Chandler announces Junor High honor roll

Officials at Chandler Junior High School released the names of students on the honor rolls for the second semester of the 2021-2022 school year.

Area students receive degrees from OBU

Six local students were among the 287 students that Oklahoma Baptist University conferred degrees upon during Spring Commencement last month. The ceremony took place in Raley Chapel’s Potter Auditorium.

Girl Scouts place flags

Chloe Crouch, 7, left, and Saylor Dietz, 5, put flags on the graves of military veterans buried at Oak Park Cemetery in Chandler. They are members of Troop 919 and helped place the flags on Saturday. Photo/Brian Blansett

Murder trial continued in February shooting

A Lincoln County District judge again has continued a jury trial for a Harrah man charged with first degree murder who was scheduled to be tried next week.

Town Talk

Thank you to everyone who participated in and attended the Memorial Day ceremony at Stroud Cemetery. The program is sponsored by the American Legion, American Legion Auxiliary and Town Talk volunteers.

‘No contest’ pleas in McLoud gun case

A McLoud man who already had admitted a federal firearms count nearly two years ago and was sentenced, has also pleaded no contest to three state felony charges and drawn prison terms to run concurrently.

Fences

Over the holiday weekend, Kindra and I redid the electric fence around the dogs’ back yard. The fence hasn’t worked in quite some time. We’re not sure when, but the breaker tripped and the controller has been as dead as a hammer, as my grandpa used to say. It didn’t matter.

Invisible is still real

The medical technologist stopped, needle poised in my arm, and asked me a question I had never expected to hear: Could I feel it? Did it hurt? I told him of course it did.

A different Memorial Day

This past weekend we celebrated Memorial Day and it was a little different than most since I spent from late Friday morning until late Monday afternoon by myself.