Municipal candidate filings set to begin Monday, Feb. 2

Candidates for municipal office in six Logan County municipalities file declarations of candidacy beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, February 2. Three city council seats and the mayor position for the City of Guthrie are up for election.

Langston University receives $1.45 million gift

Langston University recently received the largest donation to date and will help fund scholarships toward the Accounting Department as well as fund projects campus-wide.

Man shot and wounded on Langston campus

An early morning shooting sent one man to the hospital early Saturday morning in Langston. The same weekend Langston University was celebrating Homecoming.

Langston’s new basketball coaches meet Guthrie community at Chamber Coffee

 

By Darl DeVault
Special to Guthrie News Page

The Guthrie Chamber of Commerce’s weekly coffee had a distinctly sports theme Wednesday morning at the Territorial Capitol Sports Museum when Langston University officials introduced their new basketball head coaches to the community.

Voters say yes to county tax and no to city sales tax

The votes were counted on Tuesday and it concluded with mix results for two sales tax propositions. Voters approved a three-fourths of one percent tax for Logan County. Meanwhile, City of Guthrie voters rejected a proposed one percent increase.

County jail being paid off early; officials hopeful for county sales tax

Logan County’s citizens may remember, in 2005, they passed a ten year sales tax proposition to fund the building, operation and maintenance of the new Detention Center over a period of ten years.  The termination of that sales tax is August 2015.

County sales tax decrease to be decided by voters

With the expiring county tax for the construction of the Logan County jail upcoming, the Board of County Commissioners voted 2-1 to call for an election to lower the current one percent county sales tax to three-fourths of one percent.

Video: Cheryl Miller introduced as head coach at Langston

Hall of Fame Cheryl Miller, yes that Cheryl Miller, was formally introduced Wednesday morning as the women’s head coach at Langston University inside C.F. Gayles Fieldhouse.

Burned body found in rural Logan County

UPDATE ON LOGAN COUNTY HOMICIDE VICTIM (Feb. 1 at 4:00 p.m.)

From the investigators. The victim is going to be in his 20’s to possibly early 30’s. 5’8 give or take a couple inches, has tatoo on right shoulder of bulls skull and seal of the Cherokee nation on upper right chest. Unknown weight. Assuming American Indian, but was probably lighter skinned.

The partial tattoo on the bottom is on the right shoulder. The Cherokees have a legend about the horned serpent called the Uktena Investigators believe that is part of the tattoo.

The Cherokee Nation Seal is on the chest of yesterday’s homicide victim.

Langston mourning the loss of their mayor

The town of Langston is mourning the death of their mayor.