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Young: Conspiracy behind complaints

By Traci Chapman
Published on July 3, 2008

Failures on a $1.5 million road overlay led to a war of words Tuesday between County Commissioners Don Young, Grant Hedrick and Phil Carson.

Young, District 2 Commissioner, said Hedrick and Carson were “stabbing me in the back — this is a character assassination. Here they criticize my roads — why isn’t anyone going out to look at their roads? My roads are a lot better than any others in the county.”

Council rejects request for full audit of books

By Traci Chapman
Published on July 3, 2008

City Council members shot down a motion by Ward 5 Councilwoman Linda Hagan for an audit of city books Tuesday.

Student parking privilege may come with drug testing strings

By Carolyn Cole
Published on July 3, 2008

Mustang High School students wanting to park their cars at school may face random drug testing this fall.

Mustang School Board members were asked to study a proposed student drug testing policy, which would require MHS students seeking parking permits and ninth- through 12th-grade students participating in competitions to submit for random drug testing starting as early as Aug. 1. The board is expected to consider the policy in more detail at its July 23 special board meeting.

City sparkles for Fourth - Community marks holiday with food, fun

By Carolyn Cole
Published on July 3, 2008

Cindy Stamp smiled and watched her grandchildren play at the firefighter’s bean supper Saturday in Wild Horse Park, remembering good times when her husband was a volunteer for the Mustang department.

Her husband Bill Stamp joined in the mid-1970s. Cindy Stamp said she remembers the friendship between the firefighters’ families as they prepared for those bean suppers more than three decades ago.

“We would clean beans and clean beans forever,” she said. “We had a lot of fun, it was so much fun. I really enjoyed it.”

School district to seek funding for $1.4 million land buy

By Carolyn Cole
Published on July 3, 2008

Mustang School Board members approved seeking $1.4 million in MAPS for Kids bond funds to buy 80 acres for a future school campus.

The property is half of 160 acres available at the southeast corner of SW 44th Street and Czech Hall Road. Mustang school officials have sought a contract to buy the east half of the land, Superintendent Karl Springer said, with the option to purchase the rest in 2009.

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