Students blistered in softball game against their teachers
While all the official school sports have ended, state competitions are over and school is winding down, one of the biggest Barnsdall sporting events was saved for last – the student teacher softball game. It is a tradition that has been going on “forever,” according to Coach Joe Gilbert, although it’s not as old as [...]
Rexwinkle’s first class graduates high school
There was plenty of talk and speeches at the Memorial Field in Barnsdall on Thursday that were devoted to the topic of the seniors’ future and life advice. But the Tuesday before had been all about their past, specifically their past in D’Ann Rexwinkle’s fifth grade class. Rexwinkle died after a short battle with clear [...]
Third time’s a charm for wagon races
Two years ago, Johnny Williams and family started off with a bold idea to bring wagon races and pasture rodeo to Skiatook, and the idea has turned into a fixture in these parts. Last weekend, they held their first spring wagon race at the family ranch on 3900 Road, drawing in hundreds of spectators, dozens [...]
Bucks graduate, tears and all
Hominy High School held it’s graduation ceremony Friday night in Hominy. There were plenty of tears and smiles surrounded with some purple pride. Shidler and Woodland High School have their graduation ceremonies Fri., May 18, while Skiatook’s is Thurs., May 24, and Pawhuska’s is Fri., May 25. Photos by Louise Red Corn
Little sports for the Little Olympics
Skiatook’s Marrs Elementary School had it’s first grade Little Olympics at the high school football field Monday morning. Tuesday morning the second grade competed in their own Little Olympics. Awards were given out in the afternoon. Photos by Rachel Anne Seymour
Little caps for little grads
Barnsdall’s kindergarten had their graduation ceremony Tuesday night at the Elementary School. They were ready as ever for the first grade, as one little girl said. Photos by Rachel Anne Seymour
Hornets sting dogs out in State Quarter-Finals
Although the Skiatook soccer team lost their grasp at at the state tournament after falling to the Booker T. Washington Hornets, 2-0, in the quarter-final round of state playoffs, it wasn’t the shutout the score might leave you to believe. “The game was a lot closer than a 2-0 game,” Skiatook Head Coach Steve Mason [...]
Bulldogs race in Regionals
The Skiatook Bulldogs competed in the 5A Regional Track Meet in Skiatook Saturday. Nine athletes qualified to compete in the State Track Meet in Yukon May 11-12. Individual results are listed under the photo gallery below. Photos by Rachel Anne Seymour Skiatook (5A) Regional Track Meet in Skiatook Sat., May 5 EVENT – PLACE [...]
Pro rodeo hits P-town
The Pawhuska IPRA Rodeo ”OKLAHOMA TWISTER RODEO SERIES” whirled into Osage County Fairground at the Clarence L Brantly Indoor Arena May 4-5. Competitors from all across the county, state and mid-west came to take part in the event. Shidler’s one armed bandit performed along with a Branson, Mo., rodeo clown. Photos by Rachel Anne Seymour
Taking a season ending to the face
Back-to-back losses in a best of three against the Caney Valley Trojans hit the Pawhuska Huskies hard, ending their season at Districts in Ramona Thursday. Frustrations flared and blood spilled in the second game. With a close one-point game there were several mid-game calls that could have gone either way, but went to Caney Valley [...]
Feet to the pavement, athletes in the air
Regionals for Pawhuska, Shidler and Woodland took place at Ormand Beach Stadium in Pawhuska Saturday. Hominy track competed in Oologah for regionals. Photographs are from the Pawhuska 3A & 1A Regionals. Results are listed below the photo gallery. Photos by Rachel Anne Seymour Pawhuska (3A) Regional Finals EVENT – PLACE – NAME – TIME 100 [...]
Peewee power house
T-Ball and other summer sports are kicking off in the Osage, and we want your schedules so we can’t capture those youthful moments, like the one above of Wynona Fireball Joshua Fine hotfooting it to first base in the season openers against the Barnsdall Giants. Or maybe you prefer a game moment amid Giants. Got [...]
A day just for children
The Osage Nation’s annual Day of the Child celebration took place Wednesday with visiting kids, critters, fire trucks and more. Photos by Louise Red Corn
Changes afoot at Bighearttimes.com
On Wednesday, The Bigheart Times made an unusual move for a newspaper: We put our website behind a pay wall. It’s also unusual for a weekly newspaper with a two-person newsroom to have a website of our caliber. The new move should please our past e-subscribers, who have been gradually left without access to the [...]
Walkout to Woolaroc
Barnsdall’s prom moved to Woolaroc this year, which meant the students held a walkout, not walkin, this year before they caravanned to Woolaroc. The dance, as well as dinner, was held inside the event center, because of a chance of scattered storms moving through the area.
Kicking up dust on the track
The Hominy Bucks and Woodland Cougars, as well as Newkirk and Blackwell, traveled to Pawhuska to compete in the Big 8 Conference Track Meet Monday. Pawhuska will also be the Regional Track Meet host Sat., April 28. Events begin at 9:30 a.m. at the football field and surrounding area. Photos by Rachel Anne Seymour
Times takes home awards
The Bigheart Times took home almost a dozen awards Saturday in the Society of Professional Journalists Oklahoma Pro Chapter’s 2011 contest among all newspapers in the state with circulations of 25,000 or under. Photographer Rachel Anne Seymour was given the top award in her field, with the best photographic portfolio, while Publisher Louise Red Corn [...]
Senior boys will be boys, girls will make hats
Each year the Barnsdall senior girls decorate hats with the mothers. This year they took off from school Tuesday and met at the Barnsdall Methodist Church. What was unusual about this senior day is that it was the first year the senior boys also got to have their own get together. Coach Jason Cole and [...]
PRUC young riders
The Pawhuska Round Up Club had its first Playday of 2012 on Saturday, introducing some new young ‘uns into the future rodeo mix. Photos by Louise Red Corn
Huskies pop ‘em up, Bucks knock ‘em down
The Hominy Bucks trailed for most of their home game against the Pawhuska Huskies last week, but pulled ahead during the fifth before pushing the dogpack to the curb with a 12-9 victory. Even as they trailed, the confident Bucks weren’t going to slow down, with their feet or their mouths. Confidence is key, and [...]
What’s in a name? Ask Cletus Hogg, Pork Chop and Bacon
Green and pink furred goats, along with green glittering cows and pigs paraded through the livestock arena auction in Pawhuska on Friday night. As unusual as they looked, they also had some unusual names. James Wilson’s first two hogs were named Pork Chop and Bacon. The Shidler native and Triple-T 4-H member is now on [...]
Dance off at the father-daughter dance
The Pawhuska High School Student Council held a father-daughter dance at the Pawhuska Elk’s Lodge Saturday night for girls in sixth grade and younger. Dance contest and prizes were handed out at the event, but almost everyone left with a prize. The event wasn’t just for dad’s and daughters, uncles, grandfathers and other family members were welcome.
Skiatook wrestlers bulldog Catoosa during senior night
The Skiatook Bulldog wrestlers took Catoosa down 47-28 senior night at the Skiatook Multi-Purpose Activity Center Thurs., Feb. 2. It was Head Coach Rick Reeves’ last home dual before he retires at the end of the season. This weekend the team heads to Dual State. Photos by Rachel Anne Seymour Purchase photographs
Pawhuska Boxer swings hard in Kansas
Pawhuska Osage ameturer boxer Ben Cottingham will head Colorado in late February for the first qualifying tournament of this year’s Summer Olympics. He is one fight away from being the Oklahoma State Champion. Below are several videos of Cottingham (red headgear) fighting in the Kansas-Oklahoma Regional Golden Gloves finals at the Memorial Hall in Hutchinson, Kan., March 27, 2010. [...]
