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City seeking aquatics staff

News Staff
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
  Lawton’s Parks and Recreation Department is seeking aquatics staff for the summer. Positions available include both lifeguards and attendants for the municipal pool, splash pads and wading pools.

Lawton Area Transit System to mark 20th anniversary

News Staff
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
LAWTON – Lawton Area Transit System will celebrate its 20th anniversary and Try Transit Week 2022 the last week of April.   The celebration will begin April 25 with LATS’ “Moving and Grooving’’ event, city officials said in a news release.
Great Plains Technology Center and GPTC Foundation board members are shown Tuesday at the school. From the left: Foundation President Denise Floyd; Foundation Director/Deputy Superintendent Karen Bailey; Dr. George Bridges, Foundation board member; Arthur Patrick, Board of Education member; Clarence Fortney, GPTC superintendent; and Kent Jester, Foundation board member. Seated is Chuck Wade, Foundation chairman emeritus. Great Plains Technology Center photo

Great Plains Technology Center and GPTC Foundation board members are shown Tuesday at the school. From the left: Foundation President Denise Floyd; Foundation Director/Deputy Superintendent Karen Bailey; Dr. George Bridges, Foundation board member; Arthur Patrick, Board of Education member; Clarence Fortney, GPTC superintendent; and Kent Jester, Foundation board member. Seated is Chuck Wade, Foundation chairman emeritus. Great Plains Technology Center photo

Great Plains Tech honors Chuck Wade

News Staff
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
From staff reports   Chuck Wade, chairman of Great Plains Technology Center’s Foundation Board, was honored March 29 with a reception at the technology center.
Property south of Fort Gibson that was heavily damaged by floodwaters in May 2019. Photo courtesy Oklahoma Conservation Commission

Property south of Fort Gibson that was heavily damaged by floodwaters in May 2019. Photo courtesy Oklahoma Conservation Commission

State sells $17.6M in bonds to rehab dams

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY – The state Capitol Improvement Authority is selling $17,665,000 in revenue bonds to help finance repairs and renovations to several high-hazard upstream flood control dams in Oklahoma.
Vehicles depart from McMahon Auditorium on Tuesday after a memorial service for firefighter April Partridge of Apache. LEDGER PHOTO/CURTIS AWBREY

Vehicles depart from McMahon Auditorium on Tuesday after a memorial service for firefighter April Partridge of Apache. LEDGER PHOTO/CURTIS AWBREY

Memorial service held for fallen firefighter

Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
LAWTON – Dozens of Comanche County firefighters filed into McMahon Auditorium Tuesday morning to honor a fallen colleague. A memorial service, with fire department honors, was held for April L.

Area lawmakers tapped for Senate panel

Tim Farley
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY – Two southwest Oklahoma lawmakers have been tapped as the chairman and vice chair of the Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee. Sen. John Michael Montgomery, R-Lawton, will serve as chairman and Sen. Jessica Garvin, R-Duncan, will hold the vice chair position.
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