Barnsdall state champs visit Capitol
The Barnsdall Panthers softball team, sponsored by state Rep. Sean Roberts and state Sen. Eddie Fields, were honored by the Oklahoma Legislature for their accomplishments this school year. The Panthers were undefeated in both district and regional play of slow-pitch softball and emerged victorious as the 2013 State Class 2A Champions. Photo submitted
Students in the outfield
Ms. Glynda Hunt was a recent recipient of a Skiatook Public Schools Support Foundation Grant for her proposal “Ag in the Outfield.” This grant funded supplies for examining the game of baseball hands on. Third grade students in Ms. Hunt’s classroom made comparisons of different types of balls and the materials used to make them. [...]
Bookworm challenge for Wynona students
Wynona Superintendent Dixie Hurd is presenting a challenge to all PreK – 11 students. She is challenging students to read for 30 minutes a day for 5 days per week for the entire summer. There will be 12 weeks and there should be a grand total of 1,800 minutes. Reading materials can be books, magazines, [...]
Board cuts vice principal position, hears from mother about lost child
The Pawhuska School Board of Education voted, after much discussion, against rehiring Vice Principal Joel Witcher for the 2013-14 school year. Superintendent Landon Berry said they decided to cut the vice principal position for financial reasons. “Our [weighted] enrollment is down almost 78 kids,” Berry said. “And with the sequester, our federal funding is down [...]
Graduations
These are some of our favorite photos from the Barnsdall kindergarten and high school and Hominy high school graduations! By Rachel Anne Seymour
Sports Results April 30 – May 6
RESULTS Tues., April 30 Barnsdall softball at 2A State G1: Barnsdall 11, Turner 10 G2: Barnsdall 9, Dewar 4 G3: Barnsdall* 17, Soper 11 * State Champions Skiatook soccer at 5A State G1: Booker T 5, Skiatook 0 Season ended. Fri., May 2 Pawhuska baseball 3A Regionals G1: Perkins-Tryon 9, Pawhuska 4 G2: Pawhuska 7, [...]
School van kills 11 bison
At 11:20 p.m. Wednesday, workers at Ted Turner’s Bluestem Ranch had their hands full. One of the bison ranch’s fences had been breached, and about 100 yearling buffalo had streamed out in force and onto U.S. 60 about seven miles west of Pawhuska. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Bluestem ranch manager John Hurd called [...]
Bulldogs singing, art honors
Several Skiatook students received a superior rating at State Solo and Ensemble competition. Those students bringing home a State medal for their solo or all state kids 2013 ensemble are Ashley Ghazal, Drew Tiger, Jacob Turner, Kionna Underwood, Anthony Milligan Gardenhire, Andrew Summers, Nicholas Klein, Elizabeth Wasson, Brittnee Lambillotte, Hannah Vaughn and Jessica Cryan. Seven [...]
Sports Results from April 23 – April 30
RESULTS Tues., April 23 Skiatook golf (G) 5A Regionals at Pryor Bailey Parker 112; Abi Sutherland 120; Jayci Jones 128; Kailey Rumery 127; Kara Rumery 136 Skiatook soccer at Nathan Hale G: 7-0, Skiatook B: 1-0, Skiatook Thurs., April 25 Barnsdall softball 2A Regionals G1: Barnsdall 5, Pond Creek 0 G2: Barnsdall 10, Mason 1 [...]
Panthers win Class 2A State Softball Tournament
For the first time in Joe Gilbert’s coaching career, the Barnsdall slow pitch softball team won the Class 2A State Championship Tuesday night in Oklahoma City. Gilbert, who has been coaching for more than 50 years, has only one other state title, the 1980 baseball title. On Tuesday the Panthers started off by defeating Turner [...]
5-year-old gone astray from school is safe, but parents irked
Brianna Cass, a 5-year-old kindergartner from Pawhuska with flyaway hair and big brown eyes, says she was scared Monday when she got off the school bus and found no one at home. Brianna’s parents, Jake and Stormy Cass, were fit to be tied that Pawhuska’s Indian Camp Elementary School lost track of their daughter, who [...]
Pawhuska’s Field of Dreams wins tentative lease agreement on split vote
In a rare split vote to which they were pushed by several passionate souls, the Osage County Commissioners approved leasing unused land near the county jail to a group that intends to build a ball field complex. Commissioner Scott Hilton cast the lone no vote, with Bob Jackson and Darren McKinney voting yes to approve [...]
Sports Results from April 16 – April 22
RESULTS Tues., April 16 Barnsdall softball at Mounds 12-3, Barnsdall Barnsdall baseball at Hominy 13-9, Barnsdall Pawhuska soccer at Hilldale 1-0, Hilldale Shidler softball A Districts G1: Shidler 15, M-O 2 G2: Copan 9, Shidler 4 G3: Shidler 13, Coyle 3 G4: Copan* 17, Shidler 11 * Champions Skiatook baseball vs Coweta 2-1, Skiatook Skiatook golf [...]
Everyone loves Sayra
Unofficially, Barnsdall Junior and High School Principal Russell McCauley Jr. will be retiring at the end of the year, and his unofficial successor will be Sayra Bryant, a Barnsdall graduate and current high school teacher. “Usually there’s a line of students out my door to see me,” she said after school Tuesday. The school board [...]
Prom proud pawhuskans
The Pawhuska Huskies had their annual prom event Saturday. This year they marched into the Women’s Building at the Osage County Fairgrounds to their Hollywood theme dance. Photos by Jack Buzbee
Bulldogs coach honored
Congratulations to Skiatook’s Patrick Dinneen who was voted the Region 7 Jr. High Coach of the Year. – Skiatook Schools
State Debating Bulldogs
Two Skiatook teams reached the State Debate quarterfinals held at the University of Oklahoma on April 11-13. Senior partners Riley Schulte and Allison Riggenbach reached the quarterfinal round of contest and lost a split 2-1 judges decision against Cascia Hall to end the tournament as fifth in the state. Sophomore Tristan Loveless and freshman Sarah Smith partnered to [...]
Sports Results from April 9 – April 15
RESULTS Tues., April 9 Barnsdall baseball vs Shidler 5-1, Shidler Hominy baseball vs Oilton 12-4, Hominy Hominy track at Ponca City Girls: None Boys: 10th with 20 pts Event – Place – Name – Time 4x100m relay – 6 – Hominy ‘A’ – 48.34 4x200m relay – 6 – Hominy ‘A’ – 1:37.72 high jump [...]
Special Olympic Huskies finish fast, first
Tyshawn Cochrane looks back over his right shoulder as his arms pump back and forth. He’s in the lead of the 100 meter speed walk and is not about to give it up. In the end he takes home a blue ribbon for the event, along with fifth in the softball throw from the Area [...]
On that note
The Skiatook vocal music program came back with the prestigious OSSAA State Plaque for its Women’s Choir achieving a Superior rating at the 5A level. Only one rating by one judge kept the mixed choir from achieving the same rating. They received an excellent rating. The Skiatook choir program brought home four trophies with two Superior and two Excellent [...]
Tanzania fellowship
Fund for Teachers awarded Skiatook teacher Carol Ward a 2013 grant award in the amount of $5000 to pursue a proposed fellowship project: Participating as a volunteer teacher in the Maasai village in Tanzania and explore the wildlife on Safari, so to expose students to the education, lifestyles, traditions and wildlife of Africa. Fund for Teachers [...]
National S.T.E.M.
On Wednesday afternoon, Skiatook High School students Sarah Smith, Kathryn Adams, Mary Loveless, and Trey Manz were notified that they had won 1st place in Oklahoma for their research and presentation entry in a National S.T.E.M. competition. According to the competition website, it is a web-based Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) competition free for [...]
Panthers parade to prom
The Barnsdall Panthers paraded out of the school Saturday night and headed to Woolroc for their annual junior-senior prom. This year’s walk out started at 7 p.m., an hour later than last year’s. The past two years the school has had a ‘walk out’ instead of a ‘walk in’ since the prom was moved to [...]
Bulldogs say bid farewell to seniors
The Skiatook Bulldogs had their senior night before the varsity game against Glenpool Friday night. The Skiatook JV beat Glenpool 12-3 before the senior night ceremony. The varsity Bulldogs won their game 1-0. Every one of the senior said that their favorite memory was the dog pile after winning the Regional Tournament and heading to [...]
