With Homecoming just around the corner, local organizers are calling on residents to pitch in and help spruce up downtown ...

Once we start, there’s no going back. Anything can happen. And most likely anything will.”With those words, The Conjuring: ...

The Blackwell Police Department will celebrate the retirement of Lieutenant Tyrone “Ty” Owens with a come-and-go reception on Thursday, Sept.

Fall is a season of change. The leaves turn, the air sharpens, and with each cool morning comes the promise of something new.

The Blackwell City Council met for its regular session last Thursday night, with the spotlight fixed on a single utility pole off Highway 11—one more Chikaskia River flood away, some fear, from ...

As we grieve this heartbreaking loss, we do so with the assurance of faith: Charlie Kirk is present with the Lord. The conservative movement ...

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“Martin hates boats. Martin hates water. Martin… Martin sits in his car when we go on the ferry to the mainland. I guess it’s a childhood thing. There’s a clinical name for it, isn’t there?” “Drowning ...

The Blackwell-Tonkawa Municipal Airport’s Runway 17/35 has been widened and rehabilitated with a pavement overlay. The upgrades were necessary to improve safety, upgrade pavement conditions and meet ...

John Warren Henry was born August 18, 1942 to Virginia Colbert Green and Earl Claude Henry, in Ponca City, OK, the fourth of six children. He passed away August 24, 2025 after succumbing to the ...