The Pawhuska Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a Candidate forum this Tuesday at the Pawhuska Community Center. Meet the Candidates for Oklahoma State House District 36 :
J Paul Ganzel
Jared Lemmons
Jordan Lauffer
Louise Redcorn
Sean Roberts


And Candidates for State Senate District 10:
Gary R. Lanham
Bill Coleman
Amber Roberts


And the District Attorney Candidates:
Rex Duncan
Mike Fisher


The Pawhuska Community Center will open their doors to the public at 5:45pm and the Forum will begin at 6pm. If you cannot join tune in for the live broadcast on KPGM AM 1500 and FM 99.1

​Tuesday Osage Nation voters spoke and re-elected Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear and Assistant Principal Chief Raymond Red Corn. Additionally, the nation elected four new members to the Osage Nation Congress, Scott BigHorse, Eli Potts, Brandy Lemon, Paula Stabler and re-elected Alice Goodfox, and Angela Pratt.


The three Osage Nation Supreme Court Justices, Meredith Drent, Elizabeth Lohah Homer, and Drew Pierce were selected to retain their positions in the Osage Nations Judicial Branch.


Elected to the Osage Nation Minerals Council were Talee Redcorn, Susan Revard Forman, Paul S. Revard, Andrew Yates, Marsha L. Harlan, Myron F. Red Eagle, Everett M. Waller, and Margo Gray.


Election results will be official barring any discrepancy Friday.


For more details regarding the Osage Nation election visit:
Osage News at http://www.osagenews.org/en/article/2018/06/04/osage-election-results-announced/
Or the Osage Nation Official Website at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/

Osage County Treasurer Sally Hulse described a situation which seemed more fiction than fact at this week's meeting of the Osage County Board of County Commissioners. Hulse brought forward an item regarding a tax refund to resident Tom Nave on property acquired through resale for the amount of $88.19.


The property was purchased in 1999 off of County resale as the property had been on the county books since 1954. However, in 1950 the Oklahoma Department of Transportation had signed a Declaration Deed for Public Highway Space on the same property, when the property was sold in 1954 the Declaration Deed did not accompany the title for the land. When the county resold the property in 1999 to Mr. Nave, the sale was actually in violation of the Declaration Deed through ODOT. The property was adjacent to Nave’s existing property and had not been developed therefore Hulse requested the tax refund for the resold property. Nave had been paying $6 per year on the single lot property and will receive a total of $106.19 as reimbursement for taxes paid, $88.19 from the County Treasurer's Office and $18 from other public services.


The Osage County Commissioners also opened and awarded bids for road & bridge items, grader blades, state spec Rock, non-state spec Rock, and concrete and sand. All bids were accepted for tabulation, with the exception of concrete and sand, Evans Concrete was accepted for D#2, and sand was accepted based on Project location and transportation.


The next meeting of the Osage County Board of County Commissioners will be Monday at 10am at the Osage County Courthouse in Pawhuska.

​Osage County Commissioners will meet in special session Friday afternoon. The board will take action on proposals for an ambulance service contractor to serve the Barnsdall and Avant area.
 
Samaritan Ambulance will withdraw from its contract on June 30th.  The board plans to select an ambulance service to serve the two communities starting July first or as soon as possible if there is not enough lead time to have people and equipment in place.  The contractor would also provide service for the 2019 fiscal year.
 
The board of commissioners will convene at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Osage County Courthouse in Pawhuska.