Chris Peters

Chris Peters is the founder and editor of The Stillwegian, covering Stillwater and Payne County with a mix of storytelling, photography, and local insight. A Stillwegian since 2008, he’s passionate about connecting community through local news.

Location Stillwater, OK

Number of Articles 292

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Chris Peters's Work 292 Articles

2026 Elections - Aug 17, 2026 Local officials line up against SQ 844. Stillwegian readers reject both state questions

AI-generated illustration of a hand holding a blue pen over a paper ballot reading "State Question," with unmarked boxes next to "Yes" and "No."

Nineteen elected officials and three candidates answered The Stillwegian's survey ahead of the Aug. 25 runoff. Readers, polled separately, opposed 844 and 846 alike.

by Chris Peters

Sports - Aug 11, 2026 International Shipping Delays Strickland Turf, Fall Leagues Relocate

Empty concrete infield pad at a Strickland Park ballfield in Stillwater, with dugouts, light poles and a chain-link fence in the foreground.

Youth teams will play at the Sanborn softball fields instead, while adult fall leagues are put on hold

by Chris Peters

Weekend Brief - Aug 09, 2026 Seven things on the new DA's to-do list

District Attorney Jeremiah Gregory speaks at a podium beside a Stillwater Frontier Rotary Club banner on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, in Stillwater.

Plus: 17 of 22 officials told me how they'll vote on SQ 844 and 846

by Chris Peters

Stillwater City Council - Aug 06, 2026 Stillwater proclaims Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month, advances rewritten noise ordinance

Mayor Will Joyce hands Allie Williams, who uses a power wheelchair, a proclamation for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month in front of a Stillwater, Oklahoma backdrop.

New noise permit rules, and a renewed a call for citizen board volunteers

by Chris Peters

Stillwater Utilities Authority - Aug 05, 2026 SUA approves Boomer Lake Station demolition contract, new energy credit rate

Exterior view of the vacant Boomer Lake Station power plant, a decommissioned natural gas-fired steam turbine facility, showing its rusted smokestacks and blue sign in Stillwater.

Trustees hired an engineering firm to plan the plant's removal and approved a program letting large customers buy renewable energy certificates through GRDA

by Chris Peters

Nonprofits - Aug 04, 2026 63% of Payne County foster children are placed outside the county. A Stillwater nonprofit is trying to change that.

A modern, single-story building with a dark facade and a blue "Lions Meadows of Hope" sign above the entrance, photographed at dusk with a clear blue sky.

Lions Meadows of Hope is one of five agencies statewide selected to participate in Oklahoma's new Kinship Navigation Program

by Chris Peters

Community - Aug 03, 2026 Stillwater's P.E.O. sisterhood steps into the open with inaugural community walk

Participants in P.E.O.'s Walk Today for Women Tomorrow walk past route markers at Block 34 in Stillwater on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026, with the Block 34 sign visible in the background.

Six local chapters took to downtown streets Saturday in the inaugural Walk Today for Women Tomorrow

by Chris Peters

Weekend Brief - Aug 02, 2026 The new DA isn't waiting

District Attorney Jeremiah Gregory, holding a stack of files, smiles while talking with a man outside the district courtroom after his swearing-in July 31, 2026, at the Payne County Courthous

Why I won't report on court cases — and who could

by Chris Peters