📅 What’s Happening Around Woodward Next Week

🌤️ Woodward Weather: Next Week

Overall Outlook:
A pleasant, mild week ahead with warmer temperatures early and a few clouds drifting in later. Great weather to get out and enjoy local events.

☀️ Monday – Tuesday
Mostly sunny and comfortable
Highs in the upper 60s to low 70s
Cool mornings in the 30s–40s

🌤️ Wednesday
Partly cloudy and mild
Highs in the low to mid-60s

☁️ Thursday – Friday
More clouds move in
Highs in the 50s–60s
🌧️ Slight chance of light rain late week

🌙 Nighttime Temps
Expect cooler evenings with lows staying in the 30s–40s

Good to Know:
✔️ Light jacket mornings
✔️ Comfortable afternoons
✔️ Keep an umbrella handy just in case

🐾 Pet of the Week: Meet Lobo 💙

f you’ve ever wished for a dog who looks at you like you’re his whole world… meet Lobo.

Lobo is a big, handsome boy with an even bigger heart. He’s wonderful with kids, cats, and other dogs, and he’s the kind of pup who stays close, keeps an eye on his people, and flashes that sweet smile when he knows he’s being loved.

Now for the honest part—Lobo is running out of time. His current foster mom is moving into an apartment and sadly can’t take him with her. Through no fault of his own, this gentle soul needs a new foster or forever home.

🚫 No chickens, please
✅ Great with families
✅ Friendly, loyal, and affectionate

Lobo isn’t asking for much—just a couch to nap on, a human to follow around, and a place to finally call home. If you’ve been thinking, “Maybe we could help… even just temporarily,” this might be your sign.

📩 Can you foster or know someone who can?

Sharing this post could be the moment that changes Lobo’s life.

Let’s help this heartthrob find the happy ending he deserves 🐶💙

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Settle in for a tale from Woodward, Oklahoma—a town once wilder than the Wild West itself.

Back when dirt roads outnumbered paved ones, Woodward boasted 23 saloons and 15 brothels. Its nightlife rivaled Dodge City, with parties breaking out nearly everywhere but church.

Statehood brought Prohibition in 1907, but around here, the new laws got only a nod and a wink. Saloons didn’t disappear; they simply went underground, with doors opening to those in the know and whiskey poured strictly for “medicinal purposes.”

Speakeasies like the Dew Drop Inn thrived, and bootleggers grew ever craftier. Enforcement played catch-up in a town that treated rules as suggestions.

Woodward’s spirit was never really tamed. Even after Prohibition ended, its legendary streak carried on—proof you can outlaw the bottle, but never human nature.

Cheers to a town where the stories—and the spirit—never die.

At fourteen, I learned the secret recipe of life in Woodward, Oklahoma: root beer floats and small-town lies. 

Ballard’s Drugs on Main Street was community central — a place where secrets and soda were served in equal measure, and change was as rare as a third stoplight. 

One summer, a mysterious stranger named Levi appeared, bringing stories of the 1947 tornado and a quiet warning about storms — both real and emotional. 

When news hit that the old post office would be demolished, the town bristled at change. 

That night, as a fierce storm rolled in, Levi shared haunting stories from Woodward’s past, and then quietly disappeared, leaving a hopeful note. 

Ballard’s eventually closed, but the memories and lessons from those nights — and those floats — still linger. 

In Woodward, stories outlast the soda fizz — and a little sweetness always matters.

William Blake, better known as Tulsa Jack, was the infamous outlaw who once terrorized the early 1890s Oklahoma Territory with a string of audacious train and bank robberies.

After joining Bill Doolin’s notorious “Oklahombres,” Tulsa Jack became a legend following the violent 1893 shootout in Ingalls that left three U.S. Deputy Marshals dead.

His notoriety grew so large that authorities once jailed a lookalike by mistake, while the real Jack hid out in Major County.

On April 4, 1895, a posse led by Marshal William Bartling Murrill cornered him, ending his criminal saga in a fierce gunfight.

Though the era of explosively robbing trains ended with his death, Blake’s legend lingers — a cautionary tale that every generation finds its own outlaws, whether with revolvers, schemes, or spreadsheets.

Sometimes, the best advice is simply: Don’t get caught.

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