Braggs News

FIREWORKS DISPLAY, 8:45 p.m. Friday, Timothy Baptist Church, 5530 W. Okmulgee Ave.

Calling a Muskogee County Sheriff's dispatcher no longer means you call the jail and wait for a possible connection.

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At its regular meeting Tuesday, the Muskogee City Council's Works and Finance Committees approved: * An ordinance rezoning the property on the south side of Chandler Road between Eastpointe Road and the Muskogee Turnpike from Single-Family Residential to General Commercial.

Soroptimist International of Muskogee will host the annual Recruitment and Retention Reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Three Rivers Museum, 220 Elgin St.

A bald eagle, an owl and a hawk, all residents of Three Forks Nature Center, soon will have freedom more like what they had in the wild, said Park Manager Tony Presley.

Muskogee County Exceptional Children's Service continues the search for children who are in need of special education.

Dice Dawson of Muskogee accompanied his sister, M'liss Dawson Jenkins, to Chicago to move her daughter, Amy, who competed for "The Next Top Model," to New York City.

Because of the response to the call for names of veterans from Braggs, the date for dedication of a veterans memorial monument has been delayed, said Pat Isbell, of the Braggs History Project.

Muskogee Police are investigating a two-car accident that sent one car crashing through the window of the Kids & More Consignment Shop and a woman to Muskogee Regional Medical Center.

Cody Hayes and Sarah Smithson have been named valedictorian and salutatorian at Warner High School.

The Muskogee County Exceptional Children's Service continues the search for children who are in need of special education.

Front row: CLA Coordinator, Chancey Hanson; Houston Nix, Ruth Nelson, Amy Reinhart, Jed Gleghorn, Troy Shelby, DVM, Adam McClung and Dallas Moore, OCA Staff.

Public art has proven itself to be one of the best economic investments a community can make.

Carl and Jennifer Brashear of Tahlequah announce the birth of their first child, Benjamin Wayne, on Sunday, March 15, 2009.

Provisional ballots handed to five voters in Tuesday's Webbers Falls municipal election may decide the outcome of the election, said Ellen Thames, assistant secretary of the Muskogee County Election Board.

Voters in five county towns will go to the polls Tuesday to decide a number of municipal races.

PRESCHOOL SCREENING FOR CHILDREN ages 3 to 5, 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. today, Oktaha Elementary School.

Approximately 250 volunteers are putting on their gloves to team up in the fight against litter in Braggs this spring.

A A A' An Army officer who shot and killed an Iraqi detainee during an interrogation was convicted of murder Friday night by a military jury.