School Board Fills Seat

In a special meeting on August 6, the Watonga School Board established that seat #3 was vacant. It had previously been filled by Courtney Nagel.The verification of the vacancy allowed the board to entertain applications and fill the post, which they did at the regular meeting August 9.

Ferguson Features

One of T.B. Ferguson’s tenants in office was to not interfere with choosing candidates from within the Republican Party. Within months of taking office in December 1901, the 1902 elections loomed close.

SENIOR CENTER NEWS

On Tuesday, August 25, we have a chance to exercise our right to vote in the state run-off elections. We have an opportunity to vote for governor, superintendent of schools, labor commissioner, insurance commissioner and state senator, in certain parties.

Today In History

August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 134 days remain until the end of the year.1901–present1903 – The Transfiguration Uprising breaks out in East Thrace, resulting in the establishment of the Strandzha Commune.

Blaine County Courthouse News

Civil CourtRocket Mortgage LLC vs Timothy Ryan Jones, Foreclosure LVNV Funding LLC vs Lori Schaefer, Indebtedness Onemain Financial Group LLC Et Al, As Issuer Loan Trustee For, Onemain Financial Issuance Trust 2023-2 vs Cathina Jo Schroeder, Indebtedness Michael Allen Combs vs State Of Oklahoma,...

New Campus Rises From the Ashes

Afton Jameson, president of the Geary School Board, addressed the communityTuesday at the official groundbreaking for the construction of the new all-inclusive PreK-12 campus.

Multi-Car Fatality at Canton Y

According to a report from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, an Arizona man died August 11 in a multi-car pileup at the Y nine miles west of Watonga.The report shows a 69year-old man of Safford, Arizona, was stopped at the intersection of State Highway 33 and U.S.