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Crews working on City Hall renovation

News Staff
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Crews are breaking ground outside Lawton City Hall, marking the beginning of the completion of the City Hall renovation. The construction company CMS Willowbrook Inc.

Creating the Ideal Work Environment

News Staff
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
If I was to ask who is responsible for the environment in the office, many would respond each employee. As true as it is, each person positively or negatively contributes to the environment, but the ultimate factor, the one singular force who sets the overall work environment is the leader.
A soil compactor compresses what soon will be a widened section of State Highway 36 on the south side of a new bridge spanning Deep Red Creek north of Grandfield. Three bridges in that vicinity which were built in the 1930s have been replaced. The highway approaching each end of the three crossings is being widened to add shoulders and guard rails, and new asphalt paving will be installed. Ledger photo by David B. Hale

A soil compactor compresses what soon will be a widened section of State Highway 36 on the south side of a new bridge spanning Deep Red Creek north of Grandfield. Three bridges in that vicinity which were built in the 1930s have been replaced. The highway approaching each end of the three crossings is being widened to add shoulders and guard rails, and new asphalt paving will be installed. Ledger photo by David B. Hale

Bridge work north of Grandfield nearing completion, ODOT says

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY – A project to replace three bridges built more than 80 years ago on State Highway 36 north of Grandfield is expected to be completed by the end of October. Two of the structures were built in 1938 and the other in 1939, Oklahoma Department of Transportation records show.
A prairie dog perches on its burrow Sept. 14 in Elmer Thomas Park. The city of Lawton will launch a campaign designed to cull, but not eradicate, the prairie dog population in mid-October. Eric Swanson/Staff photo

A prairie dog perches on its burrow Sept. 14 in Elmer Thomas Park. The city of Lawton will launch a campaign designed to cull, but not eradicate, the prairie dog population in mid-October. Eric Swanson/Staff photo

City taking steps to reduce prairie dog population

Eric Swanson
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
LAWTON – Lawton will launch a campaign this fall to reduce, but not eliminate, the city’s population of black-tailed prairie dogs.

U.S. population growing older

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
WASHINGTON – The U.S. population is getting grayer. The number of Americans 65 and older is increasing because of the combination of an aging “baby boom” generation and a declining death rate for older people, an analysis of government data indicates.
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