Broken Arrow World Weekly Gallery July 20, 2015

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Four Broken Arrow Tigette teams won several awards at the Universal Dance Alliance camp recently held at the University of Oklahoma. Varsity team awards included irst place home routine, superior trophy on individual routines, spirit stick and a bid to nationals. The JV and ninth-grade squads earned second-place home routine and spirit stick in their respective divisions and eighth grade placed third in home routine and received a spirit stick. Courtesy

A young red shouldered hawk perches on a limb in Broken Arrow.

Photo by Donna Rennhack

Kevin McDugle, executive director of Soldier’s Wish, laughs as he is introduced during the monthly Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Tuesday in Broken Arrow. TIMOTHY TAI/Tulsa World

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Local oicials break ground on the Stoney Creek Hotel and Conference Center in Broken Arrow.

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Customers wait for freshly made fried pies at Fulton’s Pies & Pies in Broken Arrow on Thursday. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World

Sisters Annie Kramer (left) and Rachel Kramer competed for the Team Oklahoma’s All-Star Swim Team in the Central Zone MultiCultural Meet June 12-14 in Brownsburg, Indiana. Annie placed irst in the 100 backstroke and second in the 200 backBeaux Fulton makes peach fried pies at Fulton’s Pies & Pies in Broken Arrow on

stroke in the 13-14 age division. Courtesy

Thursday. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World

Kevin McDugle, executive director of Soldier’s Wish, talks about Soldier’s Wish

Kevin McDugle, executive director of Soldier’s Wish, talks about his time as a U.S.

during the monthly Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Tuesday in

Marine Corps drill sergeant during the monthly Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce

Broken Arrow. TIMOTHY TAI/Tulsa World

luncheon on Tuesday in Broken Arrow. TIMOTHY TAI/Tulsa World

Alan Tenzythof listens to Kevin McDugle, executive director of Soldier’s Wish, the speaker during the monthly Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Tuesday in Broken Arrow. TIMOTHY TAI/Tulsa World

Dawn Seing (center) of McGraw Realtors talks with her 17-month-old granddaughter, Lucy Perez, at the monthly Broken Arrow Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Tuesday in Broken Arrow. TIMOTHY TAI/Tulsa World

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 Looking Back at Broken Arrow 

Kelin Bowlds (left) and Alonso Aguilar show of their Special Olympics medals.

Communication is a vital need for

17, 1902, Broken Arrow opened its own

any town. Information needs to low

post oice. William Thomas Brooks, an

from one place to another. For much of

Elam transplant, was the irst postmaster.

Broken Arrow’s history, the post oice

It occupied what is today 118 S. Main

has been a communications hub. It has

St., where, according to the postmaster’s

grown from simply being part of a store

daughter Floy Greene, the post oice

to the modern postal system that we are

boxes were actually repurposed cracker

all familiar with. Over the years, it went

boxes. When it originally opened, it

through a number of changes. Broken

was a fourth-class post oice, where

Arrow’s irst post oice opened on June

the postmaster was paid a portion of all

9, 1881, in a store owned by William P.

canceled stamps. By 1905, it was moved

Moore. No one is quite sure where the

up to a third-class post oice due to the

location was except that it was between

volume of mail. As the years progressed,

two and ive miles south of present-day

so did the post oice. In 1920, it was

Broken Arrow. It served the area for only

moved once again to 211 S. Main St. A

a single year, closing in August 1882.

new facility was erected in 1965, and yet

Following the closure of that post oice,

another was built in 1983 at the current

residents were served by the post oice

post oice site at 1701 S. Main St. In 2001

in Weer or Elam. However, with the

a satellite facility was opened at the

coming of the railroad, a post oice was

southeast corner of Kenosha Street and

soon to return to Broken Arrow. On Dec.

Kilby Drive.

Courtesy Courtesy of the Broken Arrow Historical Society

Broken Arrow participants Maddie Buse (left), Jadyn Danner, Mya Harp, Alex Stephens and Hunter Hanson take part in Special Olympics. Courtesy

Broken Arrow softball players Ashley Watts (left), Maegan Rollow and Hannah Kelsey Ballenger and coach Greg James take part in Special Olympics. Courtesy

Heinrichs hold their Oklahoma High School Softball Coaches Association All-State plaques after a presentation by coach Randall King. Courtesy

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Broken Arrow is Oklahoma’s fourth-largest city and Tulsa’s largest suburb, with an estimated population of 100,073 in 2011. It is also one of the state’s fastest-growing cities, adding more than 25,000 residents and a slew of big-box retailers since 2000. Known for quiet suburban life and short commutes to Tulsa, Broken Arrow has been named by national publications as one of the best 100 places to live, one of the 10 best places for families, one of the 25 safest cities in America and one of the most afordable suburbs in the south. A downtown revitalization efort that began in 2005 has aimed to create an arts and entertainment district centered on the city’s Main Street, and several new restaurants, a historical museum and a performing arts center have headlined the recent downtown improvements.

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