Best Area Attractions
Member Spotlight Simple Simon’s Pizza
This week’s Member Spotlight is on Simple Simon’s Pizza, owned and operated by Marty & Dana Chaney. The same month she retired from teaching in 2018, Dana and Marty were approached with the opportunity to become owners of the Simple Simons Pizza in Tishomingo. She always knew that after retiring she would be working at…
Member Spotlight Scotty’s Blue River One Stop
This week’s Member Spotlight is on Scotty’s Blue River One Stop. Scotty McCarthick bought the business on Bullard Chapel Road from Dean and Debbie Arnold in 1992 and built the store that you see now in 1996. The convenience store, bait shop and restaurant caters to trout fishermen and women with more trout fishing bait…
Spotlight Sara’s Heartfelt Flowers & Gifts
This week’s Spotlight is on Sara’s Heartfelt Flowers & Gifts! Sara Holmes took ownership of the business from Oma Dell Burns on March 1, 2019. Holmes mother owned a flower shop when she was young and then she worked with Burns for about a year, learning the trade of floral design and customer care along…
Member Spotlight Remedies+
This week’s Member Spotlight is on Remedies+, owned and operated by Rodney and Wanda Gray. Remedies+ was an idea born in the first month of marijuana legalization in Oklahoma. After Rodney’s battle with cancer and discovering the medicinal uses that cannabis offers, the need to be part of the industry increased even more. Wanda was…
Member Spotlight Our Neighbor’s Cupboard
This week’s Member Spotlight is on Our Neighbor’s Cupboard (ONC), a local food pantry located at 106 N. Burris Avenue in Tishomingo. The 501©3 has been in operation since May of 2017 and is completely volunteer-operated. It is a client-choice pantry which means that clients get to ‘grocery shop’ for the items that they want…
Member Spotlight Old Silo Winery
This week’s Member Spotlight is on Old Silo Winery! The Winery is owned and operated by Jim and Michele Reilly and opened in September 2018. The Reillys were living in Dallas, TX when their son, Tom, enrolled at OU in 2006. The various drives through the lovely Oklahoma countryside to visit their son spurred an…
Member Spotlight Nikole’s Country Store
This week’s Member Spotlight is on Nikole’s Country Store in downtown Tishomingo! This store has been a dream for Johnston County Clerk, Kathy Ross, for a long time and is a project she wanted to have during her retirement. Opportunity came knocking at the door about four years earlier than expected and Nikole’s opened in…
Member Spotlight Tishomingo Motor Sales
This week’s Member Spotlight is on Tishomingo Motor Sales! This business was started in 1963 by Earl Northcutt and son Sandy Northcutt, the business expanded to Kingston in the 1980’s and opened the Madill store in 1994. A year later, the Kingston store was consolidated with Madill and it has been that way ever since.…
Member Spotlight Murray on Main
This week’s Chamber Member Spotlight is Murray on Main (MOM)! Murray State College, already an anchor and economic driver for the greater Tishomingo area, desired to have a presence on Main Street. They also wanted to make a difference downtown in a time when many buildings sat vacant. When MSC President Joy McDaniel and others…