A boyscout looks over some Pinewood Derby entries

during the Pack 452 races held Saturday at the Methodist church in Stigler.

(Staff photo by Linus Williams Jrl)

Officers from the Stigler Police Department, Haskell County Sheriff's Office and District 18 Narcotics Task Force stop for quick photo before heading out on a suspect roundup Friday morning. Sheriff Brian Hale joined the officers later in the morning.

Police arrest eight in roundup
By Doug Russell
News Editor
In four hours Friday, police arrested eight people in a roundup that had officers traveling to areas as scattered as Hoyt, Whitefield, Lona Valley, Brooken and Stigler.
Officers had warrants in hand for five of those arrested and opened new cases on the other three.
Drugs were involved in each of the new cases, including one that officers say will likely result in misdemeanor charges of marijuana and drug paraphernalia possession.
"We have arrest warrants on 17 people from investigations that have been going on for several months," District 18 Narcotics Task Force agent Tim Turner said shortly before a caravan of police vehicles rolled out of Stigler at 7 a.m.
Some of the warrants were for possession of stolen property. Others were drug related, "But even the people we're getting for stolen property are drug people," said Stigler police officer Jerred Vail.
Some of those for whom the officers had warrants had moved out before police arrived. Some still lived in the homes listed on the warrants, but were nowhere around when officers showed up.
But some were home and, faced with more than a dozen police officers from three agencies, surrendered without difficulty.
As of this writing (noon Friday), the roundup was continuing.
Read more in the March 10 issue of the Stigler News-Sentinel.

Kinta's old/new cafeteria

by: Karen West Staff writer

Kinta Public School is refurbishing the old WPA building that used to be the school many years ago. Built in 1936, it served as the elementary school in Kinta until the new school building was constructed in the early 1950s, following a fire that destroyed the two-story wooden high school.
The old building had been renovated many years ago and lost its historic value, but far from being a negative thing, new life is being brought to this old building. It is being restored and modernized inside, but will retain it's historic glory on the outside.. (more on this story in this week's Stigler News Sentinel)

Hes a Fighter

by: Doug Russel News Editor

Three men have been charged in connection with the Feb. 15 assault that left a Stigler man partially paralyzed.
Oklahoma City police officer Chad Peery, who lives near Stigler when not working his seven-on, seven-off shift in the capitol city, was injured while trying to break up a fight at an Oklahoma City bar.
Three men were charged in Oklahoma County District Court with maiming and conspiracy to commit assault and battery of a police officer.
Joshua B. Rinken, 28, Norman; Jimmy Dan Smith, 28, Tuttle, and Cadmio Antonio Lopez, 31, Newcastle have each been ordered held without bond and each faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted.." (more on this story in this week's Stigler News Sentinel)

Celebrating Success

And looking to the future

by: Doug Russel News Editor

All the glory goes to the Lord, because it's His hand that guides. That's the word from the Stigler-Haskell County Male Volunteer of the Year for 2010, Billy Cleveland.
Cleveland — as well as a host of others — was honored during the third annual Stigler-Haskell County Appreciation Dinner Saturday night.
Kevin Alexander catered an Italian-style dinner for the event. Members of the Stigler High School Student Council served the meal and waited on those attending." (more on this story in this week's Stigler News Sentinel)