Elgin News

With the wind at their backs, officials from Horizon Wind Energy, owned by EDP Renewables, the world's fourth largest wind energy player, gathered on the Slick Hills terrain of southwestern Oklahoma yesterday with state and local dignitaries and project landowners to celebrate the start of operations at Blue Canyon V Wind Farm.

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Area educators will receive free admission and be eligible for door prizes Saturday at Three Rivers Museum, 220 Elgin.

The funeral for Spc. Dennis Pratt, who lost his life July 20 in combat in Afghanistan, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Frontier Chapel at Fort Sill with Chaplain Namen Bouma, officiating.

Sinnamon and Jim Pratt hold a photo Wednesday, July 22, 2009 of their son, Pfc. Dennis Pratt, at their home in Duncan, Okla.

An Oklahoman woman was air-lifted from the sight of a crash after her vechicle rolled over on I-44. Teresa Gambrel of Duncan was thrown nearly 30-feet from her car when she drove off the road.

LAWTON a ' Officials at BAE Systems say they are moving ahead with plans for an assembly plant at Elgin to upgrade the Paladin cannon.

Monday , June 1 Blitz Build - Habitat and Central Baptist Church are partnering for the annual "Blitz Build" where a single family house is built in 5 days, June 1 through June 5. The house will be built at 1216 SW Wisconsin.

Comanche County_A late spring in Southwest Oklahoma, but Mother Nature is making up for it.

A cannon manufacturing company is moving ahead with expansion plans in Elgin even after the Defense Department last month said it would not proceed with a new non-line-of-sight cannon supported by Oklahoma U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe.

WASHINGTON a ' The defense contractor that was working on a new U.S. Army cannon a ' now proposed for cancellation a ' will move ahead with plans to modify the current cannon at a park in Elgin, Sen.

Four Duncan women were involved in an accident at the intersection of Oklahoma Highways 65 and 7 around 5:28 p.m. Thursday when the vehicle in which they were riding was struck by another vehicle driven by a man from Elgin.

Marlow woman admitted to hospital after accident Edna Wilson, 86, of Marlow, was admitted to Comanche County Memorial Hospital Thursday evening after she made an improper left turn in front of another vehicle and the vehicles collided.

HILLDALE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1999, reunion, June 12 and 13. E-mail contact information to hhsclass99@live.com or call 869-6786. MUSKOGEE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1989 20-year class reunion, July 17 and 18.

The Rev. Matthew J. Brown, O.S.B., recently reached a milestone that few have accomplished.

Staff and wire reports Defense Secretary Robert Gates has recommended cutting a mobile cannon that was to be partially assembled in Elgin but Rep.

Since her appointment to the House Armed Services Committee at the beginning of this year, Congresswoman Mary Fallin has been touring military bases throughout Oklahoma.