Wilda Rose Sontheimer

Wilda Rose Sontheimer, age 88, of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Frisco, Texas passed away on March 28, 2014 in Norman, Oklahoma.  She was born on January 12, 1926 in Clarkton, Missouri to Clarence and Cona (McFarland) Reeves, the sixth of eight children.   Wilda married Eugene Thomas Sontheimer on March 17, 1949 in St. Louis, Missouri.  After her husband’s death in 2012, she relocated to Norman.

She was a homemaker, an active participant in her community, an artist and a member of the Roman Catholic Faith.  She and her husband met while working at American Airlines in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Tulsa County Juvenile facilities are inadequate, ineffective and dangerous

Editorial:  Over the six and one half years I spent as a Tulsa County commissioner I became very aware of the need for a new juvenile justice facility and for additional pods at the David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center.

For decades, the facilities at the Tulsa County Juvenile Bureau have been inadequate. Most people assume that it simply is a place where juvenile delinquents are held in detention awaiting a judicial decision. The fact is the center handles thousands of family matters where children are in need of protection, care & placement.

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The Arkansas is the sixth longest river in America and the second longest tributary to the Mississippi River. Over the course of time in Tulsa it has been polluted then protected both ignored and studied in exhaustive detail. Often slandered, the Arkansas River in Tulsa County now stands as the local challenge of our generation. [Update: City voters approved two low water dams April 5, 2016, but a dam in Sand Springs still awaits funding and is critical to restore the River Corridor in Tulsa County.]

The Arkansas is a prairie river that, in major part, supports navigation providing substance for the most inland port in America – The Tulsa Port of Catoosa – after it joins as one of three rivers near Muskogee, south of Tulsa.  To the northwest of the metropolitan area the Keystone Dam ends Arkansas River’s “wild prairie” phase as the dam controls water releases to prevent flooding and provide hydroelectric power.
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Attorney General Scott Pruitt

Attorney General Scott Pruitt Wednesday issued a statement on the district court’s decision in the case against former physician assistant Kenneth Adams, who is accused in the deaths of two veterans at Claremore’s veterans center.

On Tuesday, a preliminary hearing for Adams was held in Rogers County District Court where prosecutors presented their case in the deaths of Peter “Jay” Minter, 85, and Louis Arterberry, 86. The judge ordered Adams to face trial on all four felony counts and set his arraignment for 9:30 a.m. April 10 before Judge Steidley in Rogers County District Court.
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County Commissioners today passed a resolution creating a burn ban effective immediately for a period of seven days. Next Monday Commissioners will consider an extension during the scheduled Tulsa Board of County Commissioners meeting. The resolution prohibits outdoor burning in the county including controlled burns and bonfires – effective immediately.
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