Weather Closings for Saturday and Sunday (March 20-21, 2010)

The City of Stillwater Multi Arts will be closed Saturday & Sunday.

The City of Stillwater Senior Center will be closed Saturday. It's always closed on Sundays.

The Stillwater Public Library plans to open; however, it's recommended that visitors call first in case plans change. (405) 372-3633.

Call Lakeside Golf at (405) 372-3399 and the City of Stillwater Community Center at (405) 533-8433 before leaving for activities at either facility.

Download the 'City of Stillwater Newsletter: Summer 2010'

Watch meetings: Stillwater City Council 3-15-10 ; Planning Commission 3-16-10

Watch in one segment on Vimeo.com or in ten-minute segments YouTube.com. Follow link for more information about Stillwater's City Government.

Tickets on sale: Bringing the Motor City to Stillwater! Legends of Motown: Starring HORIZON to perform March 22 at 7:30 p.m.

Straight out of Detroit comes HORIZON who will bring Motown to Stillwater on Monday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. with a performance at the City of Stillwater Community Center, 315 W. 8th Ave. HORIZON is an authentic, energetic, precise, harmonic, witty, and well-choreographed three-piece Motown music group. Dressed in classic Motown style, HORIZON's Rick Ingram, Prentiss Jones, and Earl Vinson will have the audience out of their seats, finger-snapping, moving, remembering, wanting to hear more of it all over again.

Tickets are on sale for $20 for adults, $18 for seniors and $12 for students. To purchase tickets visit tickets.stillwater.org or call (405) 533-8433. Tickets will be available at the door as long as they last.

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Stillwater Arts Festival announces dates

It’s spring and that means it’s time for the Stillwater Arts Festival. More than 80 fine artists from around the country will be in Stillwater for the 33rd Annual Stillwater Arts Festival on April 17 and 18 in Downtown Stillwater on Main Street.

Organized and presented by the City of Stillwater, the Stillwater Arts Festival is an outdoor arts event showcasing a juried exhibition of fine art with $1,475 in prize monies for the artists. The festival is held rain or shine. Click here: Learn more about juried artists and see a preview of their work.

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Tickets on sale: Enchantment Theatre Company presents beloved children's classic 'Harold & the Purple Crayon' Saturday, April 3

Join the City of Stillwater as it presents a magical night of dramatic masks, beautiful costumes, amazing puppets and talented actors in a theatrical production of the beloved children's book Harold and the Purple Crayon.

The Enchantment Theater Company will be in town Saturday, April 3 at 7 p.m. for one performance at the City of Stillwater Community Center, 315 W. 8th Ave .Tickets are on sale for $15 for adults and $8 for students.

Harold and the Purple Crayon, the first of seven delightful picture books by Crockett Johnson, following the zany adventures of an inventive young boy. As it turned out, there wasn't any moon that night nor was there a path to walk on, so Harold simply drew them. And thus his journey began. Resourceful and brave, Harold creates the world he wants to explore, using nothing more than a big purple crayon and his sky's-the-limit imagination.

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Tickets on sale: Bearfoot, an award-winning bluegrass band from Alaska, to perform Sunday, April 18 at 3 p.m.

Alaskan bluegrass band Bearfoot will perform at the City of Stillwater Community Center, 315 W. 8th Ave., Sunday, April 18 at 3 p.m. The band's 2009 album, Doors and Windows, recently hit No. 1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $8 for students.

Bearfoot's rise from über-talented music camp counselors to an award-winning international force has been nothing short of meteoric. Bearfoot also was nominated as Emerging Artist of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association.

Bearfoot earned one of roots music’s most prestigious awards – Telluride Bluegrass Band Champions – an honor they share with Dixie Chicks and Nickel Creek. They are a young acoustic folk/bluegrass band out of Anchorage, featuring powerful, emotive vocals, moving arrangements and instrumental excellence backed up by solid rhythm.

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Household Waste Collection Event slated for Saturday, May 1

The City of Stillwater Household Hazardous Waste Collection will be held Saturday, May 1 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Convenience Collection Center, 807 S. Perkins Road. Residents may drop off unwanted household hazardous waste free of charge.

The collection event, organized by the City of Stillwater Environmental Programs, is designed to help residents reduce the amount of household pollutants in their homes and help prevent them from entering the wastewater stream.

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Environmental Programs invites you to be part of Stillwater Trash-Off April 10

he City of Stillwater Environmental Programs invites area residents to participate in the 2010 Stillwater Trash-Off Saturday, April 10 from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers will meet at the Moose Lodge at 301 S. Perkins Road to clean up trash around Stillwater and show that “Litter is Not OK."

Those wishing to participate may contact the Environmental Programs to RSVP by April 5. Be sure to include how many will be participating. Environmental Programs will provide work gloves and safety vests for participants.

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OSU students, Moving at the end of the semester? If so, drop off unwanted trash and other unwanted stuff at the Convenience Collection Center

OSU students are invited to drop off their bulk items at the Convenience Collection Center, 807 S. Perkins Road, between April 19 and May 31 at to charge. The Center provides area residents with a convenient, professionally staffed, drive-thru service for disposing of non-hazardous recyclable goods, household waste and green waste.

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You are needed! Help Google bring Ultra High-Speed Internet to Stillwater, Oklahoma

Before March 26! Become a Facebook Fan. Sign an E-Petition. Let us know how you will use and benefit from ultra high-speed Internet!

If you live or work in Stillwater, we need you to take action! Google is planning to build experimental ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States to make the Internet better and faster.

Google’s networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. They'll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.

Google is asking local governments and residents to express their interest in the fiber optic trial, and to provide information about their community by completing their request for information.

From now until March 26, Google is asking interested municipalities, such as the City of Stillwater, to provide them with information about their communities through a Request for information (RFI), which will be used to determine where they will build their network.

What we need from you is participation in a grassroots campaign to show community support to generate ideas about how residents will use and benefit from the service.

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Learn origami at the Stillwater Public Library March 31

Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, will be taught by Stillwater resident Kiem Ta at the Stillwater Public Library Wednesday, March 31 at 6:30 p.m.

Participants can expect to learn the history of origami and the basic folds and creases used in the art. Ta will demonstrate how to make several figures and then help participants fold origami figures such as a lily flower, crane, swan, and nesting boxes.

“In my homeland, we learn origami informally in first and second grades,” said Ta. “We learn more from siblings and friends afterward. Mastering origami is a great lifelong learning opportunity.”

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Next Homebuyer Education Course will be held April 3: Down payment assistance up to $5,000 for qualified applicants

The next Homebuyer Education Course is set for Saturday, April 3 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Stillwater Public Library, 1107 S. Duck St. Lunch and course materials are provided for pre-registered class participants.

The event, which is free of charge, is co-sponsored by a local lender and is presented by certified extension educators from the OSU Cooperative Extension Service. Additional guest presentations are made by the Consumer Credit Counseling Service, local lenders, realtors, insurance agents, and home inspectors.

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TWO COMPETITIONS:

Call for young artists: Enter the Sister Cities International 'Young Artists Showcase'

Call for young authors: Enter the Sister Cities International 'Young Authors Showcase'

The 2010 theme "Your World" is an opportunity for young writers to answer the questions, “What makes you, you?”

Participants must be between 13 and 18 years of age on April 30, 2010.

All entries, with completed entry forms, must be received on or before 5 p.m. Thursday, April 15 by the Stillwater Sister Cities Council located in the City of Stillwater Community Center at 315 W. 8th Ave.

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Galloway discusses storm shelter registration and CodeRed Alert System

You may call Emergency Management at (405) 372-7484 and the staff will complete the forms for you. Or, you may go online to stillwater.org/seccc. Both forms are on the left-hand side of the page. Registration for both programs is free of charge. This information is confidential and used only by Emergency Management personnel.

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Select Your Household's Blue Cart Size Today! Automated Residential Waste Collection Program begins in April

Click here for the online form. Beginning this spring, a new, automated system for residential curbside waste collection will begin in Stillwater. Each household will receive a blue wheeled cart at no additional charge. The service will be once per week.

The Automated Residential Waste Collection Program is efficient, safe, and more sanitary than the standard bag collection. And, switching from cans to carts is easy. Residents just need to roll the cart out to the curb on the designated trash collection day, which is once per week. The trucks outfitted with hydraulic arms do the rest of the work.

Each household will receive a standard 96-gallon cart, unless residents complete and return a form requesting another option by April 1. Individuals or couples may want smaller carts, while larger families may need the option that specifies two 96-gallon carts.

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AARP tax-aides to provide free help with returns

AARP Tax Aides on hand to help people prepare their income tax forms at two City of Stillwater locations until April 15.

Aides will be at the City of Stillwater Senior Activity Center, 1015 E. 12th Ave., Monday through Thursday between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. and at the Stillwater Public Library, 1107 S. Duck St., Wednesday and Thursday between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.

This service is free and open to the public; however, bring all of tax documents including W-2s, 1099 forms and other income forms, last year's tax return, social security cards or Individual Tax ID forms and a valid photo ID.

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Stillwater Rural Fire Service area extended to residents who live beyond seven miles from station

Download 2010 Rural Fire Service Application/Contract

(STILLWATER, OKLA. / Feb. 23, 2010) — A recent change to the City of Stillwater ordinance concerning Rural Fire Service now allows property owners and residents who live seven miles or more from a Stillwater fire station to apply for contract.

Assistant Chief of Administration Tom Bradley said, "We encourage those outside the Stillwater city limits to evaluate your current insurance coverage and consider participating in the Rural Fire Service Program to ensure you are adequately protected in the event of an unforeseen emergency."

The annual fee for the Rural Fire Service Program is $100. Read more...

Stillwater Public Library reminds residents to plan ahead for state tax forms

Beginning Jan. 2, 2010, the Stillwater Public Library will be providing tax forms and instruction booklets for individuals to plan, prepare and file their 2009 taxes. However, state items will not be available.

According to the Oklahoma Tax Commission, it is not providing state forms or instructions to libraries this year, but it will mail these items automatically to residents as long as they filed last year and as long as they did not file online.

If a form does not arrive in the mail, the tax commission requests that taxpayers print their own tax forms from the OTC Web site at http://www.tax.ok.gov/itformcrt1.html. The tax commission also will send forms via mail by request. Contact taxpayer assistance at 1-800-522-8165 or otcmaster@tax.ok.gov to request forms by mail. When calling the toll free request number, choose option 4 to order forms.

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Routine fire hydrant flushing

The City of Stillwater Water Utilities will begin conducting routine fire hydrant maintenance program flushing between midnight and 8 a.m. in the following areas:

1) 6th to 12th

2) Duck to Western

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