May 23, 2013 e-edition flipbook
VOL. 94, NO. 6 The Bigheart Times e-edition is exactly like the printed paper, you can even flip the pages like a real newspaper, but it’s online. Don’t wait for the printing press or mailman anymore. Get the Bigheart Times bright and early on your computer or mobile device. We recommend the e-editions for desktop [...]
Wind group requests eagle kill permit
Wind Capital Group, which is poised to start building a 94-turbine generation facility near Burbank and Shidler, has applied for a federal permit allowing it to kill bald eagles without facing prosecution for the deaths incidental to the operation of the wind farm. Although Oklahoma has several wind farms, the Osage County project, Osage Wind [...]
Assistant chief: rape suspect is a ‘big teddy bear’
The assistant chief of the Osage Nation testified at a bond reduction hearing for a man charged in a brutal rape and kidnapping is “a big teddy bear” who has never been known to be a danger to anyone. Assistant Chief Scott BigHorse made his statements May 7 at a bond reduction hearing for Christopher [...]
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 [...]
Designer talks inspirations, lifestyle
He’s an Oklahoma native with big dreams and bigger ambition. Devon Gaines, the energetic 21-year-old entrepreneur who runs Townmaker Square, and interior designer to boot, is making plans to leave Oklahoma, but hopefully not forever. Gaines said he plans to open an interior design business in Dallas or New Orleans. “It’s still very up in [...]
Gun thief has no time
A man who was linked to a Hominy gun theft by DNA from spittle on a photo frame in 2010 pleaded guilty last week and received a 10-year suspended sentence as part of the plea deal but will serve 10 weekends in the Osage County Jail. Ronald Keith Gilley, 48, pleaded to the second-degree burglary [...]
Company moves ahead with pipeline project
The Osage County Commissioners’ decision to approve and sign road and bridge agreements and permits with Enbridge Pipelines is helping the pipeline process move along at an appropriate pace, said Kevin O’Connor, Enbridge’s spokesperson for the Flanagan South pipeline project in Osage County. The pipeline is planned to stretch from Flanagan, Ill., to Cushing, and [...]
May 16, 2013 e-edition flipbook
VOL. 94, NO. 5 The Bigheart Times e-edition is exactly like the printed paper, you can even flip the pages like a real newspaper, but it’s online. Don’t wait for the printing press or mailman anymore. Get the Bigheart Times bright and early on your computer or mobile device. We recommend the e-editions for desktop [...]
A cowboy to the end
John Tallchief was a lot of things: A World War II veteran twice injured in action, an Osage who served on the Tribal Council for 24 years, a father, a grandfather and a mentor for many in his hometown of Fairfax. But most of all, he was a cowboy and a steer roper who began [...]
Lawsuits pile up against former music minister
The number of people accusing a former Barnsdall music minister who also worked as a financial advisor of defrauding them is growing, with the latest accusations leveled by several Osage County businessmen. One couple in the burgeoning number of people who claim they were duped lost $343,500 to Dearman, and Bartlesville Realtor Marya Gray, the [...]
Former BIA regional director under investigation
Jeanette Hanna, the former regional director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who oversaw the Osage Agency, is the target of a scathing report by the Department of Interior’s Inspector General that depicts the BIA as rewarding an employee who was under investigation. Hanna, who has been the subject of numerous complaints in eastern Oklahoma, [...]
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 [...]
Osage County Treasurer to retire
The Osage County Treasurer’s office is in for some changes. Treasurer Joyce Hathcoat announced her retirement, effective June 30, at Monday’s County Commissioners’ meeting. “My husband is fixing to retire, and I’ve been here for 30 years and I feel like it’s time for me to move on,” she said. Hathcoat was elected to County [...]
May 9, 2013 e-edition flipbook
VOL. 94, NO. 4 The Bigheart Times e-edition is exactly like the printed paper, you can even flip the pages like a real newspaper, but it’s online. Don’t wait for the printing press or mailman anymore. Get the Bigheart Times bright and early on your computer or mobile device. We recommend the e-editions for desktop [...]
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 [...]
Cops work unusual burlargies
Some unusual burglaries have been reported in Osage County in the past week, including the heist of a hefty gun safe containing an as-yet undetermined number of weapons and commercial burglaries in which the thieves took nothing. The gun theft occurred east of Barnsdall on State Highway 11 and was reported by a caretaker at [...]
Barnsdall hires a keeper for chief
Barnsdall, which suffered various public police embarrassments over the past several years, hired a new chief Tuesday that others in the legal community says is a real keeper: John Ferguson, a man with 31 years of law enforcement experience who is retiring as an investigator for the Osage County Sheriff’s Office. The City Council voted [...]
Preordained for the priesthood
When he was just a toddler, Todd Nance stood apart from the other young parishioners at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Hominy. While the other kids climbed over pews, fidgeted and ran around the nave, he was rapt, fascinated by the rites and ceremony administered by Father Jerry Ryan. “Todd would stand there enthralled,” his [...]
May 2, 2013 e-edition flipbook
VOL. 94, NO. 3 The Bigheart Times e-edition is exactly like the printed paper, you can even flip the pages like a real newspaper, but it’s online. Don’t wait for the printing press or mailman anymore. Get the Bigheart Times bright and early on your computer or mobile device. We recommend the e-editions for desktop [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
