Ferguson Features

The Friends of the Ferguson Home will celebrate the 169th birthday of Thompson Benton (T.B.) Ferguson at 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday March 17 at the Watonga City Hall. Ferguson, along with his wife, Elva, was a pioneering Republican publicist and governor of Oklahoma Territory.

The Lankford Letter

Dear Oklahoma friends and neighbors: February went by fast, didn’t it?

A Bubble Off Plumb

I saw somewhere that it is time for that wretched spring ahead, fall behind nonsense again.Personally, I think it is diabolical plot to send us humans into at least a week of not knowing what time it is or what we are doing because our internal time clocks are thoroughly fouled up How ’bout them...

A Bubble Off Plumb

Something that came to me recently in the early hours was – we need a makerspace in Watonga.Makespace is a collaborative community driven workspace where people can go to create, learn and share ideas and use shared tools.For example, someone came to me about making – sewing – a heat suppressor for...

Lankford Letter

Dear Oklahoma friends and neighbors: I hope everyone is finally thawed out around our state. The cold was brutal in Oklahoma and in Washington DC. Based on the shelves in the grocery stores, it looked like some families also had fun cooking together.

Ferguson Features

Edwin P. McCabe died on March 12, 1920. At his funeral, only his wife and the undertaker were present. One wonders how such an important figure in Governor Thompson B. Ferguson’s administration could die in relative obscurity. National Park Service.

A Bubble Off Plumb

Almost every morning I get up early, grab a cup of coffee and head to my sewing room. It looks like someone’s Pintrest board exploded in there and then got rammed by a Hobby Lobby truck that overturned. But it is my chaos and I thrive in it.When I was in middle school, girls had to take Home Ec.

Property Tax Relief the Smart Way

Property taxes have taken center stage in many states’ discussions on tax reform.

Ferguson Features

This week brought plenty of cold, snow and wind to western Oklahoma. But can you imagine arriving in Oklahoma in 1892 as the Fergusons did when the temperature dropped to 11 degrees in OKC? And this was before wind chill factors were calculated.

A Bubble Off Plumb

It is something that none of us wants to imagine, being stranded in our car/truck on the side of the road in a remote location, perhaps in the cold or dark, out of signal or with a dead cell phone. The feeling of helplessness in that kind of situation is awful.Except for one thing.