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By News Director Jared Atha With the school year wrapping up, so does another fiscal year for Elk City Public Schools. Like most schools across the country, a poor economy caused by the on-going pandemic has reflected in financial numbers for Elk City, however Superintendent Rick Garrison says with the school system receiving money from the federal government’s stimulus package the school is in line to see a carryover into the 2021 – 2022 fiscal year. Garrison says if Oklahoma Senate Bill 2...

By News Director Jared Atha A bill that passed through the Oklahoma House of Representatives recently should help local brick-and-mortar public schools says District 57 Rep. Anthony Moore, R-Clinton. Moore says Senate Bill 229, or better known as the Redbud School Funding Act, proposes using medical marijuana taxes and the Common School Building Equalization Fund to provide annual per-student funding grants to eligible school districts and charter schools. He says the act, if signed by Gov. Kev...

By News Director Jared Atha An Elk City woman was arrested in Clinton recently after allegedly breaking into the Glancy Motel. According to court records 30-year-old Carol Elaine Mitchell is accused of breaking into the motel on April 22. While being arrested she would provide Clinton police with a false names on, claiming she was Carol Standingwater. The suspect was also found to be in possession of a forged check belonging to the motel’s owner – made out to another company in the amount o...

By News Director Jared Atha Elk City has encountered a good problem to have: attracting out of town visitors to visit the baseball / softball 5-plex fields in Ackley Park West. The problem? Parking. City Manager Tom Ivester says currently Kids Inc., who conducts league play at the fields, currently has about 140 teams combined for this season’s baseball and softball leagues, and says nearly every weekend, tournaments are being conducted at the venues – which creates issues with parking. Ive...

By News Director Jared Atha A Sweetwater man was arrested Tuesday after being charged with two felony counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child under the age of 16 in Beckham County District Court. A warrant was issued last week for the arrest of 66-year-old Lanny Dean Holland after a nearly year long investigation showed that he allegedly had touched his granddaughter inappropriately on multiple occasions while living in the home. The girl was 10-years-old during the time of the alleged acts....

By News Director Jared Atha After over a hundred years since his passing, a former Washita County Sheriff’s Deputy will have his name added to an Oklahoma memorial. In fact, the names of 11 law enforcement officers and one canine partner who died in the line of duty in Oklahoma will be dedicated on the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Memorial. The Oklahoma Law Enforcement Memorial is the oldest state memorial honoring fallen officers in the United States and was dedicated May 15, 1969. Among the 11...

By News Director Jared Atha Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU) with locations in Weatherford and Sayre has announced the establishment of the President Randy L. Beutler Endowment. The endowment will provide financial assistance in perpetuity to SWOSU students, faculty and programs in honor of outgoing SWOSU President Randy L. Beutler. Beutler plans to retire at the end of June. The SWOSU Foundation, Inc. Board of Trustees, along with a generous group of over 70 preliminary underwrit...

Elk City officials remind the public that a major thoroughfare in the city will be closed for a significant amount of time.

Agents with the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation along with the Beckham County Sheriff's Office served a search warrant and conducted a raid Tuesday morning...

The Clinton City Council is scheduled to meet in regular session Tuesday night in Clinton City Hall.