Stillwater Lokal Life

03/25/2025

Say Hello to Stillwater's Great Eight! That's right: Mutt Madness is now in the finals. And Man this is getting hard! Eight cute dogs have been eliminated, eight remain to see who will get Stillwater's top spot!

Head on over and vote (no cost to vote)!
https://www.stillwaterlokallife.com/mutt-madness/

02/14/2025

Newsletter #15 is waiting in your inbox if you’ve already subscribed. 👏

🌱💣 Wildflower seed bomb
🐶 Bingo and Bluey are coming
💌 Valentine’s Day date ideas
🛍️ Downtown online shops

We wish you a warm and lovely Valentine's Day!

02/10/2025

Does anyone know of a married couple in Stillwater celebrating their 50+ year anniversary this month? If so, I'd love to talk to them. Thanks!

01/30/2025

Issue No. 8 is off to the printer and lands tomorrow, Friday, Jan. 31!

This one’s extra special—it’s the first with professional journalist Ms. Deb Parker contributing. It’s packed with local stories I hope you’ll enjoy.

Didn’t know we print a physical newspaper? 📰 Yes, we do. And you can get it delivered to your door right here: https://www.stillwaterlokallife.com/?ref=lokal-life-newsletter #/portal/signup

Your support helps cover printing costs, contributor fees, and gas—and it means a lot!

P.S. With growing number of subscribers, I may not get all the business drop-offs done until Monday—unless I can recruit a small army of paperboys. (Any takers?) 😅

01/23/2025

Heads up hotmail.com and outlook.com subscribers!

For some reason, the weekly newsletter email that went out at 6 AM has been deferred by hotmail/outlook, so it might have landed in your spam. If you could please move add it as a known contact or drag it into primary, that should help.

Sorry for any inconvenience! This was a bit of a surprise for me as well.

You can also access the latest newsletter here:
https://stillwaterlokallife.beehiiv.com/p/old-books-fresh-pizza-at-old-central-tonight

This Week's News & Events in Stillwater

12/26/2024

It was my pleasure to sit down with Chris and Marin Leafer of Leafer Lodge Christmas Tree Farm earlier this month and learn more about their story. It's so nice to hear about a family that works together to overcome obstacles and realize a dream that brings not only them but their community happiness. I hope you enjoy reading more about them here!

Meet Stillwater residents Chris and Marin Leafer. Together with their daughters, dog Comet, and flock of chickens, they live on a 10-acre woodsy plot in the north-east corner of town. Their home is a welcoming wooden lodge nestled on their land. It's not opulent but welcoming and comfortable. Steppi...

12/26/2024

We hope y'all are having a happy holiday season!

In case you didn't catch our newsletter this morning, there's some interesting things going on in Stillwater during this week in-between Christmas and New Years.

In today's issue:
- Where to ring in the new year 🎉
- Hunters Against Hunger 🍽️
- Meet Arasha 🐈

If you haven't signed up, we'd love to have you. It's free and comes out every Thursday morning:
https://www.stillwaterlokallife.com/what-are-your-nye-plans-2/

12/20/2024

It’s delivery day! issue number seven is here. We hope you all enjoy it and merry Christmas.

12/13/2024

I’m putting together a fun section for Stillwater Lokal Life’s next 📰 newspaper issue and thought it would be great to include "Dear Santa" letters from local kids.

If your children would like to participate, feel free to send their letters to [email protected] by Sunday, Dec 15th. You can include their first names and ages if you’d like.

You can even just send over a picture of the letter, and I'll do my best to transcribe it exactly as they write it. It should be lots of fun!

Thanks and Merry Christmas 🎅🎄

12/05/2024

In today’s Lokal Life Letter:

- Your Thursday night Downtown Festivities Lineup 🎄
- Your Hallmark movie moment at McMurtry! 💘
- Stillwater has a new City Manager 👑
- Breakfast with Santa 🎅🏻

It's chock-full of things going on this week in Stillwater.
Sign up, it's free! We'd love to have ya.

Plays, Parades, Live Music and Community Conviviality!

12/05/2024

Transcend Dance Company is holding a Santa and Grinch picture event this Saturday afternoon, 2 PM - 4 PM! Bring a donation and the pictures are free! More info below:

11/15/2024

To the kind anonymous Stillwater Lokal Life reader who has stopped by the office when I wasn’t in and left this thoughtful blanket for Johnny—thank you for the sweet gift!

As you can see, he’s loving it. :)