Time for New Year’s Resolutions

It’s that time of year again to write down the resolutions for the coming 12 months. I’m curious to see what 2022 will bring. One of mine is to continue having the willingness to take on improvements around the house and the yard.

Town Talk

It is hard to believe this is the last paper for 2021. Stroud experienced many blessings as well as losses. Our community was hit hard this past year with the deaths of too many of our citizens. Let’s continue to remember those families with our prayers and acts of kindness.

Editorial

A young man is alive today and able to enjoy Christmas because some people were concerned enough about him 3 ½ years to speak up and notify authorities.

Memories of Christmas time

Seventy years ago today my mother passed away. She had turned 30 only four months before. Today, as I have done for many, many years, I’ll lay a wreath at her grave commemorating her death. If alive today, she would be 100 years old.

Town Talk

It’s hard to believe that Christmas is just two days away and 2021 is quickly coming to a close. Stroud has had a good year with many improvements taking place in our community. I can’t wait to see what all we accomplish this next year.

Relishing memories of going hunting

After finishing up putting some Christmas lights around our patio last Saturday afternoon, I took a breather and just sat down in my chair. Saturday had turned out to be a pretty nice day with a slight northerly breeze after a chilly morning.

Town Talk

I did a little snooping around and found out that Head Start is moving its offices to Main Street into the building that was the former Sparks Winery tasting room. There have been a few other businesses in it since the tasting room, but the building is owned by J. L. Gilbert of the Sparks Winery.

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.