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Awards given to police, firefighter and emergency service employees of the year By Jeff Harrison Midwest City Beacon Mid-Del Tinker 100 honored local first responders and public safety officers last week at their annual awards banquet at Rose State College. The organization presented awards for firefighter and police officer of the year for Tinker Air…
21-year-old man killed, juvenile injured in shooting at Midwest Territory Apartments By Jeff Harrison Midwest City Beacon One person was killed, and another was injured following a shooting early Sunday morning at an apartment complex in Midwest City, police said. According to the Midwest City Police Department, about 3:31 a.m. officers responded to shots fired…
Area Sports
By Jeff Harrison Midwest City Beacon NORMAN – Dewayne Bradley won a lot of games at Midwest City High School. A victory in the state championship game always escaped him. The Bombers finished state runner-up three times during his 12 years at the helm. Bradley retired last year after three seasons at Noble. But when…
Midwest City caps incredible turnaround with win over Booker T Washington for 5A title By Jeff Harrison Midwest City Beacon NORMAN – Torey Noel has been talking about a turnaround since the day he was hired to coach his alma mater last spring. And he didn’t aim low. Noel promised the Midwest City boys would…
Business
By Jeff Harrison Midwest City Beacon Crews have started work on a new Whataburger restaurant in Midwest City. Whataburger is building a new location at 5925 SE 15th St., near the Regal Warren Theatre. The restaurant will fill the last vacant property along SE 15th St. in the Sooner Rose shopping center. “I’m glad they’re…
By Jeff Harrison Midwest City Beacon Employees at a Starbucks in Midwest City voted to unionize last week. Union organizers asked for higher wages, better working conditions and consistent working hours. Following a 13-3 vote, the store at 7203 SE 29th St. will join the Starbucks Workers United. It is the fourth store in the…
Education
Brian Muller, a fourth-grade teacher at Parkview Elementary, has been selected as a finalist for Oklahoma Teacher of the Year. Muller was named the Mid-Del School District Teacher of the Year in 2023. He has been an educator in the district for 23 years. Muller is a Midwest City native. He and his wife have…
By Jeff Harrison Midwest City Beacon Mid-Del Schools hosted their annual elementary school botball challenge Saturday at Soldier Creek Elementary School. More than 100 students from eight elementary schools competed in the event. The teams programed autonomous robots to complete various challenges including a bonus debugging challenge. They received a pin for each challenge they…
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The Midwest City, Carl Albert and Del City volleyball teams recently started their fall practices. The OSSAA high school volleyball season officially starts Aug. 10.
Midwest City’s Christian Cook and Del City’s Nate Goodlow and Demontreal Crutchfield took part in the Oklahoma Basketball Coaches Association’s large school all-state game Saturday at UCO’s Hamilton Fieldhouse. Cook led all scorers with 22 points but the West lost 89-84. Crutchfield finished with 7 points and Goodlow had 6 points.
Del City
By Jeff Harrison Midwest City Beacon Oklahoma County Commissioner Myles Davidson denied that his vote on the location for the new county jail was impacted by campaign donations that he received from an executive with the company that owns that property. Campaign records show that William Garrett, who listed himself as a manager with Garrett…
By Lea Terry Midwest City Beacon In the last several years, farmers markets have grown in both number and popularity across the metro area, with cities including Edmond, Yukon, Mustang and Shawnee establishing their own. At the Jan. 20 City of Del City city council meeting, members approved a resolution to create a farmers market…