtual school that would create the first publicly funded religious charter school in the nation.

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Steve Brant’s Route 66 Spirit of America Museum is officially open for business on Main Street, Stroud. The Stroud Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new business this past Saturday.