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The Ada Style

Nearly six decades ago, an Oklahoma journalist took exception to an east-coast writer’s snooty characterization of Ada as a “hick town.” Ada News columnist Ernest...

Welcome to the Circus

The Big Top hasn’t left town, but Hugo – long the winter home of circus shows – no longer calls itself “Circus City U.S.A.” Although...

The Draw of Lake Living

Located in the northeast corner of Delaware County and skirting the eastern shore of the massive Grand Lake o’ the Cherokees, Grove has a population...

A Crossroads of Culture

Economic developers who tout a community’s main assets as “location, location, location” surely had a place such as Shawnee in mind. Shawnee, a proverbial hop,...

All Sunny in Stroud

Tucked into the northeast corner of Lincoln County just a mile off the halfway point of the Turner Turnpike, Stroud holds a distinctive place on...

A Place to Breathe

From its earliest days as a rowdy, late 1800s Cherokee Outlet trading and cattle-shipping outpost, Woodward has grown to be a most busy place. Indeed,...

Blending Past
and Future

A 30-minute drive east on US 412 from Tulsa takes you to the town of Chouteau, where the sight of a horse and buggy might...

All Calm in Kenton

With a population too small to be listed on the official state map, and at least 40 miles from the next-largest town, Kenton – tucked...

A Race to the Finish Line

The 2022 political season began early in OKC, as voters will decide this month whether to give Mayor David Holt a second four-year term or...

Sublime in Sulphur

Once a destination for people who believed in the healing and restorative powers of the nearby sulphur springs – from which the town took its...