GLENPOOL, Oklahoma – Locally-grown produce delivered straight to your door, the same day it’s harvested, that’s the mission of a new farmer in Glenpool.The owner of Sage Farms said it’s the ultimate in freshness, and he said for just being in business six months, business is good.The owner of the local business, Ben Neal, swapped…
Fire departments all across Green Country have been battling grass fires for the past several weeks. The area is still under a high fire danger alert for Wednesday’s strong winds. However, the costs of fighting all the grass fires are starting to add up for fire departments.
The room was rarely quiet but the tension was, at times, thick enough to cut with a knife. Several hundred parents, teachers, school administrators and concerned citizens sat in chairs or up in the bleachers of the Lone Star Event Center last Friday night and spoke or applauded with passion about the possibility of eventually…
A Sapulpa native stars in one of popsugar.com’s most memorable memes from Super Bowl 50. Dancing in the background during the halftime show’s Bruno Mars set was Mark Sumner, who was choir director at Sapulpa High School for eight years. Sumner, an Oklahoma State University graduate who is the director of University of California Choral…
In a series called “50 Stories 50 Years” an arts advocacy site called “Oklahomans for the Arts” has listed Sapulpa’s Arts program as one that provides valuable and integral programs to the communities, and shows us what would happen should the state cut the Oklahoma Arts Council budget:
At least 9 Senators invited, only State Representative Mark McCullough chose to attend.
Community transportation is the topic of public forums set during the week of Feb. 8. Cimarron Public Transit is hosting the event. The public is invited and encouraged to attend and share their feedback about the local transportation program. Meetings will be held at the Bartlesville Public Library at 11 a.m. Feb. 8; Ponca City,…
Glenpool would like to capture expiring Vision 2025 funds to pay for street, water and sewer projects, economic development and police and fire department equipment. GLENPOOL — City councilors have voted to place two propositions to capture a portion of the expiring Vision 2025 tax on the April 5 ballot. Councilors also moved Monday to…
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Beck, 97, talked to the Tulsa World recently about his service as an Army Air Corps firefighter in WWII, helping put out fires and rescue airmen from crashed B-29s. Now that he was all cleaned and wrapped, Paul Beck couldn’t decide what he was more worried about. His burned body or his wounded dignity.
We previously shared with you that the Eufaula killer in an awful bank robbery last month had actually been convicted in Sapulpa back in 2006. Turns out, there’s a lot more to that story about how he was wrongfully freed from prison. Twice. Officials from Creek and Tulsa counties, as well as the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,…
