Ring of memories

I was looking for something in a drawer a week or two ago and came upon my FFA ring from high school. This is a vintage This is a vintage 1966 ring, ordered my freshman year, as I recall, along with my FFA jacket. It’s a simple affair, with the FFA owl-on-a-plow inside an ear of corn.

Town Talk

Well, Christmas break is over so it’s time to get back to work. I woke up this morning thinking about projects I would like to complete between now and May.

Stroud Arts: Moving forward!

This is the Sixty-Second article in a semi-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.

Remembering the good times

I was looking at a photo on the bookcase in our house this week that my wife had framed some time back. Not sure when we retrieved it from my parents’ house. It was sometime after either dad died in 1988 or my mother’s passing in 2013.

Happenings at Prairie Pointe

The Prairie Pointe family has welcomed Leon Williams as the newest member of our family. Leon was born and raised in Stroud by his mom Edith and stepfather Woodrow Sosbee. His real father died when he was two years old.

Kevin Wallace: Legislative roundup

The House will hold a redistricting meeting in Chandler at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 6, at the Route 66 Interpretive Center.

Services available for long-term care residents

The Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program provides an advocate for long-term care residents, particularly those without family to help advocate on their behalf, to express their questions and concerns. Along with resident advocacy, local Ombudsmen also offer other resources and information.

Public Records for Lincoln and Pottawatomie Counties

Lincoln County Marriage Licenses Thomas Blake Cole and Ashtin Brooke Harrison, both of Stroud. Christopher Trae Broughton and Millicent Chrysler Domingo, both of Chandler. Probates In the Matter of the Petition for Letters of Administration for Tommy Wayne Rogers.

December Rotarians of the month announced

Chandler High School seniors Jillian Anderson and Victorian Barton were named student members of the Rotary Club for December 2020. Jillian Anderson is the daughter of Glenn and Melissa Anderson. She has one older sibling.

Clagg and Rickner are January Lions of the Month

Chandler High School seniors Spencer Clagg and Cobie Rickner have been chosen as Lions of the Month by the Lion’s Club for the month of January. Spencer Clagg, the son of Eric and Tonya Clagg, holds a 3.25 grade point average while taking advanced classes in English for four years.