http://www.normantranscript.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:15:38 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_312021540 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_312021540 Jay and Shandi Williams purchased an abandoned home and 12 acres at State Highway 9 and 192nd Avenue SE this past summer. The home came complete with a large swimming pool, old bath house and a nearby crypt containing the grave of one of Chicago's most famous underworld figures. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:16:00 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_311021601 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_311021601 The last two weeks of October turned out to be a perfect time for my vacation.I stayed at a little place I know that boasts the most comfortable beds in the world. Situated on a tree-lined bike route with more bike trails nearby, it's also within easy walking or biking distance of art museums and galleries, theaters and superb concert facilities offering a broad range of top-notch musical performances. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:15:27 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_305011540 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_305011540 It's 1:30 a.m. and Super Target's night stockers are busy replenishing the massive store's shelves after a busy day of shopping. They take a break long enough to listen as two business leaders make their case encouraging workers to invest in Norman's United Way campaign. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:15:24 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_298021527 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_298021527 Editor's note: Professional photos of Richard Delbridge's home and artwork can be viewed at http://www.johnthomasphotography.net/delbridge2/8132009.htmlCOLE -- Richard Delbridge can't stand to see good materials go to waste. Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:44:05 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_297054406 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_297054406 "It ain't over till it's over," quipped Yogi Berra in the 1970s when his baseball team trailed 9 1/2 games behind another team, but came back and won the division anyway.Baseball is the penultimate American sport that, to many, brings back many fond, and sometimes not so fond, memories of childhood sandlot games, watching a favorite team take the World Series in seven games in October and just plain old-fashioned competition. Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:15:25 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_291021531 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_291021531 The hallway walls, meeting rooms and offices at Thunderbird Clubhouse's new east Norman home are full of artwork done by club members, current and past. Vivid paintings tell the story of adults recovering from mental illness. Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:15:40 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_290021542 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_290021542 This time of year is great. Not too hot, not too cold and, oh yeah, my favorite holiday that doesn't involve beer and the color green is coming up. The only thing I object to about Halloween is that it's technically only one night of fun; with St. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:15:23 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_284021528 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_284021528 When members of the southbound construction crew hammered their line's final spike at Purcell shortly after 5 p.m. April 26, 1887, the preferred mode of transportation in central Oklahoma changed. Less than two months later, the first passenger trains headed north through Norman at about 1 p. Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:15:45 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_283021558 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_283021558 I've been bamboozled. I've been had. Definitely been buffaloed. I'd even go so far as to say I've been snookered.For decades the magic of television has made us believe that everything is easily wrapped up in 30 minutes or less. Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:15:32 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_277021538 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_277021538 Henry Bellmon was my kind of politician. He worked hard. Tackled the tough challenges and didn't mind spending public money if the priorities were right. He didn't consider government the enemy.He minced few words. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:16:03 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_276021616 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_276021616 I may be the only columnist left in America who hasn't written a piece on why so many Americans are angry. It's a slam-dunk column topic, a chance to fill the space quickly while venting one's own anger with pithy descriptions of the problems we're facing and the people we feel are responsible. Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:15:20 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_270021522 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_270021522 "Daddy, tell me a story." It was a bedtime ritual at my home years ago. Sometimes, it was the same childhood tale, spun a different way. On other nights, it was a new yarn altogether.There was the one about a young Andy volunteering to retrieve a red-meat, Rush Springs watemelon out of my grandparents' car only to splatter it on the front porch. Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:15:24 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_263021526 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_263021526 Television shows starting and stopping were the news of the week. The curtain went up for "Jay Leno" and came down on "Guiding Light." The hype for both was nearly overwhelming. Some of us tend to remember stages in our lives by the timelines of television shows. Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:34:42 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_262043507 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_262043507 In these troubled economic times, everyone points to the economy as the underlying root cause for all sorts of bad things. Most of these claims, I'll take at face value. The economy is causing the loss of millions of jobs? Undeniably. Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:15:25 +0000 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_256021528 http://www.normantranscript.com/columns/local_story_256021528 A lone bagpiper played a simple dirge Saturday morning outside Elm Street Parking Garage on the OU campus as four generations of the Sullivan family passed by into the Catlett Music Center. The large, multi-talented family was at home on the Sharp Hall stage.