Muskogee Looks To Clean Up Ahead Of Spring Azalea Festival

The City of Muskogee is encouraging people to make the town look its best ahead of the annual Azalea Festival.

Friday, March 25th 2022, 5:00 pm

By: Dustin Stone, Matt Rahn

TULSA, Oklahoma -

The City of Muskogee is encouraging people to make the town look its best ahead of the annual Azalea Festival.

City Leaders in Muskogee say they're holding a city-wide cleanup event through Saturday to get the town looking its best ahead of the popular Azaela Festival in Honor Heights Park. Leaders are asking any groups, clubs, or organizations to get together and help clean up neighborhoods as folks from all over the state come to town for the festival.

The Waste Management Community Landfill will host free dump days during this cleanup. The city says the brush and limb collection site at Hatbox will also accept debris for free. The Azalea Festival is on 40 acres of manicured gardens and has over 30,000 azaleas. It takes place during the entire month of April.

Dustin Stone

Dustin joined the News On 6 team in 2000 as a video tape and master control operator. In 2003, he became a live truck operator. During his time in that role, he covered several national stories including the space shuttle Columbia tragedy, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Moore tornado and the Joplin tornado. After 11 years in that position, Dustin became the station's master control supervisor until 2018 when he moved back into the news department as the news operations manager.