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1 week ago | yahoo.com | Andy Dossett |Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise

Get your goggles and flip-flops ready — Bartlesville’s Sooner and Frontier pools are diving back into action on May 24, just in time to kick off Memorial Day weekend with a cannonball. City officials confirmed that both public pools would be open for business by then, assuming there would be no unexpected plumbing drama. And if Mother Nature cooperates, local splash pads could open even sooner, giving kids and parents an early reprieve from the rising temps.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Andy Dossett |Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise

With no competing bids submitted by the April 28 deadline, a federal bankruptcy court is moving forward with the $1.4 million sale of Bartlesville’s historic Price Tower to McFarlin Building LLC. The deal, first outlined in court filings earlier this month, was confirmed in a motion filed Monday by Chapter 7 Trustee Patrick J. Malloy III. Despite notice being sent to more than 900 potential bidders, no counteroffers or objections were received by the deadline.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Andy Dossett |Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise

Flooding along the Caney River remains unlikely this week despite heavy rains, Washington County Emergency Management officials said, but they remain on high alert as more storms approach. Early forecasts predicting up to eight inches of rain over a seven-day period initially raised concerns, said Kary Cox, the agency’s operations director. Combined with Copan and Hulah lakes already sitting several feet above normal levels, the risk for flooding seemed possible.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Andy Dossett |Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise

That iconic, high-pitched drone of summer won’t be reaching a fever pitch in Oklahoma this year — at least not from the billions of cicadas emerging in the east. Brood XIV, a massive group of 17-year periodical cicadas, is emerging this spring by the billions. But the Sooner State will be spared the full-on assault. While states like Kentucky and Tennessee brace for a literal buzz bomb, eastern Oklahoma sits safely outside the splash zone for 2025’s swarm.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Andy Dossett |Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise

Amid an ongoing police investigation into "allegations" at Madison Middle School, Principal Joey Eidson has resigned, district officials confirmed Wednesday. Bartlesville Police denied escorting any personnel from school grounds on March 28, despite social media rumors that suggest Eidson had been removed from the campus. Eidson has not been charged with any crime. “No one has been arrested or charged with a crime,” the department said in a statement.