Ocean front property

It seems such an innocent time, now. It was a Saturday night and the Pokes had just beaten OU in Bedlam football and were going to the Big XII Championship game and, we thought, perhaps to the college football playoffs.

Editorial

A week before Thanksgiving, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones. The commutation came hours before Jones was scheduled to be executed for a 1999 murder.

Remembering Pearl Harbor

This past Tuesday marked the 80th anniversary of the infamous bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. On that Sunday morning in 1941, Japanese planes unleashed a bombardment, killing and injuring thousands of American military personnel and many civilians.

Town Talk

Thank you to the Chamber of Commerce and the City of Stroud for another great Christmas parade. There was a nice crowd and a fun time was had by all. The parade had a total of 38 entrants. Projects like this take lots of work from everyone involved. Stroud is lucky to have such great volunteers.

Thanksgiving

It’s Thanksgiving time again. We are reminded that we should be thankful and grateful at this time of year for everything the Good Lord has provided us. Once again we are really excited because we’ll be with our daughter Meghan, her husband Terry and their son Liam, (our grandson).

Editorial

Law enforcement officers face enough obstacles in doing their jobs each day that they shouldn’t have to keep arresting the same criminals over and over. Thinking about it further, that seems counter productive. That’s what’s happening though, in some cases recently, in Lincoln County.

Town Talk

December is just around the corner and with it comes lots of Christmas festivities. To kick things off there will be an Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest. Come to the Route 66 Pavilion on December 4th at 5:45 p.m., right before the Christmas parade.

Town Talk

A representative from Adventure Golf out of Michigan stopped by this past Sunday on his way to Texas for a hunting trip. He checked out our golf course and answered some questions we had about the set-up of the course.

Letter to the editor

The following was submitted by family members of the late Natalie (Smith) Keeth, a former Stroud resident who died with breast cancer eighteen years ago. The family asked that Natalie’s “Letter to the Editor” published Oct.

An evil wind

I stood at the front window Wednesday watching allergens from Nebraska and random parts of Iowa blowing down Manvel Avenue.