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Rig Report: U.S. oil, gas rig numbers remain constant

News Staff
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
From staff reports The U.S. oil and gas rig activity held mostly steady over the past week as the latest Baker Hughes Rig Count showed a decline of only one rig, leaving a total of 592 active throughout the country.Oklahoma held steady at 53 rigs, nine more than the 44 rigs reported one year ago.

Proposed Port Service Fees Would Impact Red Meat Exports

News Staff
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
From staff reports The Office of U.S. Trade Representative held hearings last week on a proposal to impose a service fee for each U.S. port call of a Chinese-operated ship, or a per-net-ton service fee applied on the ship’s carrying capacity.The U.S.
Curtis W. Awbrey | Southwest Ledger Monday afternoon traffic travels north and south along 38th Street at Lee Boulevard. Lawton-based T&G Construction won a $4.349 million contract to improve the mile-long section of 38th Street between Gore and Lee boulevards. T&G’s bid was 22.8% lower than the engineer’s $5.635 million estimate.

Curtis W. Awbrey | Southwest Ledger Monday afternoon traffic travels north and south along 38th Street at Lee Boulevard. Lawton-based T&G Construction won a $4.349 million contract to improve the mile-long section of 38th Street between Gore and Lee boulevards. T&G’s bid was 22.8% lower than the engineer’s $5.635 million estimate.

T&G Construction awarded $4.3M contract on 38th Street rehab project

Mike W. Ray Southwest Ledger
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
A Lawton company won a contract to improve the mile-long section of 38th Street between Gore and Lee boulevards.T&G Construction was one of four bidders for the job. Their $4.349 million bid was 22.8% lower than the engineer’s $5.635 million estimate.
The Lawton Water Authority will spend $47 million to repair the damaged concrete spillway and apron at Lake Ellsworth. The 363-foot-long spillway was damaged when heavy rains in 2015 forced the city to open the floodgates to release runoff water that otherwise would have topped the dam.Sgt. Arnold. David B. Hale | Southwest Ledger

The Lawton Water Authority will spend $47 million to repair the damaged concrete spillway and apron at Lake Ellsworth. The 363-foot-long spillway was damaged when heavy rains in 2015 forced the city to open the floodgates to release runoff water that otherwise would have topped the dam.Sgt. Arnold. David B. Hale | Southwest Ledger

Lawton receives $39M loan to repair Ellsworth, Lawtonka, Gondola dams

Mike W. Ray Southwest Ledger
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Water Resources Board approved a $39 million low-interest loan that the Lawton Water Authority will couple with grants totaling almost $14 million to finance repairs to the dams at Lakes Ellsworth and Lawtonka and to rehabilitate the Gondola Lake Dam.
Mike W. Ray | Southwest Ledger Northbound vehicles cross one of the two aged, narrow, and nearly identical bridges on South 11th Street between Interstate 44 and Southwest Pecan Road on March 26, 2024. Both bridges will be closed April 1 for eight months while new 32-foot-wide bridges are built, Lawton City Councilman George Gill announced. One structure spans Wolf Creek, and the other straddles a tributary. Traffic to the city’s landfill will be rerouted during construction.

Mike W. Ray | Southwest Ledger Northbound vehicles cross one of the two aged, narrow, and nearly identical bridges on South 11th Street between Interstate 44 and Southwest Pecan Road on March 26, 2024. Both bridges will be closed April 1 for eight months while new 32-foot-wide bridges are built, Lawton City Councilman George Gill announced. One structure spans Wolf Creek, and the other straddles a tributary. Traffic to the city’s landfill will be rerouted during construction.

Councilman Gill on motorists running red lights: ‘You can’t fix stupid’

Mike W. Ray Southwest Ledger
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Regardless of how many traffic signals are installed in Lawton intersections, some motorists ignore red lights.“You can’t fix stupid,” Councilman George Gill said.
Twenty-eight states used private prison facilities in 2022

Twenty-eight states used private prison facilities in 2022

Twenty-eight states used private prison facilities in 2022

News Staff
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Three years ago, 18.7% of Oklahoma’s convicts were incarcerated in private prisons such as the ones in Law ton and Hinton that are operated by GEO. Montana led the nation with almost half of its inmate population in private prisons in 2022.
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