County candidate filings

The three-day filing period for Municipal offices in Pottawatomie and Lincoln counties opened on Monday of this week and ran through Wednesday. These are the filings for McLoud and the Lincoln County cities and towns through Monday evening. McLoud, Steven M.

Stroud Auxiliary meets

The American Legion Auxiliary held its monthly meeting this past Monday evening at the American Legion building. Members attending were Cindy Mason, Julie Bivin, Linda Waller, Jo Braden, Velma Brant, Diana McGuire, Delores Hamlin and Diana Reed.

Ring of memories

I was looking for something in a drawer a week or two ago and came upon my FFA ring from high school. This is a vintage This is a vintage 1966 ring, ordered my freshman year, as I recall, along with my FFA jacket. It’s a simple affair, with the FFA owl-on-a-plow inside an ear of corn.

Town Talk

Well, Christmas break is over so it’s time to get back to work. I woke up this morning thinking about projects I would like to complete between now and May.

Stroud Arts: Moving forward!

This is the Sixty-Second article in a semi-permanent column for Stroud Arts that appears in the Stroud American. The mission of these articles is to inform, educate and inspire you, the reader, to Make Art Happen in your life and the life of our community.

Remembering the good times

I was looking at a photo on the bookcase in our house this week that my wife had framed some time back. Not sure when we retrieved it from my parents’ house. It was sometime after either dad died in 1988 or my mother’s passing in 2013.

Happenings at Prairie Pointe

The Prairie Pointe family has welcomed Leon Williams as the newest member of our family. Leon was born and raised in Stroud by his mom Edith and stepfather Woodrow Sosbee. His real father died when he was two years old.

Tony Rice

I read over the holiday that bluegrass guitar player and singer Tony Rice died. It was a sad day for bluegrass fans in general and guitar players in particular.

Stroud Arts: The End to 2020...

This is the Sixtyfi rst article in a semipermanent column for Stroud Arts that appears in the Stroud American. The mission of these articles is to inform, educate and inspire you, the reader, to Make Art Happen in your life and the life of our community.

Town Talk

Town Talk volunteers took a break to enjoy the holidays but plan on getting back in the swing of things as we kick off 2021.