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The Legislature voted to authorize a $70 million bond issue to renovate the 85-year-old Jim Thorpe Office Building in Oklahoma City, on N. Lincoln Boulevard across the street from the State Capitol. PROVIDED

The Legislature voted to authorize a $70 million bond issue to renovate the 85-year-old Jim Thorpe Office Building in Oklahoma City, on N. Lincoln Boulevard across the street from the State Capitol. PROVIDED

Corporation Commission vacating Thorpe Bldg. for $70M renovation

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
OKLAHOMA CITY — The majority of the staff of the state Corporation Commission has moved to other locations in preparation for a massive renovation of the agency’s longtime home.
"Killing Albert Berch" book cover. PROVIDED

"Killing Albert Berch" book cover. PROVIDED

Book examines town’s lynch-mob murders

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
An Oklahoma City physician/novelist wrote a nonfiction book about the lynch-mob murder of his grandfather in southwestern Oklahoma 100 years ago. Killing Albert Berch, by Dr. Alan Berch Hollingsworth (Pelican Publishing Co.
The Chickasha Municipal Authority has scheduled an election for Aug. 8 on a proposal to increase a capital improvements sales tax from 0.75% to 1.25% to finance construction of a new and bigger water treatment plant. The city’s existing treatment plant, shown here, was built approximately 60 years ago. SHAE MORTIMER | CITY OF CHICKASHA

The Chickasha Municipal Authority has scheduled an election for Aug. 8 on a proposal to increase a capital improvements sales tax from 0.75% to 1.25% to finance construction of a new and bigger water treatment plant. The city’s existing treatment plant, shown here, was built approximately 60 years ago. SHAE MORTIMER | CITY OF CHICKASHA

Chickasha seeking engineering firm to design new water treatment plant

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
CHICKASHA — Engineering firms seeking to work on Chickasha’s proposed new water treatment plant have been given two extra weeks to submit a Statement of Qualifications.

Kiowa County voters to consider tax proposal

Eric Swanson
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Kiowa County voters will go to the polls June 13 to decide whether to approve a countywide sales tax, which would provide funding for a new jail. The county has proposed imposing a 1% sales tax, which would begin Oct. 1 of this year. The tax would expire either on Sept.
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