Westbound I-44/Turner Turnpike and the Stroud Service Plaza will be closed between state Highway 99 and the Stroud Service Plaza from 9 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday for crews to hang bridge beams for the Old Stroud Rd. bridge reconstruction.A detour will be the Highway 99 exit to Stroud to…
Darick Dale Carney is the son of Darin and Sara Carney. He has attended Meeker Public Schools since pre-k.Carney has a 4.0 GPA and is an honor graduate. He has also lettered in academics and is a member of the Technical Honor Society, Oklahoma Honor Society and National Honor Society.Clubs and…
Chandler Board of Education members have awarded contracts on two of the projects included in a bond proposal that voters overwhelmingly approved in February of 2023.School Supt. Scott Baade said the board awarded the contracts on the Media Center at East Side Elementary School and the Track Field…
A Stroud man who was a Lincoln County Jail inmate and charged last November with incitement to riot has pleaded guilty and been sentenced.David Keith Miller, about 31, was formally charged Nov. 13, 2023, in Lincoln County District Court with incitement to riot, a felony, and attemptmalicious injury…
Meeker’s Board of Education this week approved continuing contracts for certified staff, support staff and for extra duty for the 2024-2025 school year.Board members also voted to employ Melissa Newport as a Middle School teacher and accepted the resignation of Tommy Williams, custodian/maintenance…
The trial for a woman who was employed as a full time in-home nurse and charged with child abuse has been continued again, this time the October jury docket.Candice Elizabeth Bootenhoff, 39, of Luther was formally charged Oct. 31, 2022 in Lincoln County District Court with felony child abuse. She…
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for a Stroud motorist, who has at least four previous felony convictions and who was arrested and charged with driving while under the influence of drugs.Joshuah Dylan Standley, 33, was charged in Lincoln County District Court on Jan. 8, 2024,with driving a…
A jury trial date has been scheduled for a Stroud man facing a first degree murder charge related to the distribution of Fentanyl, a Controlled Dangerous Substance.Formal charges were filed in Lincoln County District Court Dec. 6, 2023, against Dillon Young, 30.A first amended information was filed…
A man facing felony kidnapping and domestic assault and battery by strangulation charges in addition to other felonies, has pleaded guilty and has been sentenced. A misdemeanor charge was also filed against him.Eliah Lively, 24, was formally charged Sep. 15, 2023 in Lincoln County District Court…
An Agra man facing two counts of child sexual abuse has been bound over to stand trial.John David Somers, Jr., 33, was formally charged in Lincoln County District Court on Jan. 4 this year with the two counts. He first appeared before Associate District Sheila Kirk in December who set his bond at $…
Chandler Board of Education members have awarded contracts on two of the projects included in a…
A Stroud man who was a Lincoln County Jail inmate and charged last November with incitement to riot…
Westbound I-44/Turner Turnpike and the Stroud Service Plaza will be closed between state Highway 99 and the Stroud Service Plaza from 9 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday for crews to hang bridge beams for the Old Stroud Rd. bridge reconstruction.A detour will be the Highway 99 exit to Stroud to westbound Route 66 to northbound state Highway 18 to westbound I-44/Turner Turnpike at Chandler.Additionally, eastbound I-44/Turner Turnpike will be closed between state Highway18 at Chandler and state Highway 99 at Stroud between 9 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m…
Lincoln County News
Darick Dale Carney is the son of Darin and Sara Carney. He has attended Meeker Public Schools since pre-k.Carney has a 4.0 GPA and is an honor graduate. He has…
Meeker’s Board of Education this week approved continuing contracts for certified staff, support staff and for extra duty for the 2024-2025 school year.Board…
The trial for a woman who was employed as a full time in-home nurse and charged with child abuse has been continued again, this time the October jury docket.…
Sports
Above, Chandler’s 4x400 relay team (center) of Carson Jackson, Brooklyn Hammons, Lexi Martzall and Cali Hilgenfeld listens to the starter’s instructions pre-…
Senior Ashlee Beatty (center, seated), also known as Leo the Lion, signs a letter of offer for the University of Central Oklahoma, where she will be the school…
Area track teams and individuals stood out Monday during regional track meets.Above, Wellston freshman Savanah Gaylord won the 800 meters and finished second…
Lifestyle
Upper left, the Stroud Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to Dr. Tim Moore by Logan Miller. In the upper right, Julie Bivin receives…
Juanita McElvany Hill Leak has accomplished a lot of living in 100 years.
She was born on January 30, 1924, between the cities of Prague and Okmulgee to…
Stroud resident Agnes Baker recently celebrated her 100th birthday and was inducted into the Centenarians of Oklahoma Hall of Fame. Born on Jan. 22, 1924,…