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McAlester city councilors offered City Manager Pete Stasiak a new contract — and Stasiak intends to sign the document once he receives it.

JAMES BEATY | Staff photo City officials are working toward reopening City Hall on April 19, with plans for temperature checks in the lobby for those wanting to enter the main building. McAlester Mayor John Browne Former McAlester Mayor Steve Harrison When members of the city of McAlester Charter Committee meet next week, an unintended consequence of a previous change to the City Charter is expected to come up for discussion. Charter Committee members, appointed by McAlester Mayor John Brown...

Cardiol Therapeutics Inc.: Cardiol Therapeutics Announces Filing of 2020 Year-End Financial Statements and MD&A Cardiol Therapeutics Inc. ( a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing innovative anti-inflammatory therapies for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, today filed its audited Financial Statements and Managements Discussion and Analysis for the year ended December 31, 2020. Both are available under the Companys profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on the Companys...

By James Beaty | Managing editor Feb 17, 2021 Feb 17, 2021 McAlester city councilors held a special meeting Wednesday night to pass a proclamation declaring a state of emergency in the city of McAlester — which also gave the mayor an opportunity to ask citizens to conserve water while city crews searched for a water line break. The meeting to pass the emergency declaration had been scheduled prior to the water line break earlier Wednesday. After the council passed the emergency...

Close JAMES BEATY | Staff photoMcAlester Police Chief Kevin Hearod addresses city councilors on the need for two new, unused outfitted 2021 Dodge Chargers, which city councilors unanimously approved. topical featured By James Beaty Managing Editor Jan 29, 2021 Jan 29, 2021 JAMES BEATY | Staff photoMcAlester Police Chief Kevin Hearod addresses city councilors on the need for two new, unused outfitted 2021 Dodge Chargers, which city councilors unanimously ...

McAlester city councilors took no action on the city’s mask mandate during their regular Tuesday night meeting, which means it remains in effect as is.

Sam Whiting January 21, 2021Updated: January 24, 2021, 11:53 am Gertrud Parker at the 2006 Museum of Craft and Folk Art gala in San Francisco. Photo: Parker family The San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum opened in 1982 in a small Richmond District home owned by its founder Gertrud Parker — a fiber artist with a belief that ceramics and wood carvings were as legitimate a form as fine art painting. Parker had no fear of failure, or anything else. As a teenager, she’d narrowly...

A smaller than usual group of city councilors agreed to pursue CARES Act funding that could benefit low-to-moderate income McAlester residents.

A Columbia County family has been honored for having two locations recognized as part of the 2020 Arkansas Century Farm program. The program, sponsored by the Arkansas Department of Agriculture, recognizes Arkansas farms of 10 acres or more owned by the same family for at least 100 years. Josh and Melissa Smith of Waldo received signs during a ceremony in Little Rock noting the historic nature of the S4 Cattle Company, 2230 Columbia 53 in Columbia County, and the Walthall Family Tree Farm in Ou...