Mounds

Voters in Creek County who want absentee ballots mailed to them for the July 8 Special Election should apply now, County Election Board Secretary Vicki Martin said today.

Alice Rapp, from Mounds, took home the 3rd place medal in Sports Medicine (postsecondary). Congrats, Alice!

Tech Sergeant John Jacobus, co-owner of Squish Burger in Mounds, Oklahoma, is being deployed out of the country by the Air National Guard and was given a going away party by friends and relatives.

Mounds held their annual fish fry and the Mounds Parent Teacher Organization held its first annual carnival, which was followed that evening by a fireworks show put on by the Town of Mounds.

The first order of business was to hold a public hearing, there were no public comments, therefore the Board unanimously adopted a resolution adopting the Town of Mounds budget. The next order of business was to unanimously approve the consent agenda, which consisted of the following items:

Kirk Sohl has been appointed to the position of Fire Chief by the Mounds Board Of trustees. Sohl, who has been a member of the Mounds Volunteer Fire Department for over 15 years, and has most recently served as Assistant Chief, replaced Jim Danforth who retired earlier this Spring.

The first customers are expected to be connected to the fiber network this summer with the project expected to be done later this fall.

“we have owned it in California for twelve years, but my cousin lives here, my grandkids and my daughter moved here, so we decided to move to Oklahoma and move the business up here.”

See updates for Mounds and Kiefer for January.

Lonnie Magee is a saddle-maker, leather artist and western novelist, who brings the cowboy culture to life with his art and writing.