Community responds to tornado disaster
She couldn’t get a hold of her sister, who lives with her husband and sons in Moore, after the tornado. Terri Buffalohead, the director of Head Start in Skiatook, posted on Facebook after the storm: “Asking for prayers for my sister Pam and her family. They live in Moore, Ok and they got hit bad. [...]
Never a dull moment in race weekend
Look at those wagons go! This was the common refrain at this weekend’s wagon racing event in Skiatook as wagons and teams of mules careened around the track for first place. Some may think wagon racing is a crazy sport, and they may be right. Tales of flipped wagons, running over outriders, tripped horses and [...]
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. [...]
Uh-oh, Wagons Ho!
The Oklahoma Championship Wagon Races rumbled through Skiatook Saturday and Sunday. Contestants from throughout the Mid-west came to compete in the event which featured not only wagon racing, but horse racing, wild cow milking and burro racing. Read the full story by Sally Asher. By Louise Red Corn
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 [...]
O’Neal seeks to have search warrant suppressed, get guns back
A Skiatook businessman who was accused of shooting at dogs in the midst of his failed campaign for the city’s at-large council seat is asking that the search warrant – and all of the evidence gathered through it – be thrown out. In court filings by his attorney Earl Lawson, Pearson Leon O’Neal says there [...]
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 [...]
Skiatook foster parents face abuse charges
A Skiatook couple was booked into the Osage County Jail on Friday on felony charges related to abusing a foster child. Both both posted $50,000 bonds the same day and were released. Cari Eckhart, 26, and Kenneth Glenn Randolph, 37, are accused of harming a five-year-old boy who was admitted to St. Francis Hospital in [...]
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 [...]
Skiatook gets a mayor
The Skiatook’s new city council voted and approved councilman Randy Sien as the city mayor and councilman David Sutherland as the vice mayor during Monday’s special work meeting. Sien won reelection as an incumbent in the new ward district 5 while Sutherland ran for Ward 2 and won against Damon Pace and Nate Myers. Sien [...]
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 [...]
Skiatook teen hurt in one-car accident
A Skiatook teenager was injured in a one-car accident Thursday afternoon but was in stable condition at St. John’s Hospital in Tulsa. Tess Daugherty, 16, was northbound on 52nd West Avenue near 133rd Street North at 7:59 a.m. when she left the roadway, over corrected and went into a broadside and struck a culvert, according [...]
Casinos to move, expand
The Osage Nation’s casino enterprise is seeking to put two parcels of land into trust status before it builds new casinos just west of Bartlesville and at the U.S. 60-OK 99 T in Pawhuska. The land for the projects actually sold almost a year ago, but the nation used a straw buyer, a common practice [...]
Skiatook man charged in OKC murders
A man who lives in Skiatook was charged Thursday with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of a Blanchard woman and her unborn child in Oklahoma City. Joseph R. Cyr, 31, is being held without bond in the case, to which homicide investigartors said he was linked by DNA evidence as well as [...]
Skiatook scholarship in David Reed’s name
The children of David Reed, the Skiatook man who was killed by a .223 bullet fired by two men target shooting, has created a scholarship fund for graduating Skiatook High seniors who share his passion for athetlics, farming and community. Reed, 56, died in October 2011 as he was preparing to work on a combine. [...]
Osage County election results
Skiatook City Council 100 percent reporting Ward 1 Herb Forbes, 448 votes (46.8 percent) Debbie Cook* 337 votes Connie Clement, 173 votes Ward 2 David Sutherland, 663 votes (70.1 percent) Damon Pace, 181 votes Nate Myers, 102 votes Ward 3 Joyce Jech, 749 votes (80.4 percent) Moe Shoeleh, 185 votes [...]
Dog shooting charge filed
Leon O’Neal, the candidate for Skiatook City Council who was accused of shooting at dogs inside city limits, was charged Thursday with felony cruelty to animals. O’Neal, 51, entered a not guilty plea and was released on a $1,000 bond, but he might face more legal troubles encountered in the aftermath of a Skiatook police [...]
Hudson set for bench trial in Reed shooting
Robert Dalton Hudson, the young man accused of killing a Skiatook mason and farmer during an ill-advised target-shooting practice in October 2011, will stand trial before a judge June 24-26. Hudson waived his right to a jury trial and elected Tuesday morning to be tried by a judge only in the death of David Reed, [...]
Like a steer – only smaller
Snoopy and Henry are not what you typically picture when 4-H showmanship comes to mind. Together, the two rabbits owned by 4-H member Emily Clark, weigh less than five pounds. Snoopy, a full grown solid brown mini Rex buck, comes in at about 3.25 pounds, while the young 12-week-old black and white Polish named Henry [...]
The hunt for eggs was on
The rain cleared up just in time for the local Easter egg hunts. Barnsdall and Skiatook both held theirs outside after the rained cleared up. By Rachel Anne Seymour
Bulldogs, Huskies battle
The Skiatook Bulldogs (5A) defeated the Pawhuska Huskies (3A) 3-1 in Skiatook Thursday night. By Rachel Anne Seymour
