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In my last column, I detailed County Improvements for Roads and Bridges (CIRB) projects for Fiscal Years 21-25 in Kingfisher and Canadian counties. This week, I’m listing projects in Blaine, Dewey and Woodward counties.
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While many of the 30-some counties finding themselves without local Department of Human Services facilities in the wake of a recent state closure decision may still be struggling for solutions, Kingfisher’s faith-based community has stepped up to the challenge.
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Dover Pastor Eloise Gray learned this summer that American children aren’t the only ones set adrift by coronavirus school closures.
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Dover school district patrons voted to approve a $15.6 million construction bond issue by an overwhelming majority last week.
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The news article recently that The Hennessey Clipper will cease weekly publication is sad to us.
We remember a time in Oklahoma when even very small towns (under 1,000) often had a newspaper.
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The U.S. Department of State has declared that the Confucius Institute U.S. Center, which has long operated an institute at the University of Oklahoma, is a foreign mission of the People’s Republic of China.
Read moreAs part of my ongoing “Take An Urbanite Outdoors Program” I recently took an 18-year-old boy outdoors at the request of his parents who are worried that playing video games and texting with his friends 14 hours a day might somehow inhibit his development. I met Drew at his bio-containment facility (house) as the Covid crises was easing and where he’d been sheltering in place for the past 18 years.
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