Mangum News

The Western Oklahoma Writers announced today that there were no entrants and thereby no winners in the Love-Joy-Pain Essay and Poetry Contest .A The contest was open to all ages and was widely promulgated over the past month.A The 1 May 2012 deadline passed without a single entry submitted.

The Shortgrass Institute will be offering two art classes in December, Prismacolor Drawing for Teens with Synott Matthews and Monotype Printmaking for Adults with Bobby Avila.

After very tough drought conditions late into 2011, Terral Tatum of Grandfield this week looks through his wheat.

Rubye Morris-Wooldridge, 92, passed away Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at Jackson County Memorial Hospital.

John Buford Matthews, Jr., 69, of Mangum, died at his home Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005.