Micah Choquette
This is a repost of the story Kirk McCraken wrote in 2004. It did well and won an AP award. It has been reprinted here with his permission. — Sapulpa is a town steeped in tradition. Every year the Chieftains have a ceremony before the first home game called “The Burning of George.” It started […]
Local business owner and clothing designer Sarah Shibley is seeing some hard-earned success after almost ten years of building, tweaking, and fully-revamping her brand. The Sapulpa native was recently selected as an “Emerging Designer” for Tulsa Fashion Week, a local live runway fashion show featuring the latest trends in the industry. Shibley says she began designing clothing […]
The Creek County Democratic Party will hold their next meeting Thursday, September 17th at Joseph’s in Drumright 5480 Highway 16 (about 2 miles South of the 33/16 intersection.) Our speaker will be Keith O. McArtor, PC, former chair of the Tulsa Democratic Party. He is going to speak on Political Freedom as it relates to American, […]
Registered voters in Creek County who want to vote by mail absentee ballot in next Tuesday’s City of Oilton, Town of Mounds or Depew School Special Elections have until this Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. to request one, County Election Board Secretary Joy Naifeh said today. “If absentee voters miss Wednesday’s deadline, they aren’t out of […]
[foogallery id=”205″] Popular author Jon Acuff says that finding your dream is “often not an act of discovery, but an act of recovery.” For Heather McDougal, that certainly seems to be the case. When McDougal and her husband Roger moved to Sapulpa several years ago, she’d already had several years of teaching preschool under […]
His is called “the Greatest Generation” for good reason. Sapulpa resident Paul Morgan, who turns 90 on August 27, was 18 and a high school student from Ames, Okla. when Uncle Sam called in 1943. A year later he would be in Stalag 12A, one of Germany’s largest Prisoner of War camps, Rawstock, Germany. His is […]
Voters in Creek County who want to have absentee ballots mailed to them for the September 8, City of Oilton, Town of Mounds and Depew School Special Elections should apply now, County Election Board Secretary Joy Naifeh said today. Although the County Election Board can accept applications for absentee ballots until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, […]
Another business that fits nostalgic Route 66 is set to open next month on the famed Route in Historic Downtown Sapulpa. “Gone But Not Forgotten” takes over the former Gabe’s Office and Print Shop building at 108 E. Dewey. Most recently it was The Rustic Chic Boutique. The business is being put together by and […]
The Creek County Democratic Party will hold its next meeting Thursday, August 20, at Mazzio’s, in Bristow, 710 N. Main. The speaker is Debi Thompson, newly elected 3rd District Democratic Chair. “Debi is also a dynamic leader of the Federation of Democratic Women,” reports Fran Redding, vice chair of the Creek County Democratic Party. The meeting will begin at 6:45 […]
The Sapulpa Community Theatre will host auditions for the upcoming production of Wait Until Dark at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 9, in the Clark Vineyard Auditorium at the theatre. The script calls for six adult males, or four adult males and two females, along with a an adult female […]