By Sheridan on
5/23/2008 4:58 PM
Have you seen the workers at Ramada Inn on 2nd Avenue busily adding a new facade? Ten will get you 20 that they're not doing much to the interior. Hmm. I wonder why Ramada would update the exterior. It wouldn't have anything to do with Lawton's urban renewal plans, calling for the motel to be bought out and converted for the multi-use, residential retail (read Target store) development city planners have in mind, would it? The owners probably think they can shake an extra $50K out of th ...
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By Sheridan on
5/8/2008 9:39 PM
If you have a death wish, or are hoping for a rear ender to earn an insurance payday on your clunker, try driving up and down North Sheridan in the northbound lanes. Not only is street construction limiting you to one lane near the critical turn into Wal-Mart, now that the new Carl's Jr. is open, there is also traffic exiting and entering just beyond the traffic cones, creating all sorts of peril. It has long amazed me someone hasn't been killed pulling into Wal-Mart. You'll note that t ...
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By Sheridan on
3/29/2008 8:39 PM
So Lawton now is home to a professional sports championship. After dispatching teams from such larger cities as Atlanta and Albany, New York throughout the season and beating the similarly sized city of Yakima (though the team is named YakAMA in an evident homage to Barack ObAMA) the Oklahoma Cavalry (the team is now renamed Lawton-Ft. Sill, in an evident homage to Lawton-Ft. Sill) beat a team from a city a third the size of Lawton. Minot, North Dakota, pop. 37,000, is almost exactly th ...
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By Sheridan on
3/6/2008 10:33 PM
Let's see, yesterday there was an 80 percent chance of snow today and the forecast was for 3 to 5 inches. Then it was for 1 to 3 inches. Then it was for at least an inch. Now Skippy (Dan Zarrow) has the audacity to say it was TOO WARM to snow. Hey Skippy, it didn't even RAIN!!! (By the way, I was once told that exclamation points are substitutes for poor vocabulary, so there you have it) Can anyone count the number of times we've had snow forecast that didn't happen? Why don't they just ...
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By Sheridan on
2/15/2008 10:32 PM
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 ...
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By Sheridan on
2/2/2008 10:31 PM
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 ...
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By Sheridan on
1/11/2008 5:09 PM
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
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By Sheridan on
12/6/2007 6:59 PM
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 ...
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By Sheridan on
11/15/2007 4:37 PM
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 ...
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By Sheridan on
10/26/2007 9:25 PM
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 ...
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