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Second Half Taxes In Kay County Due Before April 1

Kay County Treasurer Christy Kennedy would like to remind people tax payers that the 2nd half of their taxes are due before April 1 and that paying online with eCheck is free at kaycounty.org....

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Tonkawa Post Office Celebrating 125th Birthday

Friday, March 9 might just sound like an ordinary day, but it’s a actually a special day for the community of Tonkawa. March 9 marks the 125th birthday of Tonkawa’s post office which opened in 1894...

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Newkirk Takedown Club Girls Place At State

The Newkirk Takedown Club Girls team attended the third annual OKWA Girls State Champions on February 15-16 and returned home to Newkirk as State Runners Up. The wrestling members for the Lady Tigers...

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Newkirk City Street Project On The Move Forward

There are a number of streets in Newkirk that are in need of repairs due to deterioration from the weather, as well as traffic and age. The city is one step closer to rehabilitating those streets as...

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Takedown Club Competes At State Tournament In Tulsa

The Newkirk Takedown Club team traveled Feb. 15-16 to attend the 41st Oklahoma Kids Wrestling Association State Tournament in Tulsa. Attending for the tigers were seven wrestlers who had to qualify the...

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Ponca City Humane Society Holding Food Drive Through March

The Ponca City Humane Society is boosting its efforts to collect pet food through the end of March and is asking the public to help them feed animals in need. PCHS Director Patricia Amador said the...

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First Lutheran Student Named Semifinalist For GeoBee Competition

First Lutheran Seventh Grader Kyle King has been notified by the National Geographic Society that he is one of the semifinalists eligible to compete in the 2019 National Geographic GeoBee State of...

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East Middle School Students To Demonstrate Used Technology

The students at East Middle School in Ponca City will be demonstrating the technology they use on Tuesday, March 12. There will be snacks and random drawing giveaways. This is a part of Google Slam....

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Liles And Company Owner Recognized As ‘Achievers Under 40’

Liles and Company Boutique & Salon owner Terron Liles was named as one of Oklahoma’s “Achievers Under 40” by the Oklahoma City publication The Journal Record. 36-year-old Liles said that he stays...

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Guidlines Announced For Membership Show

The Ponca City Arts Center has recently announced the 2019 annual Membership Show guidelines. The opening reception will be on Thursday, April 11 from 5 until 7 p.m. at 819 East Central in Ponca City....

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Former OSU Basketball Players Bought BB Guns Night Of Stillwater Incident

Affidavits from the Oklahoma State University Police Department released last Thursday indicated two teammates accused ex-Cowboy basketball player Kentrevious Jones as the main culprit in a string of...

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Payne County Considered For New Community Health Center

It will take land, a grant from the federal government and much community support, Payne County could possibly be in the front-running for a Community Health Center. Community Health Centers of...

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Ponca Tribe Member Pleads Guilty To Involuntary Manslaughter

23 year-old Sage Atheakee Gomez, a member of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. According to the...

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Apply Early For Absentee Ballots

Voters in Kay County who want to have absentee ballots mailed to them for the April 2, School and Municipal Elections should apply now, County Election Board Secretary Chery Howard said today. Although...

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Blubaugh Elected AFR President

Scott Blubaugh of Tonkawa was elected as AFR/OFU president by voting delegates during the organization’s annual business session in Norman. Blubaugh is taking over after Terry Detrick, who served 10...

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Lincoln Students Slime Assistant Principal

If you ever watched much Nickelodeon growing up, you might be familiar with “slime” being poured on  people. Students at Lincoln Elementary School had a great time getting to “slime” their Assistant...

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Heavy Rains Create Flooding Concerns In Northern Oklahoma And Southern Kansas...

The good news is that Northern Oklahoma and Southern Kansas has received much needed rainfall Wednesday morning. The bad news is that the rain is likely to cause some flooding concerns throughout...

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Monday Night Fire At Continental Carbon Extinguished

A fire at Continental Carbon that at one point produced 40-foot flames was extinguished before doing any damage to the building infrastructure or equipment at the plant on Monday night. Ponca City Fire...

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Blackwell Parents And Friend Charged For Baby Abuse

Three Blackwell people are being charged with the abuse and neglect of three young children who are now in the care of DHS custody. According to KFOR-TV out of Oklahoma City, the investigation began...

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Kansas Man Involved In Noble County Fatality Collision

A fatality collision occurred on Wednesday, March 13 at 5:01 p.m. on Interstate 35 at mile marker 179 in Noble County south of Perry. What happened was that 70-year-old Candace Box of Perry was...

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