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A couple of weeks ago, Ginger Gibbons opened up a new shop inside the Vape-4-Less store on Main Street called Native Beads and Medicine. I went to visit her new shop and got more of a story than I had expected. [foogallery id="715"] Native Beads and Medicine fills a need in the community for those who want…

NORMAN — University of Oklahoma women’s basketball coach Sherri Coale announced the signing of two players to National Letters of Intent on Wednesday. OU signed Chelsea Dungee of Sapulpa and Nancy Mulkey of Cypress, Texas. Dungee is a 5-foot-11 guard who is rated 16th at her position and No. 60 overall by ESPN HoopGurlz. She…

In a ceremony attended by their family, Troop, and friends, Gabriel Jackson and Kaden Jackson celebrated their achievement of the Boy Scouts of America Rank of Eagle Scout at Camp Okiwanee. They were honored to have 8 other Eagle Scouts present. Silver Beaver, Bart Bartlett emceed the Court of Honor. Both boys joined Cub Scouts…

Boy Scout Troop 224 held a special Court of Honor to present the families of Trey Pritchard and Jeffrey Grafton with memoirs from a recent flag retirement ceremony. Both men had been Scouts as youth and achieved the prestigious rank of Eagle Scout. Jeffrey Grafton was also a member of Scouting’s Honor Society, Order of…

Plenty of folks argue about whether or not Sapulpa, in it's 20,000 residents could actually be considered a "small town," but Sarah Darrol-Lane has big dreams for a girl in town of any size. The 15-year-old Bartlett Academy student holds a 3.5 GPA and wants to be a surgeon. So she's taking the next logical…

The rumors started where they usually do: on Facebook. Folks began to caution against doing business with the owner of a fairly new shop in downtown Sapulpa called The Vintage Attic. The story was that the owner was selling her vendor's products but not paying the vendors their cut. As the comments and suspicions grew, it…

[foogallery id="603"]   Oh, and it's awesome, by the way. If you've driven through, or even just driven by Sapulpa, you've probably seen Price Jones' work. His unique style lives on a couple of buildings in Sapulpa, but probably best known is the large "things get better, hang in there" sign that you see as you're heading…

Madison Cobb of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, appeared in the bright lights of Broadway on Saturday, September 19, as part of the National Down Syndrome Society's (NDSS) annual Times Square Video presentation. The featured photographs highlighted children, teens, and adults with Down syndrome, reminding the world in a very big way about the contributions and milestones of…

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…

By Don Diehl 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,…