Around the Lake...

A Newcomers Guide for Grand Lake has been published with lots of interesting info for people moving to the lake area. Publisher is Doug Drown, of Grand Lake Media. It contains area history, school test scores, info on internet access, a physician directory and much more. Free copies are available at any Grove realtor office or at city hall…the troubles just keep in coming in McAlester, as this week the County Court Clerk was accused of fraud…she claimed it happened because she needed "an escape from my personal misery." Previously the mayor, most of the council, and the city manager have either quit or been fired in this fine city in Little Dixie…Last Monday's edition of The Oklahoma Daily, the OU student newspaper, placed some 10,000 condoms on the cover to highlight safe sex…"We are up to our knees in sex on this campus," said the paper's managing editor. How about that for a pun…when your Grove Observer editor was managing editor of the OU paper many years ago, we hadn't even seen a condom yet and would have been kicked out of school had we papered the campus with them…Osage County has voted to put a 5% tax on lodging guests at the county's hotels and motels. This is probably something that should be considered in Grove, if we ever going to get a new community center or increase our tourism efforts…