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Caption: From the left, Lawton City Manager Michael Cleghorn listens to a discussion while Lawton Youth Sports Authority member Hossein Moini takes notes during Thursday’s Youth Sports Authority meeting at City Hall. The authority approved an agreement with the city that will help the authority bridge the gap between now and the end of fiscal year 2021-22. Eric Swanson/Staff photo

Caption: From the left, Lawton City Manager Michael Cleghorn listens to a discussion while Lawton Youth Sports Authority member Hossein Moini takes notes during Thursday’s Youth Sports Authority meeting at City Hall. The authority approved an agreement with the city that will help the authority bridge the gap between now and the end of fiscal year 2021-22. Eric Swanson/Staff photo

Youth Sports Authority OKs limited-service agreement with city

Eric Swanson
Friday, April 22, 2022
LAWTON – A limited-service agreement between the city of Lawton and the Lawton Youth Sports Authority will help the authority begin the transition to managing the city’s youth sports programs.
Caption: From the left, Acting City Attorney Tim Wilson and Lawton City Councilman Allan Hampton listen to a discussion during the council’s April 12 meeting. The council sent a proposed ordinance, which would have authorized the city manager or his designee to set operating hours for recreational facilities, back to the city attorney for revision.

Caption: From the left, Acting City Attorney Tim Wilson and Lawton City Councilman Allan Hampton listen to a discussion during the council’s April 12 meeting. The council sent a proposed ordinance, which would have authorized the city manager or his designee to set operating hours for recreational facilities, back to the city attorney for revision.

Lawton council tables proposed ordinance

Eric Swanson
Friday, April 22, 2022
LAWTON – An ordinance that would have allowed Lawton’s city manager or his designee, instead of the Parks and Recreation Commission, to set operating hours for recreation facilities is headed back to the city attorney for revision.

ONG files for $19.66M rate hike

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Friday, April 22, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. has a rate hike application pending with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. The utility filed its application on March 15 – one day before the Oklahoma Development Finance Authority asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court to authorize the issuance of up to $1.

EV preference grows, study shows

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Friday, April 22, 2022
A new study by Deloitte indicates approximately one-fourth of U.S. car buyers expect their next vehicle to be total electric power or a hybrid electric. The Edison Electric Institute reports more than a million EVs are on U.S. streets and highways today.
The Oklahoma state Capitol in Oklahoma City

The Oklahoma state Capitol in Oklahoma City

The Okla. Legislature and book banning

M. Scott Carter - Capitol Bureau Chief
Friday, April 22, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY – American libraries – including those in Oklahoma – have found themselves at the center of a culture war as some groups led a “historic effort to ban and challenge materials that address racism, gender, politics and sexual identity,” a newly released report from the American Library...

License of Altus court reporter revoked

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Friday, April 22, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY – The state Supreme Court has upheld revocation of the professional license of a shorthand reporter in southwest Oklahoma for “gross incompetence and gross or habitual neglect of duty” in transcripts of at least 15 felony cases.
McCurtain County Commissioners Jimmy Westbrook, Chris White and Mark Jennings vote to table a petition to hold a public vote on the incorporation of the small town of Hochatown. Residents of the town have, for several years, attempted to incorporate. Monday’s vote delays that effort. Ledger photo by Rip Stell

McCurtain County Commissioners Jimmy Westbrook, Chris White and Mark Jennings vote to table a petition to hold a public vote on the incorporation of the small town of Hochatown. Residents of the town have, for several years, attempted to incorporate. Monday’s vote delays that effort. Ledger photo by Rip Stell

Commissioners delay action on Hochatown vote; group considering legal action

News Staff
Friday, April 22, 2022
HOCHATOWN – The McCurtain County Board of Commissioners on Monday shot down an effort by a group of residents in Hochatown to hold a public vote to incorporate the town. Commission members voted unanimously to table action on a petition calling for an incorporation vote.
The Silent Season of a Hero

The Silent Season of a Hero

Wordsmith’s attention to detail noteworthy

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Most sports stories are about games and the athletes who compete in them –­ especially the winners – or revelations about their illegal or immoral shenanigans. Throughout his career, though, Gaylord “Gay” Talese trained his sights on the noncelebrity.
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