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Broken Arrow City Council At a meeting repeatedly disrupted by anti-mask hecklers, the Broken Arrow City Council voted 3-2 Tuesday evening to adopt a non-binding resolution simply encouraging residents to wear masks in public to slow the spread of COVID-19. Mayor Craig Thurmond, long opposed to a mandatory mask ordinance as well as to a similar non-binding resolution brought previously, cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the measure. "The reason I put it on the agenda is this is not the same...

Livestream / Broken Arrow City Council The city of Broken Arrow is declining to condemn a video presentation given during public comment at their Tuesday council meeting which linked the wearing of masks to prevent COVID-19 with the Holocaust.  Resident Lori Graceys presentation included images of Holocaust victim Anne Frank and black-and-white photographs of the corpses of Nazi concentration camp victims, among others. Gracey equated the wearing of a face mask to the forced wearing of yello...

An audio version of this story Broken Arrow City Councilor Johnnie Parks (left), Vice Mayor Scott Eudey, City Manager Michael Spurgeon, Mayor Craig Thurmond and Councilor Debra Wimpee participate in a council meeting Tuesday night at the Stoney Creek Hotel and Conference Center. The meeting was held there to allow for greater social distancing. The Broken Arrow City Council had a mask mandate on its agenda for the first time Tuesday night, but it didn’t even come up for a vote. Over the cours...

Broken Arrow City Council It was a familiar scene at Tuesdays Broken Arrow City Council meeting: Councilor Johnnie Parks expressed interest in exploring a mask mandate to address rising rates of COVID-19, but the suggestion did not garner enthusiasm from the majority of either his colleagues or public commenters.  "Weve looked at this for several months now and our rates keep increasing. I think that we need to have it on the next city council meeting as a decision item," Parks said of eithe...