An agreement at Sept. 24's Wagoner County Economic Development Authority meeting has put the future existence of the long-awaited downtown Wagoner project called The Junction back on track.

"Any type of retaliatory statements won't be tolerated," WCEDA chairman Chris Leffingwell said at the start of the meeting's discussion of committing $400,000 to the project's construction, which has a total budget of around $1.4 million.

However, by the end of the discussion and unanimous vote in favor, only smiles and handshakes were exchanged among board members and Mayor of Wagoner Dalton Self.

This, after the last vote in February was tabled by tense disagreements stemming from a contested quarter-acre land deal in Wagoner that the city has since sued a county employee over.

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