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, [...]
Fire Hydrant Testing in Wynona
The Wynona Fire Department and Utility department will begin testing fire hydrants right away. This may cause low water pressure or possible discolored water, so Wynonans are advised to be alert. This is an annual event and is necessary to discern which hydrants work and possibly repairing others. – Tennie Slone
Wynona Seniors 2013
Senior Class Facts Valedictorian: Kailey Jo Parker Salutatorian: Jo Lilette Johnson Song: “You’re Gonna Miss This” by Trace Adkins Colors: Turqoise and Black Flower: Dandelion Sponsor: Lorrie Reeves
Wynona house fire leaves family homeless
Wynonans, Stephen (Gibby) and Maggie Gibson and their grandson Dwayne Pappan lost their home in a fire on Wednesday, May 1. Wynona Fire Department responded as well as Hominy Fire Department. The mobile home was a total loss, according to family members. Donations are being accepted at Wynona Town Hall. The Red Cross has provided some food, [...]
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 [...]
Meet for Wynona Founds Day
The next Wynona Founders Day planning meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 7 at 7 p.m. Everyone is encouraged to attend and make plans for a fun filled Founders Day Saturday, June 8. We also need for lots of businesses and individuals to plan on having a float in the parade. We are having [...]
Wynona Police Report
There have been reports of numerous burglaries, break-ins, and prowlers in the Wynona area. Wynona Police Officer John Ferguson advises Wynonans to call Osage County Sheriff’s office, or Wynona Police Cell 918-697-4592 to report incidents. By Tennie Slone
A double double-cross
On Thursday, Heather Waggie and Joey Stone posted a photo on Facebook of themselves in front of Laverne’s wedding chapel in Miami, heads together and holding a marriage certificate that was conveniently out of focus. “Is that for real?” Kimberly Strate asked. “April 1st is really close, but I hope this is not a joke,” [...]
Going bald for St. Baldrick’s
Kelly Kanke watched her youngest son, David, fight cancer, and although he defeated the malignant tumor on the right side of his throat, some of his friends and fellow children with cancer have lost their hair and some even lives to the disease. Watching her son, known as ‘Lil D,’ and others struggle, Kelly has [...]
Little Bedlam game too cute, too funny to miss
The Wynona and Prue elementary schools competed in a little of their own Bedlam basketball competition last week. On Monday, March 25 Prue traveled to Wynona for the games, but on Friday, Wynona went to Prue. Photos are from the games in Prue. By Louise Red Corn
Turning a blind eye to barrel racing
Nearly two weeks ago Alexis Howell rode up to the starting line of the Oklahoma Cowgirls Association Jackpot barrel race in Sperry with her 13-year-old gelding. She had made similar runs hundreds of times and hundreds of competitions, but was the first time she had done so since her horse, Woodrow, went blind in his [...]
Rangers to the rescue
Without no animal shelters in Osage County, a few small private rescues face a heavy strain that can almost break them, like 7th Hope Animal Rescue in rural Barnsdall. But one rescue is trying a different approach from the typical kenneling and single site rescue. Oklahoma Rescue Rangers, just over the county line in Cleveland, [...]
Sports Results from March 5 – March 11
Results Tues., March 5 Barnsdall baseball vs Woodland 9-1, Barnsdall Barnsdall softball vs Prue Canceled. Pawhuska baseball vs Sperry 14-3, Sperry Pawhuska soccer vs Bristow 2-0, Pawhuska Skiatook baseball at Claremore 10-0, Claremore Woodland baseball at Barnsdall See Barnsdall baseball. Thurs., March 7 Barnsdall baseball vs Afton at S. [...]
Bee smart
Barnsdall seventh-grader Eli Shaw took first place and Barnsdall sixth-grader Samantha Willis took second at the Osage County Spelling Bee on Wednesday. The bee is open to fourth through eighth grade students who won their individual school spelling bees. The bee lasted seven rounds. There were 13 schools and 28 students. Other participants included: Taylor [...]
Sports Results from Feb. 28 – March 4
Thurs., Feb. 28 Shidler baseball vs Medford Snowed out. Fri., March 1 Barnsdall baseball at Sperry 8-1, Sperry Hominy baseball at Oilton No score provided. Skiatook bsktball* vs Nobel at Class 5A East Regionals in Sapulpa 46-45, Nobel * Season finished. Skiatook baseball vs Collinsville Rescheduled for March 9. Skiatook soccer vs Coweta G: 3-2, [...]
Medical Examiner’s backlog causes much grief
For families of those who have died – whether the death is accidental, murder or natural – backlogs at the state Medical Examiner’s Office have created painfully long delays. Timothy Hauser, whose remains have been at the ME’s office since the end of 2012, has actually had a short stay at that morgue compared to [...]
Oilfield concerns flare
Cattlemen and other landowners continued their full-court press last week to clean up oilfield activity in Osage County, pushing the Bureau of Indian Affairs for regulations that would bring the county “from worst to first” environmentally. At a meeting of the BIA and Osage Minerals Council Negotiated Rulemaking Committee that was highlighted by an OETA [...]
Aces in class
Several local schools made their way onto the Governor’s ACE Award list: Barnsdall, Hominy, Skiatook and Wynona. A total of 183 schools districts were on the list. The Governor’s Ace Award is given to school districts in which 100 percent of the seniors of the Class of 2012 met all graduation requirements, including Achieving Classroom [...]
Fire danger, season back
“Wildfire season has returned over most of Oklahoma,” says Wildlife Prevention Tech Ross Walker. The most vulnerable areas are grassy lands with large amounts of fine fuel loads, such as grass, but the forest fuels, such as leaves, won’t be far behind as dry conditions continue. “The current high fire danger will continue from now [...]
Kanke’s good news
David Kanke, known as Lil D, is cancer free, according to doctors and his mother Kelley Kanke. David, 5, of Wynona, had what appeared to be a tumor on the left side of his throat. Results from his latest scan came back and the growth had disappeared. He will have another follow-up scan in three [...]
Going once, going twice… sold!
Osage County’s 4-H groups gathered up at the county fairgrounds for showmanship contested starting Thursday. Awards were handed out Friday before the livestock auction at 7 p.m. By Rachel Anne Seymour and Louise Red Corn
Shelter woes spur demand for pet laws
For as long as anyone can remember, the abandoned and unwanted four-legged beasts of Osage County have found shelter with privately-funded do-gooders. And often with poor success, as evidenced by 7th Hope Animal Rescue in Barnsdall, which was the subject of news stories last week after one of the shelter’s dogs, running loose, killed a [...]
Horse thief pleads guilty
A Wynona man pleaded guilty Thursday to two felony counts of larceny of domestic animals after stealing two horses he was hired to break and train. Michael John Delaney II, 28, received a 10-year deferred sentence with supervised probation and was ordered to pay $2,500 in restitution and another $1,700 in court costs. According to [...]
Peace promised at drilling site
Parties on both sides of an oilfield dispute that led to gunfire at the Happy Hollow lease No. 10 west of Wynona last month agreed to an injunction Tuesday morning that bars the landowner from intimidating employees of the oil company or using any “firearms, weaponry or ammunition” in their presence. The order was entered [...]
