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City Planning Commission Denies Lot Split Request
May 23, 2023
The Bartlesville City Planning Commission met for their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday night at City Hall with only one item on the agenda. They started the meeting with approving the minutes from the previous meeting in April before moving to the only item on the agenda about a lot spilt pro ... read more »
White Rose Cemetery Will Host Memorial Day Ceremony
May 23, 2023
White Rose Cemetery will hold its annual Memorial Day Service at 9 a.m. on May 29. Retired Marine Corps Col. James Dau will be the master of ceremonies.
The featured speaker will be retired Navy 1st Class Petty Officer Sharon Reese-McGlory. Boy Scout Troop No. 6 will post and retire the color ... read more »
Osage Co. Commissioners Approve Juvenile Housing Deal With Creek Co. Sheriff's Office
May 23, 2023
The Osage County Commissioners approved earlier this week to sign a contract with Creek County Sheriff’s Office to house juveniles for a daily rate of $85 a day. The commissioners then approved and signed a detention transportation claim from April for $276.77.
The commissioners w ... read more »
Bartlesville City-owned Pools to Remain Closed
May 23, 2023
Bartlesville's city-owned Frontier and Sooner swimming pools and all city-owned splash pads remain closed due to drought conditions and declining overall water supply.
According to City Beat, Stage 4 of the Water Shortage Ordinance bans all outdoor water use and requires that c ... read more »
BRTA to Meet Wednesday Afternoon
May 23, 2023
The Bartlesville Redevelopment Trust Authority will meet at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon to take care of some bookkeeping items and one grant with a downtown building owner.
According to the meeting's agenda, the BRTA is expected to take action on closing out all accounts rela ... read more »
BDA to Discuss Selling Siemens Building
May 23, 2023
The Bartlesville Development Authority Board of Trustees will meet at 8 a.m. Wednesday to potentially take action to sell the former Siemens facility near the airport to a local company.
According to an agenda, Bartlesville start-up company Westwin Elements is looking to purchase the fo ... read more »
OHP, Agencies Team Up to ENDUI
May 23, 2023
With the Memorial Day holiday weekend approaching, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol is teaming up with local agencies to remind citizens to celebrate the long weekend responsibly.
According to the OHP, there were a total of 530 crashes throughout the state of Oklahoma during Memorial Day weekend 2 ... read more »
Dora Patzkowski for CN District 12 on COMMUNITY CONNECTION
May 23, 2023
The 2023 Cherokee Nation elections will be held on June 3, 2023, with a runoff on July 8 if necessary. One of the candidates for Cherokee Nation District 12, incumbent Dora Smith Patzkowski, was our guest in COMMUNITY CONNECTION on Tuesday.
Dora has served as Cherokee Nation Tribal ... read more »
Arvest Foundation Donates $10,000 to Tri County Tech
May 23, 2023
The Arvest Foundation announced Tuesday a $10,000 contribution to Tri County Tech Foundation, whose purpose is to ensure no student is denied an education due to the lack of funds.
The donation from the Arvest Foundation will be used to support an emergency assistance program to provide aid t ... read more »
BSA Cherokee Council Golf Tournament Set for June 2nd
May 23, 2023
The Annual BSA Cherokee Council Golf Tournament is set for Friday, June 2, 2023 from 11:30am to 5:00pm at Adams Municipal Golf Course in Bartlesville.
Appearing on COMMUNITY CONNECTION, Council Executive Director Phillip Wright said the tournament is a four-person scramb ... read more »
Bartlesville Man Charged with Two Counts of Obscene/Threatening or Harassing Phone Calls, Stalking and Act of Violence
May 22, 2023
A Bartlesville man was seen in Washington County Court on Monday on two separate cases involving the same charges. Danny Lowe is charged with separate counts of obscene, threatening, or harassing telephone calls in both cases. He was also charged with one count of an act of violence and one count ... read more »
Bartlesville Woman Arrested for Child Endangerment and Resisting Arrest
May 22, 2023
A Bartlesville woman was arrested over the weekend on the charges of child endangerment and resisting arrest. The BPD located the vehicle that had been described sitting in the Taco Bell parking lot which belonged to a Natosha Coker. Coker was in the vehicle and allegedly had slurred speech and a ... read more »
Osage Commissioners Looking for More Effective Ways to Communicate Bids and Notices
May 22, 2023
The Osage County Commissioners met in their weekly meeting Monday morning and spent a lot of the meeting discussing ways to make advertising bids and public notices more effective.
According to a statute, the county must have bids and notices published in at least one newspaper. The com ... read more »
Grocery Giveaway in Pawhuska, Bartlesville on May 23
May 22, 2023
If you or someone you know needs free food City Church is doing its grocery giveaway on May 23 in Pawhuska and Bartlesville. There is a one bag per family limit is in place.
The Bartlesville location is at the church at 4222 Rice Creek Road. Pawhuska location is at Tri County ... read more »
'Killers of the Flower Moon' Premieres in France
May 22, 2023
"Killers of the Flower Moon," Martin Scorsese's epic film about the Osage Nation Murders in the 1920s over headrights, made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Saturday.
The movie received a nine-minute standing ovation after the premiere to mu ... read more »