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07/01/2025

📢 🚨 Hottest Businesses be on the lookout out for your certificates 📢 🚨 The Beckham County Record

06/13/2025

Fathers Day drawing Winner! Thank you for submitting your dads for our Father's Day Edition! Thank you to our wonderful advertisers and sponsors of our gift basket!
Fred's Steakhouse
Mountain Man’s Axe Throwing & Grub
Pedro's Mexican Grill
H2O Bait Tackle & More
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Fred's Steakhouse

06/11/2025

Cheyenne Ridge Apartments now available!

Check out this rental listing in Cheyenne!

06/09/2025

Tell us who the Hottest in Beckham County is!

Survey link in comments.

06/05/2025

The weather is heating up (or at least it's trying to) and its time once again to decide which businesses in Beckham Counry (Elk City, Sayre, Erick and Sweetwater) are the "Hottest"
Please fill out this survey, and share it with your friends before June 20th when we will tally up the winners 🏆

Link in comments.

05/28/2025

Fathers day is in just a few short weeks!
Share pictures or stories below for a chance to be featured in our upcoming special. Must include names.

05/27/2025

Time to honor the dad's in our life! Share a picture of your dad and give us his name. We will publish them in our June 14th edition!

05/09/2025

04/28/2025

Share a picture of your mom for our mothers day edition and be entered into our prize drawing!!

04/24/2025

Southwest Playhouse’s “Clue” is to Die For—Literally

Excerpt of a review by BCR Staff Writer Jeff Johnson.

Tucked away in a repurposed livestock sale barn in Clinton, Oklahoma—because of course—lies one of the sharpest, sassiest, and most side-splitting productions this side of Broadway (or at least Weatherford). When the Southwest Playhouse rolled the dice on *Clue*, they didn’t just cast the usual suspects—they threw a party full of murder, mayhem, and marvelously timed mischief.

At the helm of this mystery madness was first-time director Natalie Houck—whose debut performance proved she’s got the chops to turn chaos into choreography. Pacing? Tight. Blocking? Clever. Homage to the original movie? Faithful without being a copycat. She didn’t just direct a play—she conducted a symphony of suspicion.
Each character came dressed to kill—figuratively and occasionally literally. Colonel Mustard (John Williams) blustered around with the swagger of a man who’s both armed and absolutely confused. Miss Scarlett (Gina Jones), gliding through scenes in a red dress that seemed to carry its own spotlight, was impossible to ignore. Mr. Green (Wesley Javorsky) was green with nerves, guilt, or both—who knows? Mrs. Peacock (Sheri McCoy) strutted in full-feathered glory, flapping like high society one martini deep. And Mrs. White (Julie K. Barnett), dressed in black—because irony is the best color—glided through scenes with deadly precision. Scene-stealing cameos from Yvette the Maid (Gini Smith) and the Cook (Karolyn Koester) reminded us that fewer lines sometimes lead to louder applause.

Southwestplayhouse.com
Show runs 4-25 through 4-27 and 5-2 through 5-4

04/21/2025

Great shout out for Fred's Steakhouse, one our loyal advertisers!!

04/18/2025

Mothers Day is nearly upon us, please share a picture of you and your wonderful mom with us for the paper!! Please include your mother's name with the photo. Publishes May 10th.