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Matt and Natlie Fix join Suzanna Singleterry at the Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma tasting event. Page 12
PC North’s Amareea Colvin, right, sets up a teammate during last week’s volleyball match against Midwest City. Page 4
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NHills police find loaded gun, PCP, marijuana after high-speed chase By Eric Oesch Staff Writer Nichols Hills Police took an armed and dangerous violent criminal off the streets
after a high-speed police chase led to the arrest of a suspect wanted for probation violation in Missouri. Vice Mayor and Ward 1 City Councilman Sody Clements
commended the police department for their efforts during the August City Council meeting. In his report to city officials, Nichols Hills Police
Chief Steven Cox said that just after 2 a.m. on Sunday, July 6, police observed a vehicle traveling 50 mph on Pennsylvania Avenue just north of Wilshire Boulevard.
With the marked patrol car behind the suspect vehicle, the driver continued to accelerate to more than double the See POLICE, Page 3
NHills continues work to remove language in original plats By Eric Oesch Staff Writer
JENNIFER HUFF
HHall history teacher is the state’s top Jennifer Huff, a history teacher at Heritage Hall, has been named the 2025 Oklahoma History Teacher of the Year. This award is presented annually by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to K-12 American history education. Huff holds a master of education from the University of Central Oklahoma. She teaches social studies and English at Heritage Hall. She also serves her students as the yearbook advisor, student council sponsor and See TEACHER, Page 2
Back to school Grace, a senior, and John McDaniel, a sophomore, head back to school at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School. For more Fridayland students, see Page 2.
Yippee! Southwest brings back nonstop flights to Dallas Southwest Airlines announced it plans to resume nonstop service again from OKC Will Rogers International Airport to Dallas Love Field Airport starting March 5, 2026. There is to be two flights daily to Dallas Love Field. “I know Oklahoma City will be happy to hear that Dallas Love Field flights are returning,” Director of Airports Jeff Mulder said. “Southwest Airlines served the route until January 2020, and it has been a frequent request of local travelers to
bring that flight back. We appreciate Southwest’s ongoing commitment to our community and passengers.” Also, Southwest announced an increase in flights from Oklahoma City to Nashville and Chicago Midway, with service expanding to twice daily beginning in March 2026. In addition to adding flights, the airline is also withdrawing service from St. Louis and San Antonio next spring. Flights are on sale now and may be booked through southwest.com.
After approving a resolution last month to remove discriminatory language in city plats filed with the Oklahoma County Clerk, officials in Nichols Hills are finding it is not as simple as just changing the wording in the plats, but will require state legislation to correct the language. The City of Nichols Hills has started a lengthy process to remove the offensive language on the books since the 1930s. Before any changes can be made to the language in the century-old plats, they must first be filed and recorded again with the county clerk’s office. Nichols Hills has 62 plats throughout the twosquare-mile city. City attorneys are currently reviewing each plat to identify discriminatory language so it can be
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Dog of the Week This is Peaches, a Golden Retriever belonging to the Byrnes Family. She is very energetic, fun to be around, and we love her so much. Peaches loves to run around in the yard, go on walks and bark at people passing by. She has probably ‘greeted’ many of you as you have walked by our house. Email Pet of the Week submissions with complete descriptions to: rose@okcfriday.com.
removed. “I don’t know the exact number currently, but I know many of the plats have such language,” said city manager Shane Pate. The city has chosen the Mayfair Park Section of Nichols Hills as the first to amend. The Mayfair Park Section is the city’s largest plat and was filed in 1930 just after the city was incorporated in 1929. An affidavit filed this month with the county clerk’s office pertaining to the Mayfair Park Section Plat in Nichols Hills states, “due to the inclusion of an illegal discriminatory restrictive covenant, the Plat shall be amended to redact, remove and strict the following illegal discriminatory restrict covenant: “Ownership Or Occupancy By Negroes Prohibited: None of the lots shown on said plat See NHILLS, Page 3