Lawton voters to weigh two sales tax proposals
Comanche County and City of Lawton residents will decide April 3 on seven year sales tax measures aimed at economic development streets waterlines and public safety funding. County plan would raise about 1.3 million annually with allocations to the industrial development authority fairgrounds sheriff fire departments and EMS projects. City plan targets 28.125 million over seven years for streets sewers waterline maintenance and related capital work.
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City of
Lawton
Central District
Ron Kirby
Larry Mitchell
Lawton City
Flower Mound Road
Hunter Road
Mitchell
Randy Bass
Oklahoma Opportunity Fund
Rainy week foreseen with showers and storms across counties
The National Weather Service expects mild days with highs 63 to 76 today and persistent chances of rain. By Wednesday highs rise to 74 to 83 under mostly cloudy skies with a rain chance, while Thursday and Friday bring more showers and thunderstorms before slight relief by late Friday. Firefighters report 0.25 inch at Station 5 in west Lawton. Hobart Altus and others show varying rainfall totals around a third to a half inch. Local officials discuss county funding for sheriff and volunteer fire departments, courthouse repairs, and street and equipment upgrades including a million dollar ladder truck and other city projects.
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National Weather Service
Station 5
West Lawton
Hobart
Altus
Ringling
Magnum
Medicine Park
Apache
Chickasha
Fort Cobb
Ninnekah
Waurika
Tipton
Kirby
Sheriff’s Department
Mitchell
Palm Saturday in the Wichitas Easter Pageant Plan
Palm Saturday in the Wichitas gathers visitors for a day of nature education and Easter pageant events at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and Holy City. Coordinators Donna Lindsey and church groups coordinate music, services, edible foods, Dutch oven cooking, hikes, an eggs hunt with more than 3000 eggs, and the 6 PM pageant.
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Wichita Mountains
Holy City
Wichitas
Donna Lindsey
Lindsey
Environmental Education Center
Nick Plata
Environmental Education Division
Katherine Hunt
Holy City Chapel
Cache
Cache First United Methodist Church
Thief robs local home. two TVs and DVD players taken
Mamie Belton reports a burglary at 2602 SW Drive between 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 a.m. Sunday. The thief fled with two televisions, two DVD players, and other items, totaling over 2900 dollars. A separate incident saw Officer Chuck Lyman chase a shoplifting suspect on 6th Street, subdue her after she resisted.
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Mamie Belton
Michael Spencer
Belton
Chuck Lyman
6Th Street
Lyman
Northeast Bell and Arlington shut for drainage work Thursday
Northeast Bell and Northeast Arlington roads will close Thursday for drainage improvement near 118 NE Bell. The road will be blocked from 9 a.m. Thursday to 9 a.m. April 2 with limited access for residents. SWAT members host a breakfast Friday and will share tobacco industry info at local high schools this week. Contact Sandy Foster at Comanche County Memorial Hospital for details.
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Northeast Bell
Northeast Arlington
Bell
SWAT
Sandy Foster
Comanche County Memorial Hospital
Kick Butts Day events and bankruptcy class offered locally
The Southwest Tobacco Free Oklahoma Coalition and Comanche County Memorial Hospital join thousands in Kick Butts Day with Dave Goerlitz speaking at Central Middle School and Ridgecrest Elementary School to deter youth smoking. Separately an OSU Extension program offers personal financial management bankruptcy discharge guidance at 1:30 p.m. with pre registration required by Wednesday and fees of 30 dollars per person or 50 dollars per couple.
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Southwest Tobacco Free Oklahoma Coalition
Comanche County Memorial Hospital
Dave Goerlitz
Winston Man
Lawton
Winston Cigarettes
Goerlitz
Central Middle School
Ridgecrest
Comanche County
OSU Cooperative Extension Office
Swc Ave
Cooperative Extension
Maretta Toler
Toler
OSU
County terminates grant writer after executive session
After a 10 minute executive session commissioners unanimously voted to terminate June Raine, the county grant writer, effective May 31. The board declined to explain the reason. Chair Gail Turner noted no replacement plan is yet decided and no comment was provided.
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June Raine
Gail Turner
Comanche County Detention Center
State Health Department
Dale Cagle
State Department of Corrections
Clint Wagstaff
Lawton-Comanche County
Wagstaff
Turner
Derrell Morgan
Lawton
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