Locust Grove News

Darrell Yoder, commissioner for Mayes County District 2, is looking for a new engineering firm.

Community Action Resource & Development is seeing the closure of two Mayes County senior nutrition sites.

A state agency that helped investigate an outbreak of illness among Locust Grove restaurant customers stemming from the bacteria E. coli says in a new report that private-well users in the vicinity of the town shouldn't drink the water from those wells.

Locust Grove senior Steven Clifton already has his future mapped out. After attending the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Cadet Lawman Academy this summer, Clifton plans to become an Oklahoma Highway Patrol Officer after graduating from college.

Things may be looking up for the geothermal heating and air system at Mayes County Courthouse.

A date for the Angel Tree Poker Run has been set and organizers are gearing up for the event that will benefit the Locust Grove First United Methodist Church Angel Tree Project.

Condemnation hearings, adding a final member to the flood plain board and changing the date of the regular monthly meeting were all items on the Town of Locust Grove meeting, Monday, Oct.

The Fort Gibson Board of Trustees renewed Town Administrator Kathryn Carson's contract and gave her a 3 percent cost of living raise at its meeting Oct.

A Pryor man and a Mayes County deputy were injured after the vehicles they were driving collided as the deputy attempted to pass the other driver.

A Pryor industrial plant is loaning a water filtration system to Locust Grove. Norit Americas Inc.

A soulful, classy singer and songwriter, Mica Roberts was born on a farm near the small town of Locust Grove, OK, which is situated some 50 miles east of Tulsa.

Locust Grove Police Officers arrested a man Wednesday, Sept. 30, after finding ingredients of a meth lab in his vehicle.

Dr. Carolynne Cash is taking her practice on the road and "bringing the vet to your pet." The Locust Grove veterinarian recently purchased a mobile veterinary clinic and is traveling to communities without access as a Mobile Pet Vet.

Attendance at Locust Grove High School is down after several students have become sick with flu like symptoms.

A lawsuit has been filed against a Locust Grove restaurant seeking more than $3 million on behalf of 14 people sickened by an August 2008 outbreak of E. coli.

Victims of an August, 2008 E. coli outbreak at a Locust Grove restaurant last year have joined together to file suit against the Country Cottage restaurant.

Locust Grove citizens brought comments and complaints to the town board of trustees last week.

Streets in Locust Grove are one step closer to repair and striping. The Locust Grove Board of Trustees met Tuesday, Sept.

The Town of Locust Grove held a special meeting Friday, Sept. 4, to discuss several odds and ends in both the Public Works Authority and Town meetings.

Locust Grove Middle School will host an HIV/AIDS prevention program Oct. 12 for all eighth grade students.