Local/Area News
The annual Henryetta Main Street Halloween march is going to be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. October 31.
Merchants throughout the town will be providing sweet treats to the over 1,000 youngsters expected to make the rounds that day.
The Henryetta police department will be serving up hot dogs, chips and a drink to every youngster who stops by said police chief Steve Norman.
The 2019 Halloween participants include:
1st National Bank & Trust
Abundant Life Church
American Exchange Bank
Baker’s Pawn & Rentals
Best Nails
Boost Mobile
Henryetta Skilled Nursing & Rehab
Burnett Boutique
Burnett Furniture
Burnett Hardware
Caves Jewelry
Continental Credit
Crosby Reality
Edward Jones Jeremy Roberts
Fountain View Manor
First Family Federal Credit Union
Good Shepherd Hospice
Henryetta Chamber of Commerce
Henryetta City Hall
Henryetta Drug
Henryetta Eye Center
Henryetta Fire Dept.
Henryetta Freelance
Henryetta Music Center
Henryetta Public Library
Henryetta Tag Office
House of Overalls
KIBOIS Area Transit System
Main Street Barber Shop
R. E. Palmer Accounting
Remax Double Diamond Properties
Rheba’s Flowers
Ritz Barber Shop
Scizzors / Excell Fitness
Security Finance
The Bread House
Tiger Mountain Recovery
Staff members at the Henryetta hospital kept the Pink Out theme going this past week. The pink shirts, plants and other acourtrements demonstrated their support of the effort to battle breast cancer.
Henryetta school is in the process of soliciting bids for the new gym floor that will replace the one damaged by a water leak shortly after the start of the school year.When installed, the new floor will look similar to the preliminary artists' drawing shown above. It is expected to cost nearly $400,000 and school officials hope to have it ready shortly after the start of the basketball season.
The schedule is in the process of being reworked to hold some away games in place of the games at home.
Demolition of one of the two motels on the east side of Henryetta is expected to start within the next two weeks.
That was the announcement Tuesday morning by mayor Jennifer Munholland at the Henryetta Economic Development Authority (HEDA) meeting.
She said the motel building along with two houses purchased by QuikTrip will start the process of putting in a new travel center along US 75.
“They (QuikTrip) are waiting for the owners to move before taking over the motel on the north side of the property,” she said. “Construction is supposed to start in February or March.”
She also announced the new Burger King is projected to be open for business Nov. 11.
The Main Street overlay project slated to start this week, is expected to take 30 days or less, according to Munholland. “They (Oklahoma Department of Transportation) said it will have minimal impact on Cruise Knight.” That downtown event is scheduled for Oct. 26.
By contrast, Munholland said work on the bridges on US 75, “is going to be a nightmare.” That work calls for removal of the two bridges making up the overpass spanning the abandoned KO&G rail line and replacing decking and beams on the bridges across Coal Creek.
The railroad overpass will not be cut down in height but, rather, workers will be filling in the space with dirt and pouring a road surface over it.
She said ODOT officials told her they “have no intention of doing anything,” on the entrance and exit leading to Anchor Glass. “We are trying to get Senator Roger Thompson to help with this.”
The sewer line installed under I-40 is completed now. Munholland said she expects Super 8 Motel owner Zach Patel to connect to it soon. “No other jobs have gone as smoothly as this one,” she said.
She pointed out Patel has been busy clearing off trees and brush next to his current motel with construction to start on a new motel west of town.
The October distribution totaled $220,647, that was down $11,190 from a year ago when the town received $239,838.
That drop was offset slightly by the increase in use tax monies. This year the town received $20,307, a gain of $1,489 over the 2018 total.
The decline was also felt by the city of Okmulgee, This year the town received $532,365, a drop of $3,576 from the previous year.
Okmulgee County also had a decline, down $32,116 from the $401,260 last October.
Dewar’s sales tax return was on the short end with $9,425 collected this year compared to $10,737 a year ago.
By contrast, Okemah sales were up wth a check for $109,228, well above the $97,605 last year.
Weleetka had a drop receiving $13,407 this year compared to $18,222 a year ago.
Statewide, the disbursement of $161,994,343 in sales tax collections returned to the cities and towns reflected an increase of $4,006,960 from the $157,987,383 distributed to the cities and towns in October last year.