Annual City Wide Clean-Up Postponed
The Annual City-Wide Clean-Up for Mannford has been postponed due to wet and soggy grounds at the location of where the dumpsters are placed. City Manager Mike Nunneley said the new dates will be in May and those new dates will be posted in our newspaper as soon as...
Reporter’s Recipes 8/4/16
Mexican Deep-Dish Pizza Ingredients 1 (16 ounce) can refried beans 1 teaspoon black pepper 1 teaspoon ground paprika 1 pinch salt 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 1 green bell pepper, sliced 1 red bell pepper, sliced 1/2 onion, chopped 1/2 pound ground beef 1/2 pound...
Thinking Out Loud: Empty Feelings
By John T. Catrett, III Those hurting from the loss of loved ones describe it as feeling empty. Some people describe a physical sensation of being hollow. Others describe it as a constant state of ache and longing. The physical condition of grief is well...
Mindset: 10-14-16
By C.L. Harmon When we make room for others in our lives, we fill up spaces in our souls that might otherwise become cluttered with the baggage that accumulates over time. Life is in constant motion from our first breath to our last and within that time comes the sum...
24 Hour Pharmacist: Cryptoxanthin Found in Squash Helps Lung Cancer
By Suzy Cohen Autum is stunning here in Colorado and I wait for the leaves on the trees to begin to glow orange and yellow. I love how the temperature drops, and I get to dust off my beloved boots. There’s a pumpkin patch near my house that begins to boast its harvest...
Tour Of Old Mannford October 21
When is a ghost town not a ghost town? When it's Mannford, Oklahoma! Take a tour of this early beloved town with members of the Keystone Crossroads Historical Society on Friday, October 21. The tour begins at 5:00 p.m. with former resident and KCHS trustee Bill Alsip...
Notes To Self
Updated: 5/3/2018 (corrected author) By Saraya Storm Love yourself for all that you are. For when you do, the world will fall in love with your spirit. In a society where our beauty standards are defined by the vain and the unrealistic physical assets modified by both...
MPS Students Participate In Bike To School Day
We participate in Bike to School day in May also, but combine both events each time. We had approximately 175 students, family members and faculty participate. Cimtel provided breakfast bars and water. OSU Prevention Programs provided prizes when the walk was...
Dad’s Run 5K Dwight Woodrell Jr. Scholarship Run
5K and Fun Run to honor the memory of Dwight C. Woodrell Jr. this Saturday October 15, 2016. As a way of giving back to the community and remember the 15 year anniversary of Dwight Woodrell’s tragic death, the Woodrell family would like to continue to award a...
Fun Facts About Candy
The man who invented cotton candy, William James Morrison, was a dentist. Three Musketeers candy bars got their name because each bar originally came as three pieces, each with a different flavor, vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate, which is the one still used today....
Memorable Moments In History
On October 7, 1871 the most devastating fire in United States history is ignited in Wisconsin. Over the course of the next day, 1,200 people lost their lives and 2 billion trees were consumed by flames. Despite the massive scale of the blaze, it was overshadowed by...
Sandy Path Of Life: Pick Your Trash Up
By Sandy Welch Thompson I get that people like things a certain way in their lives, in their homes, etc. For me, it’s not so much how something is done; it’s just THAT these things are done. I live in a home with three kids, a husband, a couple of dogs and a lot of...
Creek County Arrest Report
Ledgerwood, John Douglas: WM 09/29/2016 Mannford, Ok ** Held ** Creek County Sheriff Office Awaiting Inital Apperance Arrest Location: Transfred From Clevenland Intake Reason: Cash Only - Charge: Ftp/Poss Of CDS W/Intent To Distribut. - Charge: FTP Poss Of Precursor -...
Mannford Football 2016 Homecoming
Mannford Football 2016 Homecoming: 9th: Anyston Weldon, CJ Porter 10th: Dakota Houston, Dallas Esmond 11th: Hunter Shipley, Jake Landrum 12th: Queen: Alexandra Millison, King: Quinton Cook Honorary King: Caleb Parker Shelby...
Sandy Path Of Life: 9-30-16
By Sandy Welch Thompson The good Lord gave us some senses: Sight, smell, taste, touch, hear. As simple of a concept as it is to understand, we do not use all of them successfully as individual gifts, let alone in combination with another. For instance, I could swear...
Archery Hunting for Deer, Turkey, Others Begins Oct. 1
Archery Hunting for Deer, Turkey, Others Begins Oct. 1 Some major archery hunting seasons will open Saturday, Oct. 1, in Oklahoma. The public archery seasons for deer, elk, bear, fall turkey and pronghorn antelope are set to begin 30 minutes before official...
Fishing Report for September 27, 2016
CENTRAL Hefner: September 26. Elevation dropping, water 77. Largemouth and smallmouth bass fair on buzz baits, crankbaits, jigs, plastic baits, PowerBait, spinnerbaits and topwater lures around docks, in the main lake, along riprap, rocks, shallows and shorelines....
This Edition In History: 9/1/16
On September 11, 1921, Fatty Arbuckle, a silent-film era performer at the height of his fame, is arrested in San Francisco for the rape and murder of Virginia Rappe. The scandal essentially put an end to his career. Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle was born on March 24, 1887,...
Creek County Jail Report
Curtice, James Ray WM 09/03/2016 Mannfordings, Ok ** Held ** Creek County Sheriff Office Classification: Awaiting Inital Apperance Arrest Location: 5390 South 385th West Ave Intake Reason: Cash Only - Charge: Failure To Pay-Trespassing - -- Bond: 585.62 Court Date:...
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