Voters in Grove will vote tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov 8th, to approve the Grove City Council’s new ordinance taxing occupants using rooms in motels, hotels and “Recreational Vehicle Parks, a 5% tax (in addition to any and all other excise taxes now in force) to be used by the city fathers to promote TOURISM in Grove. We [...]
Chuck Perry, President of the Grand Lake Association The Grand Lake Association announced today that the American Bass Association’s American Fishing Tour National Championship will be coming to Grand Lake in 2012. “We are delighted to be bringing our American Fishing Tour National Championship to Grand Lake”, said Debra Talley, National Marketing Director for American [...]
Left to right Back Row: Tracy Horton, Stan Starts, Ashley Davidson, Front Row: Brooke Herbst, Diane Hodge, Leah McLain “Ravenscroft” by Don Nigro has been called a psychological drama, a thinking person’s Gothic thriller, a dark comedy that is both funny and frightening, and a modern send-up of the British murder-mystery genre. The Playmakers’ director [...]
City electric crews hung two (2) directional signs this week on Main Street highlighting the Miami hotel district on east Steve Owens Boulevard. The signage reads, “Hotel District” and has an arrow pointing down Steve Owens Boulevard. “The two (2) blank signs were free due to a shipping error. The Miami Convention and Visitor’s Bureau [...]
(Monkey Island, OK –) Shangri-La Golf Club, Resort & Marina General Manager Jason Sheffield has announced the appointment of Renee Diver as Director of Sales. She will be responsible for outside sales, group events and stay-and-play golf packages in addition to marketing responsibilities. “Renee is cheerful, approachable and highly motivated to make potential and existing [...]
The 18th Annual and 10th National Hook N Cook Off hosted by the Grand Lake Area Chamber of Commerce last weekend at beautiful Pelican Landing Resort was a wonderful success. We would like to say “thank you” to everyone who helped make this event happen and to everyone that came out and had some wonderful [...]
Photos courtesy Bob Livesay Photography The Jana Jae Fiddle Camp and Music Fest held over the Labor Day weekend was a huge success with fiddle students of all ages attending from throughout Oklahoma, all the surrounding states of Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas and as far away as Ponchatoula, LA and Copemish, MI. This has become [...]
The Grand Lake Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosting our monthly meeting on September 22nd at Mulberry’s. Our guest speaker will be Joy Justice with NE Career Tech. The Oklahoma Career Tech system has been one of the best in the country and the NE Career Tech has been one of the top in the state of [...]
Amanda Davis, Director of the Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau has filed the following report with her board of directors. “Attached are the recent hotel tax reports. On the first attachment, you will find the fiscal year report and the tabs along the bottom of the spreadsheet will give you the monthly breakdowns by [...]
The Grand Lake Area Chamber had a great business after hours last week at Pine Lodge. Art and June Box hosted the afterhours which had a great turnout and it was a lot of fun. With a luau theme and a cooked pig, there was plenty of great food and a great atmosphere to enjoy everyone’s company. I [...]
