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The Sixth Annual 100-Mile Yard Sale Tour is going on today, from 8am, through tomorrow until 8pm. It's a collection of regional towns holding their city-wide garage sales on the same weekend for a greater effect and to welcome visitors. We've collected a printable map of the official sales going on in Sapulpa. You can…

Besides the 32 apartments and their occupants, the Wells Building at 208-210 East Dewey (Route 66) in Historic Downtown Sapulpa contains a lot of local history—oil history, black history, native American history, business history—bank and lawyer history. According to records and articles on file at the Sapulpa Historical Museum, the Wells Building, originally the Clayton…

If you come into town from West Tulsa or downtown Tulsa, you've likely seen it—the almost nondescript white food truck that is parked at the corner of Lincoln and Mission streets in the parking lot of Family Video. But it's not exactly nondescript, is it? Because for now, it's Sapulpa's only food truck. Hard to miss.…

While Sapulpa was able to get by with largely little to show from Tuesday's storms, some of our more rural outposts weren't so lucky. Some damage was reported by several folks out on Hwy 33, including some severe damage to the roof the longtime Blue Bell Baptist Church, just a mile or so down the…

For so many of us, when we live high school or college, we leave behind a lot more than our friends and old flames; we leave behind literal hobbies and activities that we'd come to enjoy. Unless you go into a field where things like music or art are a regular part of your craft,…

And it's getting worse. A popular story by Fox23 has shown a light on a serious problem in Sapulpa's local animal shelter: overcrowding. In a facility equipped to handle 15 animals, the crowded population reaches 40 and growing. See the video What's worse, the administrators at the shelter say that the dogs coming through the doors…

Foundation in Sapulpa is working to plant a community center in every mobile home park in  Tulsa and Creek Counties. Their first trailer will go up by the end of April at River Oaks Mobile Home Park in Sand Springs, where they helped tornado survivors in 2015. The center will provide after school programs, food,…

In our on-going series featuring Sapulpa’s “Dive’s, Diners and Drive-Ins” we best not overlook one of the most famous of all -- Wimpy’s Diner. The historic icon, an old interurban street car converted into a small sit-down cafe on Sapulpa’s busy Dewey Street, still summons local memories of yesteryear. There have been numerous stories written…

The great thing about donuts is that they're pliable. With a little creativity, you can take a twist on a plain donut and make it memorable. If anyone in town has memorable donuts, it'd have to be Sapulpa Daylight Donuts, hands down. For nearly a decade, their colorful springtime twist on an old favorite has…

Funeral services for JoAnn (Hayes) Haag were held this past Wednesday in Sapulpa. She was the daughter of the builder and operator of popular Dixieland Skating Rink, and the niece of Clyde Hayes who built the Dixieland Park with its famous swimming pool. JoAnn was born in Bentonville, Arkansas on June 22, 1928, the only…