Mustang Times Area News
Bronco Nutrition offers healthy options for Mustang residents
By Jess Kelsey Managing Editor Bronco Nutrition continues to serve up health and positivity for Mustang residents. Located at 429 E. state Highway 152 in Mustang, Owners Lesley Glass, Alex Vanderpool and Tyler Varney welcome all to come and try the variety of nutritious treats offered at Bronco Nutrition. The Mustang business specializes in nutrition…
Read More5th Annual Hot Rod Hundred Reliability Run returns to Mustang
By Jess Kelsey Managing Editor Pre-1973 hot rods and customs will cruise more than 100 miles across Oklahoma, rolling out of Mustang’s Wild Horse Park Saturday, Sept. 15 for the fifth annual Hot Rod Hundred (HRH). Hundreds of classic vehicles will gather outside Mustang Town Center, with the first car leaving around 9 a.m. to…
Read MoreBaking Memories: Group bakes thousands of kolaches for upcoming Czech Festival
By Traci Chapman Staff Writer For Yukon’s Tuesday Night Baking Group, tradition is the warmth of freshly baked dough, the tartness of fresh fruit, the richness of butter – and the smiles and excitement when all of those come together to form thousands of kolaches clamored after by Czech Festival attendees year after year. “It’s…
Read MoreUpcoming book to explore Canadian County’s haunted past
Co-authors seeking public help in collecting testimonies for next project By Jess Kelsey Managing Editor From seeing apparitions that walk the shore of Lake Overholser, hearing disembodied voices echo around Yukon’s Stage Door Theatre, witnessing strange presences peer through the broken windows of the abandoned Concho Indian School, to the bone chilling tales of Deadman’s…
Read MoreWestern Days Organizers Hope to Start Two-Step Tradition
By Traci Chapman Staff Writer Mustang Western Day organizers hope to establish a new tradition this year with a contest that combines tunes, two-step and treasure. “We had such a positive response last year when we brought back the street dance that we thought we could build on that even more by organizing a two-step…
Read MoreImani Milele Children’s Choir performs at Mustang’s Freedom Fellowship Church
By Traci Chapman Staff Writer The heart and soul of Uganda and its children came to Mustang Saturday, as the Imani Milele Children’s Choir took the stage in a special Freedom Fellowship Church concert. The choir tells the story of Africa – and Uganda in particular. It’s a place of deep contrasts – crippling poverty…
Read MoreMustang cat takes top honor at Oklahoma festival
By Jess Kelsey Managing Editor Strutting his famous superhero getup, Jax Skywalker Wilson took the main stage Saturday night at the Myriad Gardens Cat Video Fest in Oklahoma City to receive a top honor three years in the making. Helped onstage by his owner and Mustang local, Troy Wilson, Jax the cat was awarded with…
Read MoreMurray’s Play Place and Party Room now open in Yukon
By Jess Kelsey Managing Editor Offering an inviting place for young families to come and enjoy time together, Murray’s Play Place and Party Room is now open in Yukon, located at 1109 S. Cornwell Ave. Designed for children ages newborn through six-years-old, Murray’s Play Place was created by a Yukon family who saw a need…
Read MoreOrganizers look to beef up Western Days chili cook-off
By Traci Chapman Staff Writer With Western Days now less than a month away, organizers are hoping to beef up the participant number for one of its signature activities. Western Days chili cook-off has been a major attraction through the years – distinctive, in part, because it is held Friday evening, rather than many of…
Read MoreSummer party makes a splash Aug. 3
By Traci Chapman Staff Writer It was three years ago a Mustang woman decided to take her dream of expanding the city’s parks and make it a reality, in the process changing the face of recreational opportunities available to all area families. Lynly Grider was that woman – with her Mustang Parks Foundation board, a…
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