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Eric Swanson | Southwest Ledger Farm Credit of Western Oklahoma officials Erral Myers, Kyle Dorton, Toby Denny, John Grunewald and Jake Ochsner are shown Dec. 15 in front of the cooperative’s Chattanooga field office. The cooperative hosted a holiday open house Dec. 15 at the Chattanooga office.

Eric Swanson | Southwest Ledger Farm Credit of Western Oklahoma officials Erral Myers, Kyle Dorton, Toby Denny, John Grunewald and Jake Ochsner are shown Dec. 15 in front of the cooperative’s Chattanooga field office. The cooperative hosted a holiday open house Dec. 15 at the Chattanooga office.

Farm Credit of Western Oklahoma hosts open house

News Staff
Friday, December 23, 2022
CHATTANOOGA — Earlier this year, the agricultural lender Farm Credit of Western Oklahoma opened a full-time branch office in Chattanooga for customers in Comanche, Cotton and Tillman counties.
Eric Swanson | Southwest Ledger From left, Lawton City Council members Mary Ann Hankins and Linda Chapman chat before the council’s Dec. 13 meeting. The council authorized city staff to extend School House Slough tenants’ leases for one year, giving staff time to find someone to take over the concession lease.

Eric Swanson | Southwest Ledger From left, Lawton City Council members Mary Ann Hankins and Linda Chapman chat before the council’s Dec. 13 meeting. The council authorized city staff to extend School House Slough tenants’ leases for one year, giving staff time to find someone to take over the concession lease.

City to offer one-year extension on School House Slough leases

News Staff
Friday, December 23, 2022
LAWTON – Lawton will offer School House Slough tenants a one-year extension on their leases, giving city officials more time to find someone to manage the concession area on the east shore of Lake Lawtonka. The Lawton City Council voted unanimously Dec.
Mark Potter | Southwest Ledger The former Oklaunion coal-fired power plant sits idle near Vernon, Texas, on October 15. The facility was retired in 2020 after 34 years of generating electricity. Two companies have announced plans to spend $4 billion to develop a ‘green’ hydrogen production facility on the North Texas site.

Mark Potter | Southwest Ledger The former Oklaunion coal-fired power plant sits idle near Vernon, Texas, on October 15. The facility was retired in 2020 after 34 years of generating electricity. Two companies have announced plans to spend $4 billion to develop a ‘green’ hydrogen production facility on the North Texas site.

$4B hydrogen production facility planned for idled Oklaunion site

News Staff
Friday, December 23, 2022
VERNON, Texas — Two corporations announced plans to invest approximately $4 billion to construct a “green” hydrogen production facility on the site of a decommissioned electric generating plant near here. The “mega-scale renewable-power-to-hydrogen project” will include approximately 1.

Stalled BNSF train blamed for death of man in Noble

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Friday, December 23, 2022
A train blocking a railroad crossing in Noble was blamed for a death that triggered a lawsuit against Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. Linda Byrd filed a lawsuit in Cleveland County District Court on Oct. 27, 2021, accusing BNSF of negligence in the death of her husband 11 months earlier.
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