Read the people who cover this every day
This chapter is not a newspaper and does not want to be one. It files records requests and keeps an archive. The daily work of covering Claremore is done by the newsrooms below, several of them nonprofit and under-funded, and the single most useful thing a reader can do is subscribe to one.
Covering Claremore and Oklahoma
Links only. Nothing on this page is republished, excerpted or summarised.
Claremore Progress
The local paper of record for Rogers County.
Oklahoma Watch
Nonprofit investigative newsroom covering Oklahoma government.
The Frontier
Oklahoma nonprofit investigative newsroom.
Why we link instead of republish
Local newsrooms are paid by attention. An aggregator that lifts a paragraph and keeps the reader on its own page takes that attention and gives nothing back, and then the newsroom shrinks and there is less reporting for everyone — including for us, because most of what a records request confirms was first noticed by a reporter.
So the rule here is absolute: link out, never republish. The only documents hosted on this site are public records, which belong to the public already.
If you are a reporter, a nonprofit or a resident group working on something here, the archive and the request pipeline are yours to use, and we will file on your behalf if a request under your own name would cost you something. Get in touch.