So yet another affront to good taste bit the dust this week. This weekend I sampled the fare at Fire Mountain, and it was even blander than normal. The grill was barely running. Now I know why. Everything was winding down. Not that the employees had much of a head's up. They were only informed a day or two before the end came. The parent company that also runs Ryan's filed for bankruptcy reorganization. I'm not a big Golden Corral buff, but the Corral has been clearly the better trough ... Read More »

OK. You know you need to talk about it. You can’t get your two cents worth in the paper, on TV or the radio. Come sit down, have some tea and roots and let’s just get this out.

Does anyone know what the rules are about trash pick up in Lawton?

Lord knows I’ve tried to understand.

The other day, my cans got stood up on their date with the sanitation engineers. I thought it was because the cans were ... Read More »

Has anyone else been blinded by the light of a thousand suns that is the new Ramon's advertising board on Gore after dark?

Speaking of not being able to stand the light, did you catch the LPD's explanation of the 70 percent increase in robberies? They count crime differently. Only they didn't say in what way they count crime differently. No one doubts that crime is up, not even the city or the LPD. This is the confluence of a number of factors, not the least o ... Read More »

So Olive Garden opens its doors at 4 p.m. Monday and, with decades of anticipation ready to burst forth, everyone is forecasting 1 1/2 to 2 hours waits the first, dinner-only week. It reminds one of the old Yogi Berra line "My favorite restaurant closed. It got so crowded nobody went there anymore." Obviously that won't be the fate of Olive Garden, but one has to wonder about Lawton's other three Italian restaurants: Giovanni's, Luigi's and Bella Mia

Well, mercy me, sorry it’s been so long but I had no idea that I was going to have so much company before Christmas!

In case you’ve been living in a hole (pun intended) and didn’t know, there is a lights display in Elmer Thomas Park. It’s called Holiday in the Park, and I suppose it is for some, but for those of us that live out here, it’s quite a distraction.

Now I’m all fo ... Read More »

You'd have to be blind not to notice all the building going on in Lawton. After years of pre-BRAC indecision, the cork is finally out of the construction bottle. Starbucks is on the verge of opening on Sheridan, and while Olive Garden looks ready to open its doors any minute, word is that they will not open until the first of 08. Red River Federal Credit Union is moving in from Altus with a location by ... Read More »

News flash. Yesterday was windy. Those of you with hair in your eyes probably know that. In fact the highest wind gust caught at the airport was 50 mph.  When it's that windy the air blows up your nose like water when you dive feet first. Today, however, I could hardly walk in my yard without crushing a plump pecan. The wet weather this year gave birth to greatest bumper crop of sweet pecans I have ever seen. It is amazing what the wind turns up. On Cache Road that orange netti ... Read More »

But, we were kids once. We didn't have much when we were growing up and some years we couldn't afford a costume, s ... Read More »

Raise your hand if you've had your house or car burgled. That's what I thought. Most of us. And that fact is why the shooting death of teen burglar Freddie Stuever resonates so deeply among Lawtonians. At first glance the shooting seemed like it might tread the boundary of an actionable offense. That was only at first glance.

When Jeff Dorrell confronted a burglar carrying out a gun case from Dorrell's parent's home on NW 70th, what happened next was the culmination ... Read More »

When you were watching the report about the Christmas House in our fair Elmer Thomas Park being torched, you also heard the confession. We were clearly barking out our manifesto in the background. Don't tread on me, or drive on me while you meander through the park looking at Christmas lights. Prairie dogs unite. All you do-gooders say you will rebuild the Christmas House and then post cameras to keep us from doing to again. Catch us if you can! Does the Oklahoma Criminal Code apply to ... Read More »