Weekly Stats – May 17, 2012
Skiatook baseball 5A State Quarter-Finals in Union May 10 Carl Albert 4, Skiatook 0 Read the story. Skiatook 5A State Track Meet in Yukon May 11-12 EVENT – PLACE – NAME – GRADE – TIME/DISTANCE 200m dash boys prelim – 12 – Dylan Keys – 12 – 23.39 4x800m relay girls – 12 – [...]
No. 1 in state takes out Bulldogs
The Skiatook Bulldogs’ game against the No. 1 ranked Carl Albert Titans didn’t quite go as they hoped in the 5A State Quarter-Finals at Union on Thursday. The Titans slowly chipped away at the Bulldogs with a run an inning from the second to the fifth, ending the game at 4-0 in the seventh. “There [...]
A first: Carrying the torch
While Osage County Deputy Sheriffs Travis Harris, Terry York and Kevin Burke rappelled down into the Oklahoma Special Olympics opening ceremonies in Gallagher Iba Arena in Stillwater on Wednesday night, Osage Nation Sgt. Michael Fish walked alongside athletes and other officers. All four of the men, including other officers from Highway Patrol Troop K, the [...]
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 [...]
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
Weekly Stats – May 10, 2012
Hominy baseball (2A) at Regionals in Oktaha Thurs., May 3 Latta 13, Hominy 1 Warner 12, Hominy 2 Hominy girls baseball Tennis at State Tournament Read the story. Hominy (2A) State Track in OKC EVENT – PLACE – ATHLETE – GRADE – FINAL TIME/DISTANCE discus girls – 10 – Keondre Mitchell – 12 [...]
Jim Roberts, a pioneer who made Skiatook grow, is remembered
Jim Roberts, a Skiatook developer who led the charge to turn the sleepy burg into one of the fastest-growing towns in Oklahoma, died Sunday in a fiery car crash in Rogers County. Roberts, 74, the proprietor of Roberts Real Estate and a man with many land interests in northeastern Oklahoma, was killed when his 2011 [...]
Dogs eat Tigers whole, head to State Tourn
Skiatook Head Coach Robert Harris unleashed the Bulldogs in the 5A Regional Championship game against the Tahlequahh Tigers, and the state hungry dog pack took off ready to eat. During the first inning Skiatook brought in three quick runs after shutting Tahlequahh out in their first attempt at bat. “It’s not how you start. It’s [...]
Simmons asks for change in record, but files no appeal against Sheriff
Daryl Simmons, the would-be candidate for Osage County Sheriff, filed a motion with the election board on Monday asking that the Election Board change its findings issued after a hearing at which he was disqualified as a candidate. Simmons was disqualified after the board decided he did not meet the legally required residency and voter [...]
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
Skiatook man killed in Rogers County crash
A 74-year-old Skiatook man died in a fiery car crash in Rogers County on Sunday afternoon after he went left of center and hit a tractor-trailer. Killed was Jimmy Roberts, a well-known Skiatook businessman who built Bridle Creek and many other developments. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Roberts was heading north on U.S. 169 [...]
Some dogs eat, some get eaten
The Skiatook Bulldog baseball team claimed the Regional Championship after three games on their home field, the final one being Friday night. They advance to the state tournament, which begins in Union Thursday. Last year the Bulldogs fell in two games during regional play. The Skiatook soccer team wasn’t as fortunate as the baseball team [...]
Johnson’s sentencing pushed back; Enos pleads guilty
Sentencing for Gary Johnson, Skiatook’s former superintendent, was rescheduled once again. It has been rescheduled several times. This time is was schedule for Wed., May 2 before Tulsa County Judge Tom C. Gillert moved the sentencing to June 15 along with Rick Enos’ sentencing date. Johnson plead guilty to four counts of bribery last year, [...]
Weekly Stats May 3, 2012
Barnsdall softball Regionals at Morrison Pioneer-Pleasant Vale 9, Barnsdall 4 Barnsdall 4, Morrison 0 Fairview 12, Barnsdall 3 Read the story. Hominy tennis at Tulsa 7 Conf. Wed., April 25 Read the story. Hominy baseball Districts vs Pawnee 13-7, Hominy 6-7, Pawnee 12-2, Hominy See the photos. Pawhuska baseball Districts vs Caney [...]
District Champ Bulldogs win first round towards state
Following two sudden deaths and two shootouts, the Skiatook Bulldogs defeated Pryor Tuesday night and will continue on in the State Tournament. “It was a very physical, defensive game,” Skiatook Head Coach Steve Mason. “It was really a defensive game.” Neither team was able to score during regular play, so a sudden death was [...]
Burbank floods; people evacuate
Early Monday morning storms wreaked havoc throughout the county. Lightning set fire to a home in Skiatook just before 3:30 a.m. Heavy rains eventually flooded and closed OK 18 north of Fairfax while residents in Burbank, just west of Pawhuska, woke to a river running through their small town of about 150 residents. In Burbank, [...]
“Lust” case ends in plea to abduction, not molestation
A Tulsa man who had been accused of lewdly molesting a 12-year-old girl pleaded no contest Friday to abducting her in order to assault her, and received a 10-year deferred sentence. The record of Joseph Abraham Brookshire, 22, will be wiped clean if he successfully completes the sentence without getting in trouble again, completes “impulse [...]
Two jury trials in the Osage end with acquittals
Jurors in a busy trial season in the Osage County Courthouse found two defendants not guilty last week in separate felony cases. Vernon Eugene Decker, 41, of Oakhurst, was found not guilty of assault with intent to kill in a bizarre and bloody case near Osage in January 2011, and Shane Anson, 22, was acquitted [...]
NOTICE about Skiatook open meetings
Executive Sessions by the Skiatook Board Of Trustees on March 27, April 4, April 24, 2012 were illegal and are subject to a Court Imposed Injunction and Restraining Order. All decisions made during these Executive Decisions are subject to a Court Injunction and Restraining Order. According to Joey Senat, Ph.D., Associate Professor, OSU School of [...]
Skiatook realtor accused Tulsa police captain of sexual misdeeds
A Tulsa police captain is the target of a protective order filed by a Skiatook Realtor who claims that the officer engaged in deviant sexual behavior with a 12-year-old but that the Tulsa Police Department’s Internal Affairs division has done nothing about it. Capt. Shawn M. King, 42, of TPD’s Gilcrease Division is also the [...]
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 [...]
Board nixes Simmons candidacy
Daryl Simmons, a Republican who described himself as “your new Sheriff” as he tweeted supporters, was disqualified as a candidate for the office on Monday after an 90 minute hearing before the Osage County Election Board. Sheriff Ty Koch had challenged Simmons candidacy on two points: That Simmons had not been a resident of Oklahoma [...]
