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Local programs, program directors vie for top Main Street awards
(Oklahoma City, Okla.) – The Oklahoma Main Street Center announced today the finalists for Main Street Program of the Year and the Watonga Bob Shoemaker Award. All finalists will be honored and the winners announced during the 34th Annual Main Street Awards Banquet on Sept. 24 at 6:30 pm in Oklahoma City. “To oversee a Main Street program is hard work and our local program directors do an…
August Family-Friendly Events in the OKC Metro
August is here, which means summer is coming to a close. Soon you’ll be sending your kiddos off to school. Finish the summer with a bang with this list of fun activities throughout the metro. If you’re looking for back-to-school resources from first-day printables to area school calendars.
Edmond warns Lake Arcadia visitors to keep an eye out for blue-green algae
The algae was identified near Lake Arcadia’s dam. City officials say this won’t affect Edmond’s drinking water, which comes in part from the lake. But the algae could cause problems for people trying to cool down in and on the water. The toxins produced by blue-green algae can irritate the skin, cause stomach troubles, and at high doses lead to difficulty breathing.
Officials announce $90 million plan to rescue threatened fish: 'We can delist the species in approximately 30 years'
A minnow native to the United States has been listed as threatened since 1998, but a new plan could help its populations recover. According to High Plains Public Radio, the Arkansas River shiners used to live across the Southern Great Plains, but now they only live in the Canadian River in Western Oklahoma and Eastern New Mexico.
DeVuyst selected as CattleWoman of the Year Sheperd named Honorary CattleWoman
NORMAN – Dr. Cheryl DeVuyst has been named CattleWoman of the Year by the Oklahoma CattleWomen’s Association’s. DeVuyst received the honor at the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association Convention held July 19 at Norman’s Embassy Suites Hotel. DeVuyst and her husband Eric own DeVuyst Ranch, a cow-calf...
PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL – Melvin Childs and Presidential THC have become the Sooner State’s unflinching Cannabis Brand
Melvin Childs is nothing if not resourceful. Born and bred in Oklahoma City, he is a man who has learned, through trial and error, to scale all sorts of walls—from radio advertising to theater and movie production to memoir writing. His latest endeavor is the production of a cannabis brand called Presidential THC—“home of the world’s strongest cannabis products.”
An Oklahoma district court is among the slowest in the nation. It's led to delayed justice
Kamrin Green’s middle school students were supposed to research an injustice and find a solution. That assignment was put on hold as Green wondered whether the assignment would run afoul of House Bill 1775. It took 2 ½ years to get an answer, as an injunction that would temporarily bar implementation of the...
Oklahoma Will Soon Begin Losing Daylight
As summer turns into fall, Oklahoma will soon begin to lose hours of daylight. In the summer, Oklahomans see the sun rise in the early hours of the morning after 6 a.m. and setting after 8 p.m. But as summer ends, Oklahoma slowly starts having less and less hours of daylight.