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Choctaw Nation To Honor Choctaw-Irish Connection With Events
DURANT, OK – The Choctaw Nation and Choctaw Cultural Center will hold special events honoring the Choctaw-Irish connection. The Choctaw Cultural Center will host a Choctaw-Irish Connection Celebration on Thursday, August 29, featuring the story of the Irish gift, traditional Choctaw dancing and a concert by the acclaimed Celtic roots band RUNA. Free admission can be reserved by visiting https://chocta.ws/irish-connection.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol searching for suspect throwing rocks, breaking windshields on Indian Nation Turnpike
Oklahoma Highway Patrol investigators are asking for the publics help finding a person who has been throwing rocks off of overpasses on the Indian Nation Turnpike.
Plenty big ticket votes await Oklahomans in November. But one key issue will be missing.
Oklahoma’s November ballot will include many big items to vote on, including our next president, a corporation commissioner and our newest state lawmakers. Disappointingly an option to expand women’s reproductive health access won’t be one. Because regardless of one’s beliefs on abortion access, Oklahoma voters deserve the opportunity to vote on the path forward for […]
Oklahoma Animal Shelters Face Overcrowding As Kennel Operators Offer Discounts, Incentives To Adopt
With animals as young as 8 weeks old at-risk to be euthanized in kennels across the Oklahoma City metro due to overcrowding, shelter owners are working to get as many animals adopted. OKC Animal Welfare says the issue stems from animal surrenders and backyard breeding. Staff and volunteers at OKC...
GRAND Mobile Mental Health Launches Care-A-Van Program
GRAND Mental Health launched a new pilot program on Monday that introduces its services to rural areas in Oklahoma. The pilot program is called ‘GRAND Care-A-Van Mobile Mental Health Access,’ and leaders say it's all about bringing their services to often-forgotten communities. GRAND Mental Health is a certified...
Vote for the best Oklahoma high school football team in Class A-I for 2024 season
The Oklahoma high school football season is right around the corner, but while you wait for Week 0 kickoff, we're asking readers to vote on their favorite team in each class. This year Class A is split into two divisions and Fairview, the most dominate team in recent years, is in Class A-I. Last season the...
Oklahoma parental tax credit has no standards for accreditation
Only accredited private schools qualify for the state’s Parental Choice Tax Credit program, a voucher-like state subsidy for parents to use toward tuition. But schools need only report the name of their accreditor. There is no verification beyond that, and any accreditor goes. Among the schools approved are Goodland...
2 books represent Oklahoma at the National Book Festival
The Great Reads from Great Places initiative features books from across America that represent each states' literary heritage. The National Book Festival celebrates books from every state in Washington, D.C., annually. This year, the festival’s theme was “Books Build Us Up.”. Two books at the festival represented Oklahoma...
Pre-"Twisters:" The Origin of Storm Chasing
How did our modern tornado warning program begin? It started in Oklahoma in 1972 with plucky meteorology students and experimental radars. With the huge success of Twisters this summer and 1996's Twister before it, it is likely most assume storm chasing has been around forever. Not true! Storm chasing began in 1972 in a classroom of stinky Felger Hall at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Joe Golden, a scientist with the National Severe Storms Laboratory addressed a meeting of the OU student chapter of the American Meteorological Society.
PBS documentary delves into love story of Julie Andrews and Oklahoma filmmaker Blake Edwards
Even more than a dozen years after his death, Blake Edwards remains an influential Hollywood icon, revered for directing movies like "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "Days of Wine and Roses" and the "Pink Panther" comedies. Born in Tulsa and raised primarily in Los Angeles, Edwards, who died in 2010 at age 88, was married...
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