Minco News

Minco residents are still waiting to see whether the owners of the recently fire-ravaged William's Discount Food Store will rebuild in their town.

Minco could soon be without a grocery store -- and nearly 33 percent of the town's sales tax could vanish with it.

A paramedic looks after Marvin Spears, whose car collided into the back of a pick-up and sparked a three-automobile accident Friday at Choctaw and 4th Street.

The second installment payment of $26,813 for the three-year agreement on the Reverse 911 system has come due.

The second installment payment of $26,813 for the three-year agreement on the Reverse 911 system has come due.

A weekend fire destroyed Williams Discount Foods of Minco. Fire investigators are looking at the probability that the fire was electrical in nature.

Oklahoma pork producers, Top Farms of Minco, Okla., and The Maschhoffs of Hinton, Okla., provided the pork for a pulled pork lunch held on May 3 at the Minco Fire Department.

The India Shrine Center is having their annual Vidalia onion sale again this year.

Grady County voters went to the polls lastweek, electing trustees, council members, school board members and mayors.

At 5 p.m. on Thursday several county fire departments and the Grady County Emergency Management Department were battling at least six wild-fires that were sweeping across rural plains of Bradley, Rush Springs, Minco, Verden, and Alex.

Cake Ingredients: 1 box Betty Crocker Super Moist Triple Chocolate Cake Mix 2 eggs 1 c. Neighbor's Brewed Coffee, at room temperature 1 c. Garden Club mayonnaise Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

The Red Rock Area Prevention Resource Center recently teamed up with organizations such as Grady County Sheriff Office, El Reno police officer Scott Smith, Too Much too Lose coordinator Leslie Haltom, and area youth to conduct Alcohol Compliance Checks to make sure retailers are complying with the law by not selling alcohol to those under age 21.

Healthy, Minco-area residents, age 17 and older, are encouraged to donate in an Oklahoma Blood Institute blood drive for Morgan McMullen Monday, April 13.

Minco and Chickasha High Schools had the lowest College-Remediation rates in Grady County County, according to reports from the Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education for 2008.

It's time to enter the Made in Oklahoma Recipe Roundup. Oklahoma cooks with recipes using a minimum of two official Made in Oklahoma products have the chance to win a KitchenAid makeover, valued at $7,000. Categories include Mouthwatering Main Entrees, Dig In Desserts and Pleasing Appetizers.

Bass soloist to perform Come enjoy Southern Gospel's bass soloist Terry Hall at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 27 at Friendship United Methodist Church, four-and-a-half miles south of Minco to County Road 1220, turn west four miles to County Street 2790, then go one-half mile south.

Thunderstorms moving through the state Monday night dropped hail in Norman and doused parts of the state with heavy rains.

Bass Soloist to perform Come enjoy Southern Gospel's bass soloist Terry Hall at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 27 at Friendship United Methodist Church, four-and-a-half miles south of Minco to County Road 1220, turn west four miles to County Street 2790, then go one-half mile south.

Nichols Hills Publishing * PO Box 20340 * Oklahoma City * OK * 73156 * Phone: 405-755-3311 * Fax: 405-755-3315 Moving out of town THE HOME originally located at 1808 Guilford Ln.

Two locomotives and 18 cars of a 46-car Union Pacific train derailed near Pocasset on Monday after striking a tank truck.