Leaders tell Oklahoma County 'don't move' in search for new jail location
"Don't move" was the message city and state leaders took to Oklahoma County in their search for a new jail location.
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"Don't move" was the message city and state leaders took to Oklahoma County in their search for a new jail location.
The new home of the Oklahoma County Diversion Hub will be three times larger than its current facility. Construction is expected to start in 2024.
The new complex will be built along Littler Avenue between First Street and Main Street and comprise three structures.
A Cleveland County Commissioner declined to participate in what he called an “unlawful” meeting at the commissioner meeting Monday afternoon.
In the block just west of the current Coleman County Medical Center, dirt work got underway on Monday, January 18, for a major addition to the local hospital. A new patient wing and new emergency room are part of the new construction. The possibility of a loan to expand the local hospital has been in the works for a few years. On September 29, 2016 the hospital board voted unanimously to approve a Community Facilities Loan application through the USDA. In a hospital board meeting on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 the hospital board voted 6-0 to approve a Memorandum of Agreement between the USDA R...