Sharp hearing

I like to play a little music now and then, but was not blessed with the greatest of ears. Given enough time, I can get a guitar or mandolin or bass in the vicinity of correct tuning, but I always figure it is off enough to be grating for someone who has good musical hearing.

Updates from Meeker Town Hall

I hate to report about COVID-19 again but our numbers for our area are going up. Three Meeker residents reported positive for the Corona Virus and two of the three have recovered. I am still waiting on the 3 rd person’s report.

Importance of police funding

Amid all the recent protests and demonstrations over the last several weeks have come calls for defunding police departments across the state and around the nation. Among my first thoughts were these people can’t be really serious. They were, are and will continue to be it appears.

New guidelines at the Prague Library

Haynie Public Library, 1619 W. Main Street in Prague, has reopened and offers the following guidelines to patrons for using the library. To risk the spreading of coronavirus, masks are required and visitors must use hand sanitizer provided at entrances and exits.

The solution to tough splinters

Three weeks ago I went camping with a friend at Kaw Lake. We had new kayaks and wanted to test them out on the water. We walked up and down the shoreline scavenging the area looking for a cleared way to get to the water without having to walk through the briers and brush.

A.R.T.I.S.T.S. should...

This is the Forty-Fourth article in a 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.

Town Talk

Thank you to everyone who came out and supported Town Talk’s second Farmer’s Market this past Saturday. Everyone had a great time and I saw lots of people leaving with their arms loaded. Both Vivian Henshaw and Chelsea Weeks told me laughingly, “I had a great time but spent too much money.

Editorial Covid Questions

With the start of a new school year two months or less away, superintendents, teachers and other administrators aren’t quite sure what to expect. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is so much uncertainty still looming.

Viking diet

A few years ago I sent off a saliva sample to get my DNA tested. My main motive was to handicap my chances of developing Alzheimer’s, but I was also the slightest bit curious about locating the deeper roots of my family tree.

Updates from Meeker Town Hall

The Soil samples at Meeker Lake, Quapaw 15 Project, have been taken by the Terracon Group. Now the samples will be taken to their laboratory & tested for donor soil quality and compaction ratio. We are still waiting for the camera crew to run their camera up the 24” water pipe for inspection.