Hometown Matters https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Voters Face Fullest Ballot in Recent Memory in the April 2026 Election. Scott Lesh Is seeking Two Seats Benton Kelley: Every Man Should Have His Day Spring 2026 Construction Date Set for Long Promised First and Osage Right Turn Lane, Brueggemann Says Historic Frst Baptist Church Reopens to New Life and Tumultuous Welcome of Blended Community Stories of Former Leaders Show How Past Politicians Shaped Pacific Mayor Sticks with City Attorney in Three-Three Tie As Aldermen Call for Her Ouster Mayor Picks a Winner: Ed Gass Unanimously Approved to Fill Ward One Vacancy While the Public Waits for Franklin County’s Ruling on Data Centers, Beltline Offers Pacific Officials a Free Ride to View a Data Center in Atlanta Officials Update Issues – Admin Search, Committee Vacancy, Budget and Artificial Intelligence Tim Husereau, a Voice in the Wilderness for an Illness That Seems Invisible Turkey Day: How a Catawissa Farmer Put Pacific On the Twentieth Century Industrial Map What to Say When the City Attorney Tells the Mayor and Others to Withhold Info From Aldermen Hidden in Plain Sight, Pacific’s Most Lasting Railroad Heritage Lies not in Trains But in Bridges Nick Olmstead: The Man Who Lit Up Sand Mountain Data Center Meeting Draws Crowd, Reveals Disconnect Between Mayor and Aldermen  Advisory Boil Water Notice Reveal’s Glitch in City Emergency Notification System – Only Citizens Who Previously Signed Up for Notices Were Called Aldermen Target Neighborhood Speeders and Overgrown Commercial Property BOA Passes Un-Balanced 2026 Budget / Faced with Angry Blast from Tourism Commissioner, Disagreement Over Contingency Funds BOA Rejects Presley Appointment, Balances Budget, Recognizes Historic First Baptist Restoration  The Progressive 1900 National Program That Placed Pacific at the Front of Educating Black Teachers BOA Unanimous: No More Secrets, Emails To Be Un-Redacted; No DNAs Without BOA Approval; BOA to Oversee All Confidential Info; Specialists to be Hired Eagle Scout Caden Price Joins Illustrious Group of Young Leaders Building City Amenities Jeffrey White Skatepark Nears Construction / Lesh Concerned About Future of Children’s Pavilion City Administrator Search Moves Forward, Aldermen Quiet as One Man Runs the Show Mystery of a Wind Up Christmas Train That Lingered for 77 Years The Meramec River, 200 Years of Contest With People and Cities Along its Bank Alderman Calls it Quits / Brings Number Of Seasoned Leaders Lost to City Government to Eight Women’s History Month Honorees Who Shaped Pacific Parks, Public Schools and Planning & Zoning The Community Invited to Celebrate Reopening of Historic First Baptist Skate Park Construction Approved: Contingent on Final Plan. If Costs Run Over, City Can Back Out Emergency Management Manager Request to Ban Parking Near the Post Office Building Alarms Residents: Why Would We Do This? Through 73 Years of Delight, Decay and Rotating Caretakers, a Community Tradition Lives On Data Center Talks Prompt Usually Submissive BOA to Air Grievances on NDAs and Transparency Cancelled P&Z Meeting on Data Center Captures Attention of State Senators Tuesday BOA Meeting Agenda Amended / Data Center Developer To Speak Cemeteries Steeped in History Not In Danger from Proposed Data Park, Property Owner Says Emergency Management Director Taps Full Kit and Caboodle of Notification Programs – IPAWS to Door-to-Door and Everything in Between Aldermen Approve Skatepark Attached to Children’s Pavilion / Kelley Says Public Should be Informed Resident Says Hard Questions and Transparency Would Bring Powerful Answer To Data Center Talks Margaret Murphy 1896-1986 / Old Rock Church Legend / Every Archbishop and Auxiliary Bishop Who Visited Here Knew Her Name Three-time Oklahoma City Official and Former Walmart Executive Accepts Role of Pacific City Administrator Aldermen To Adopt Food Truck Rules to Enable Food Trucks / Focus on Consumer Safety Does Somebody Need To Be Saying This Outloud? A McLaren Farm Data Center in Franklin County Might Be Pacific’s Worst Nightmare And It May Be in the Offing Need Clear and Independently Verified Information On Data Center Data Center Rumors Light Up Local Facebook Pages / City Wrestles with Non Disclosure 1926 Discovery that Pacific Silica Sand was 98 Percent Pure Was a High Point in History 2026 Election / Incumbents Seek Re-election / Mayor, Two Aldermen, and Police Chief Face Challenges Eagles Are Asking the Community to Pitch In Again to Pay Off Student’s Lunch Debt. BBQ This Saturday Ignoring FEMA, City Sticks To Its Guns, Says Citizens Should Sign Up to Receive Emergency Alerts Defying FEMA, City Sticks To Its Guns, Says Citizens Should Sign Up to Receive Emergency Alerts