Baseball memories

As I was looking through some old photos recently, I came across one of my fourth grade baseball team. That’s been a day or two since it was taken, more specifically several decades. Not sure when we retrieved it from my parents’ house, but it was before my mother’s passing in 2013.

Cold weather

I came back to the house Monday after driving to the newspaper office and thought: “That’s weird. It looks like the trash can is smoking.” Turns out, it was smoking. About an hour earlier, I had cleaned out the fireplace ashes and tossed a plastic sack of them into the trash can.

Worrisome school trends

I saw and read last Friday where a student showed up at a Middle School in Oklahoma City with a weapon and fired it in the bathroom of the facility. Thank goodness no one was injured, but the school was on a lockdown for awhile.

Town Talk

Don and Ta at GiGi’s donuts are back from vacation and the donut shop is once again open for business. I don’t know how Stroud made it without a donut shop for as long as we did, before GiGi’s opened. Everyone was missing their morning donuts but no worries, the donuts are back!

Christmas chili

As I tip-toe into the new year, I have a list of things I’d like to see in the next 12 months. Here’s my list. Maybe you have one of your own. 1. A change of political heart throughout the country. If you are my age, you lived through and remember several dark periods of American history.

New Year’s Resolutions, 2024

While we have just started a new year, it’s taken me a little longer to jot down the resolutions for the coming 12 months. I’m hoping 2024 will be a good year, maybe a little better than 2023 and that I and our family will go through it without some of the challenges we faced the past 12 months.

Chandler Public Library activities

CARLA HALE Chandler Library There’s a lot going on at your Chandler Public Library.

Town Talk

Things around town slow down a bit as we get closer to Christmas, but things seem much busier in our personal lives as Christmas nears. I always wonder if I’m going to get everything done in time for our family celebrations.

Editorial

Meeker’s Town Board of Trustees has decided to have two Trust Indentures. At least that’s what it appears will happen when they meet in January. During their Dec.

Christmas chili

We went for a lowstress Christmas this year. Instead of someone spending a couple of days in the kitchen to cook a turkey or a ham and everything that goes with them, I volunteered to make a traditional pot of Christmas chili. “What is Christmas chili?” you ask.