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…filming of "August: Osage County" in the Bartlesville area … One of the settings for the film has a long history for a Bartlesville family. The home was in Andy Novak's family for decades until the 1980s. Both Andy and her daughter spent time there as children. … Her great-grandfather's brother built the big home in the 1940s. The setup was a wonderland for children with a large yard, a creek, and maybe best of all, a wrap-around porch on both stories. "You could play and roller skate or whatever you wanted to do all the way around the house. It was just very unique and fun." …
News On 6 uncovered one of the extras for the new movie August: Osage County - under wraps - right in the middle of Tulsa.
Kerry Godfrey is part of Hollywood now.
Friday, Godfrey was working on a well-worn, rusty 1965 Dodge, that's going to be driven for a movie by one of the stars. The thing is it's not actually a well-worn, rusty truck.
The thing is it's not actually a well worn, rusty truck.
"Most of the time we try to make things look better, in this case, we're downgrading it," Godfrey said.
Katie Keleher told FOX23 that she spotted George Clooney while she was eating dinner at Frank and Lola's in Bartlesville.
"My eyes got really big and I started freaking out," said Katie. She said Clooney was eating dinner at a table near hers.
"I could hear him talking and his voice sounded just like it does on t.v.," said Katie.
A resident in Bartlesville made a big celebrity sighting Thursday.
George Clooney snapped a picture with a fan in a Bartlesville store.
The A-lister is a producer on the film, August: Osage County, which is filming now in Bartlesville and Pawhuska.
During Frank’s Flag Campaign 2012, more than 4,000 U.S. flags were placed across Bartlesville and along the primary streets by Friends of Frank Phillips Home board members, friends, church groups and schools. The flags covered more than 13 actual miles of city streets, or 26 total miles of flags (both sides).
Houston's ConocoPhillips, the oil giant formed ten years ago by merging Conoco Inc., with Phillips Petroleum, will spin off its refinery business effective tomorrow, May 1, 2012. ... The upstream company, which will retain the ConocoPhillps name and continue to headquarter in Houston, is the largest independent oil and gas in the US. The refining and distribution company will be named Phillips 66 and will also be headquartered in Houston. ... There is as yet no word about job losses here in Houston or at the former headquarters company towns of Bartlesville (Phillips) and Ponca City (Conoco), Oklahoma.
The former home of Bartlesville Office Supply, the Kress building, has recently been the target of a renovation and rejuvenation project. ... "When the Kress stores went under, they knew their buildings were architecturally significant," Oldroyd said. The company donated all of their blue prints and plans to The National Building Museum in Washington D.C. The builders also took photos whenever they made any structural changes to the building and sent them to the corporate office as proof of those changes. Oldroyd contacted the museum and was able to have all the blue prints and pictures sent to him. "It was a tremendous tool in seeing what the building was originally like," Oldroyd said.
Popping up all over Bartlesville in recent weeks have been lily-like plants, their pink and aromatic blossoms held aloft by stems — but with no leaves to be seen. Area residents have been asking what these leafless flowers are, so 2News went to Green Thumb Nursery on Nowata Road to find out. "They are Lycoris," said a nursery employee Wednesday morning, explaining though they are locally known as 'Surprise Lilies' or 'Naked Ladies.' She said every year one or two people call asking about these leafless flowers — but in truth, they are not leafless.
Following a design workshop and individual design consultations presented by Downtown Bartlesville Inc., of which 30 businesses and property owners attended, there has been a recent flurry of activity. The workshop focused on adding curb appeal to a downtown building by doing simple renovations. It showed how the removal of fake façade elements can reveal prominent architectural features, what the simple cleaning of dirt and grime from a building can reveal or what a new coat of paint can do to update the look.
For more than three months, Prusinowski endured wind, rain and triple-digit temperatures to make a 2,000-mile journey on foot in order to connect with the Lenape Indians, also known as Delaware Indians, and their migration from the Delaware Valley in the northeast to their final stopping point in the Midwest. His solo trek began at his hometown of Fishtown, Penn., and ended recently in Bartlesville.
A Philadelphia man will celebrate Wednesday night after walking 2 000 miles from Penn Treaty Park to Bartlesville Oklahoma to draw attention to ... "The Trail of Tears"
Police arrested a Bartlesville woman Saturday evening after the residents of a house on Seminole Avenue came home to find the pink pajama-clad woman in their house destroying their possessions... asked by the residents what she was doing in their house replied, " I don't know!" ... had broken a few "very expensive" porcelain Indian collectables and had poured "an entire case of water" on a flat screen television ... said she went into the house and "tore (expletive) up" because she was angry from all the voices.
ConocoPhillips spokesman John Roper said he anticipates "most people will keep their jobs" through the split into a company that produces oil and another that refines it into gasoline and other fuels, although he couldn't address specifics. He said there will "have to be a wall" between the new companies, but that "they will co-exist." "Oklahoma is part of our history and it's key to ConocoPhillips," Roper said. [Until it's not.]
Consistent with ConocoPhillips previously stated strategies and focus on value creation for its shareholders, ConocoPhillips board of directors has approved pursuing the separation of the companys Refining & Marketing and Exploration & Production businesses into two stand-alone, publicly traded corporations via a tax-free spin of the refining and marketing business to ConocoPhillips (COP) shareholders. ... Consistent with our strategy to create industry-leading shareholder value, we have concluded that two independent companies focused on their respective industries will be better positioned to pursue their individually focused business strategies, said Jim Mulva, chairman and chief executive officer. Both companies will continue to benefit from the size and scale of their significant high-quality asset bases and free cash flow generation, allowing them to invest and create shareholder value in a changing environment. [Ummmmm....]
Speaking with individuals inside, police learned there had been a party at the house when a small group of people — one of whom was later identified as Morrow — showed up wearing "fitted" hats, not "snapback" hats as the rest of the party goers in the house wore, according to a witness. He told police it was then, during a fight about their wearing fitted hats, that Morrow pulled out a gun. He said at this point the group was kicked out of the house and that was when he heard the shots and the house was hit with bullets.
Eastland Shopping Center in Bartlesville celebrated the 4th on Friday evening with a fireworks display that was interrupted by a small grass fire. Officials from the fireworks company in charge of the show say a multi-shot cake malfunctioned and the shot came out the side of the tube instead of being launched into the sky.
Former U.S. Marine Lance Corporal William Ely is spending his 4th of July weekend braving the heat - and overcoming injury - to support service men and women back on the front lines. Ely injured his back and legs during training and was unable to follow his unit as they were deployed to Afghanistan. Ely started the morning collecting care packages with the Blue Star Mothers. The care packages will go to support members of his unit. Then if was off and running under the hot July sun. "He had to learn to walk again, so to be able to run and do this is pretty amazing," said Angel Barrows, President of the Bartlesville Blue Star Mothers. Ely then ran through Ochelata along U.S. Highway 75. The Marine was escorted by many veterans and Patriot Guard Riders, finishing up his run in the Ochelata 4th of July parade.
Pictures of an unhealthy horse in Bartlesville are spreading across the internet. The owner says his reputation is being ruined because people are accusing him of animal cruelty, but that's just not the case. "She got bred by an accident, she's 24 years old and now she's having to nurse a foal, and the foal is pulling her down," says Cecil Moles about the horse in question named Baby.
Thomas alleges in the lawsuit that he was advised by some superiors that the BPD was a "paramilitary organization" ...
A local woman and her 13-year-old son have been arrested in connection with an incident that allegedly has left a 5-year-old boy in critical condition.... "... alleged that a 13-year-old living in the home had picked the boy up over his head and slammed him to the ground as well as having the child fight other children." ... [Mother] was baby-sitting the victim along with four other children at the residence.... the five were in addition to her own four children... seven children total were taken into protective custody....
A Bartlesville woman died early Saturday from injuries sustained a week before in a fall near the Caney River. David Cox said his wife, Deborah Cox, 60, stepped off the Pathfinder Parkway — near a steep trail leading to the river — and tumbled down the bank onto some rocks while the couple was at the end of Delaware Avenue, south of the river, watching their grandchildren fish around 4:15 p.m. on June 3.
The caller said he was being chased by a white sport utility vehicle — adding that he himself had a flat tire put was not stopping. Police sent to the area saw an older SUV on Adams go through the intersection with Dewey Avenue and then the light at Cherokee Avenue, but saw no SUV following it or any flat tire on the vehicle. At the request of police, the RV's driver — identified as Madera — pulled over and spoke with police. According to police, they found him "confused and incoherent" and found him telling conflicting stories. He seemed extremely nervous, said police. [Meth, of course]
I recently had the opportunity to see The Tree of Life while sitting two rows in front of Terrence Malick's 99-year-old mother. The special screening took place in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, a small town north of Tulsa.
Cabler leads a team of volunteers [from Bartlesville] who use chainsaws to clear debris. He says removing downed trees typically leads to more meaningful conversations when people are in great times of need. "That's what's really saddened us a lot of times," he shares. "You'll run into people who no one has even come to check on them, or their neighbors haven't even checked on them. Neighbors don't know each other anymore a lot of times."
Cox said however six rotations or instances of wall clouds were seen in Washington County, among them being one spotted over Food Pyramid on U.S. Highway 75 south of Bartlesville, one above downtown Bartlesville, another above downtown Dewey, one north of Dewey and one north of Ramona.
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