COLTON JONES
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COLTON JONES of Ponca City this week signed a letter of intent to play baseball at Southwestern College, Winfield, Kan. With him at the signing were family, friends and coaches.
May 2024
Dear Annie
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Dear Annie: When the time comes -- hopefully I pass before my loving husband and faithful partner of nearly 25 years, but if not -- I could use a few words of advice as to how to deal with my estranged step-daughter, her bitter mother (both vultures) and her young children who I’ve never met due to an unresolved falling out many years ago.
Tommy Allen Green
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Tommy Allen Green, 78, of Ponca City, OK, left this life on May 12, 2024, surrounded by his family to go to that very special place Jesus said He had prepared for Tommy as a born-again believer in Christ. A Celebration of Life Ceremony will be held at 2:00 PM, Friday, May 24, 2024, at Albright United Methodist Church located at 128 S. Palm, in Ponca City. Arrangements are under the direction of Trout Funeral Home & Crematory, 505 W. Grand Ave., Ponca City, OK, 74601.
Kaw City Annual Reunion to be held on May 26
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The public is invited to attend Kaw City’s Annual Reunion on Sunday, May 26 from 11am-5pm. The museum, located at 910 Washunga Drive in Kaw City, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its displays include a vast selection of vintage artifacts, maps, books, furniture, name bricks and photographs, many dating back to the early 1800s. You don’t have to be from Kaw City to appreciate the relics that paint a picture of what life was like in Oklahoma’s pioneer days. Take full advantage of this historical treasure that sits in your own back yard. Admission is free.
Offense rolls, Sooners open series with two wins over Cincy
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May 16—Oklahoma started the second game of its doubleheader the same way it ended the first game as it extended its winning streak to eight. On the final weekend of the regular season, the Sooners were tied, 2-2, after five innings in the opener on the road against Cincinnati.
Happenings and Announcements
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CITY ADMINISTRATION NEWS UPCOMING MEETINGS MONDAY, MAY 20 Board of Commissioners Work Session City Hall, Commission Chamber, 516 E. Grand Avenue, 2:00 p.m.
Cardinals return home from roller-coaster road trip to prove whether they’re going somewhere
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May 16—ANAHEIM, Calif. — For a seven-game trip that took them from Dairyland to Disneyland, the Cardinals sure went some places, from the lowest point of the season thus far in Milwaukee to new heights for the lineup at Angel Stadium.
Phillies make ninth-inning comeback, but fall in extras to the New York Mets
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May 16—The Phillies showed some resiliency, but fell to the New York Mets in an 11-inning 6-5 loss on Thursday night. They split this twogame homestand with New York, and now are 31-14 on the season.
The World’s -- and the Pacific Rim’s Disastrous Population Implosion
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Will the world be better off with fewer people? For years that has been a hypothetical question posed to suggest an affirmative answer. Fewer people, it was claimed, would mean less depredation of natural resources, less urban overcrowding, more room for other species to stretch their (actual or metaphorical) legs. Mankind was a parasite, a blight, and overpopulation a disease. Fewer people would mean a better Earth.
Flirting With Disaster
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In December 2022, Donald Trump said something that, in a healthy political culture, would have spelled his doom. He wrote, “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”