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Tonja Beatty pours syrup bottles in to a machine that lines them up and fills them at Griffin Foods. Many will end up at Muskogee area stores, along with Griffin jams, jellies and mustards.
Staff photo by Jennifer Lyles /


Syrup bottles run through a machine where they are filled and labled at Griffin Foods.
Staff photo by Jennifer Lyles /


$AVING YOU MONEY: Many locally made items can cut your bills

Such products could include Sizzler fruit spreads with pepper seasoning, and seafood seasoning under the Lobster Bay Co. label.

The variety of products made at Muskogee’s Georgia-Pacific paper plant range in prices, said Gill Luton, public relations team leader for the plant. Such items include Angel Soft toilet paper, Mardi Gras napkins and Sparkle paper towels.

Luton said the Angel Soft is a “good product at a good price.”

At one Muskogee discount store, a 12-pack of double-ply, 352-sheet Angel Soft cost $1 less than Charmin and about the same price as American Fare.

Soft’n’Gentle toilet paper, sold in limited stores, “also is a good bargain,” Luton said.

For those who buy in bulk, Sam’s Club carries POM paper towels and tissue made at the Muskogee plant, Luton said.

Seabolt said buying such products has an indirect benefit to Muskogee’s economy.

“It eventually goes to Georgia-Pacific Corporation, which pays employees’ salaries,” she said.

Some area-made products are specialty items and may cost more than other products.

Alan Hiller, owner of Muskogee Beverage said Stone Bluff Wine, made near Haskell, is one of its more popular wines.

“But it is more expensive,” he said, figuring that Stone Bluff and other Oklahoma wineries do not produce the volume that larger vintners in California do.

Michael Harp, chef and hospitality coordinator for Stone Bluff Cellars, said most Oklahoma wineries are small boutique operations, so their products will cost more.

She said Oklahoma wines cost less than those made at California boutique wineries, where the product is made and the grapes are grown on site, could charge as much as $40 or $50.

“We try to be in the middle,” she said.



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