CRAIG'S BLOG
It is good to see the area working together under the Fort Smith Regional Alliance to make this area a better place to work and live.
A new manufacturing plant recently announced plans to open in Mulberry. Sure, Mulberry won’t have much effect on the citizens of LeFlore ... Read More
03
Feb2012
SHADY POINT--Ann “Cookie” Dunfee, 72, of Shady Point, passed away Feb. 2, 2012 in Fort Smith. She was born Sept. 30, 1939 in New York to Anthony Carl and Margaret Napoli and was a factory worker.
Services are Saturday at 10 a.m. at Evans Chapel of Memories in Poteau with Rev. ... Read More
03
Feb2012
POTEAU--Carl Albert State College’s Educational Talent Search (ETS) at Poteau hosted a Chad Cargill ACT Workshop on Wednesday.
Melana Matlock, Coordinator of the Poteau ETS, explained that students in grades 9–12 were invited to participate from 13 area schools. The program was free for participants of ETS and all others paid $30 ... Read More
03
Feb2012
FORT SMITH--Fort Smith Regional Alliance kicked off their 2012 General Board Meetings with a meeting in Mulberry. It followed Tuesday’s big announcement of plans for a new plant location in the city by American Vegetable Soybean and Edamame Inc.
The new edamame-processing facility will initially employ 40 to 60 workers. Meeting ... Read More
02
Feb2012
SPIRO--Three Spiro football players will continue playing ball in college.
Seniors K.J. Booze, Tyh Hawkins and Jordan Scott signed letters of intent Wednesday.
Booze signed with Dartmouth, an Ivy League school, while Hawkins and Scott both signed with Langston.
02
Feb2012
CRAIG'S BLOG
The following topics will be addressed in this blog:
Some blather about Groundhog Day;
Poteau’s Alyssa Kramer is hitting it big;
And…district basketball!
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02
Feb2012
(The weekly fishing report is furnished by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife)
Lake of the Arbuckles: January 29. Elevation 3 4/5 ft. below normal, water 47 and stained. Bass hitting jigs, jerkbaits, and Alabama rigs. Crappie and White bass hitting CC spoons along creek channel bends at 35-55 ft. Crappie slow ... Read More
02
Feb2012
POCOLA--Opal May Fout, 84, of Pocola (formerly of Shady Point) passed away Jan. 31, 2012 in Fort Smith. She was born May 17, 1927, in Wewoka to Cecil and Jewel (Nance) Lassiter and was a homemaker.
Services are ... Read More
01
Feb2012
POTEAU--Sheryl Lovelady, Director of the N.E.W. Leadership Institute, visited Carl Albert State College to speak with a group of CASC students about the opportunities available through the N.E.W. program.
Lovelady explained that the Institute, a part of the Carl Albert Center at the University of Oklahoma, is a highly selective program ... Read More
01
Feb2012
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