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The sheriff’s office in Wheeler County contacted TCEQ, raising concerns about shipments of palletized hand sanitizer that were received and stored at this unimproved site in Shamrock, Texas. (Photo provided)

The sheriff’s office in Wheeler County contacted TCEQ, raising concerns about shipments of palletized hand sanitizer that were received and stored at this unimproved site in Shamrock, Texas. (Photo provided)

Texas challenges company’s sanitizer disposal plan

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
SHAMROCK, Texas — A company founded in Wyoming less than a year ago won a six-figure contract to dispose of more than 7,000 pallets of “inventory” that included hand sanitizer containing a high concentration of ethyl alcohol and some contaminated with methanol.
A raging fire erupted around 1 p.m. Oct. 18 at a warehouse located in Ninnekah, just south of U.S. Highway 81 and State Highway 19; an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 pallets of ethanol-laced hand sanitizer were stored at the site formerly occupied by H&B Machine & Manufacturing. Boiling smoke was visible from Interstate 44. (Ledger photo by Steve Booker)

A raging fire erupted around 1 p.m. Oct. 18 at a warehouse located in Ninnekah, just south of U.S. Highway 81 and State Highway 19; an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 pallets of ethanol-laced hand sanitizer were stored at the site formerly occupied by H&B Machine & Manufacturing. Boiling smoke was visible from Interstate 44. (Ledger photo by Steve Booker)

3 hand sanitizer storage sites, 3 fires in less than 3 months

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
NINNEKAH — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and the State Fire Marshal’s Office are investigating three fires in two and a half months at all three sites in Grady County where Bordwine Development stored flammable hand sanitizer, the Southwest Ledger was told.
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‘Road rage’ costly, dangerous, even deadly

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY – Responding to a recent Forbes story that ranked Oklahoma as having the fourth-highest incidents of road rage in the U.S., State Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready said the findings reflect a disturbing trend. “We are hearing more and more” about instances of road rage, he said.
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Kentucky bourbon inventory sets record

News Staff
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The number of barrels of bourbon in the Bluegrass State reached a record number this year, the Kentucky Distillers Association reported. In January, a record 11.
From the left, Lawton City Councilman Allan Hampton, Councilwoman Onreka Johnson and Mayor Stan Booker are shown with an exhibit commemorating Tulsa’s Greenwood District. Photo courtesy City of Lawton

From the left, Lawton City Councilman Allan Hampton, Councilwoman Onreka Johnson and Mayor Stan Booker are shown with an exhibit commemorating Tulsa’s Greenwood District. Photo courtesy City of Lawton

Tulsa Greenwood exhibit set up in Lawton City Hall

News Staff
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
A new exhibit commemorating Tulsa’s Greenwood District has just been moved to Lawton City Hall. Lawton City Council members were on site Tuesday before the council meeting to see the display and learn more about what was popularly known as America’s “Black Wall Street.
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