Observations...

Crickey Mate! The Grove Sun Daily has been sold to the Australians. American Consolidation Media LLC of Dallas, which is wholly owned by Macquarie Media Group of Sydney, a huge media conglomerate, also purchased the Miami News-Record several months ago as well as the newspaper in Columbus, Kan. Jeremy Halbreich is Chairman and President of ACM and Michael Thornberry is Regional VP and Publisher of the Grove Sun Daily. We don't expect any immediate changes in the Sun Daily. The larger the turtle, the slower it moves. Nearly all Oklahoma daily newspapers are owned by media conglomerates, following a trend, with local ownership stepping aside. The Grove Sun was first published in 1889…The Grove Health Care Trust Authority met for about 30 minutes this week to discuss Ordinance 518 pertaining to hospitals and ambulatory surgical care facilities, and agreed to meet again at 1 p.m. Friday, July 6, with renderings, plans, financial information for the planned new Grove Integris Hospital, which will cost about $58 million. The hospital group seeks $1 million from the City of Grove as a statement of interest from the city…An interesting item showed up in City Attorney Ron Cates' monthly billing statement to the city. "Teleconference with Debbie Maviety regarding article in Newspaper on suspended office, regarding City Council members comments made extemporaneously regarding Personnel Issues, Review City Code and State Statutes." State Statutes prohibit city council members from ordering or giving instructions to any city employee other than the City Manager and City Treasurer…Now that the storefronts are exposed following removal of the Bradford Pear trees, we wonder what the net effect of the new Downtown Revitalization Project and Streetscape work will be, considering the awful look of some of the storefronts, which are empty buildings long neglected…