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Pro-Life Oklahomans set to gather at state Capitol for mid-week event

1 year ago By News Staff

Pro-life Oklahomans are invited to come to the state Capitol in Oklahoma City Feb. 8 to urge elected officials to support life.

The program will include the invocation by Archbishop Paul Coakley, recognition of attending legislators by Speaker of the House Charles McCall and Senate President Pro Tempore Greg Treat, remarks by Attorney General Gentner Drummond, Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell and Sen. Julie Daniels, a video message from Gov. Kevin Stitt, and the benediction by Dr. Vern Charette of First Baptist Church of Coweta.

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Grow bags are a lightweight, mobile option for gardeners

1 year ago By Trisha Gedon - OSU News Service

STILLWATER – Traditional in-ground beds, raised beds and ceramic/plastic pot gardens are mainstay gardening methods, but grow bags add another dimension to this popular pastime.

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Public Records - 2/8/2023

1 year ago By News Staff

LAWSUITS

First Investors Servicing Corporation vs. Maryah Blanton for $9,716.02 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Arvest Bank vs. Ross Haxton for $4,142.85 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

American Express National Bank vs. Kalin Dyer and Speech Heart Service for $3,657.89 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

Bank of America N.A. vs. Christina Birdsley for $4,884.18 to pay a debt plus interest, costs and attorney fees.

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Sound of teaching

1 year ago By Glen Miller

Chelsea Reed enjoys singing about as much as she loves to teach, so it was only natural she merge the two worlds inside her classroom at Rose Witcher Learning Center.

“I love to sing to my kids and we do a lot of movement in the classroom every day,” said Reed.

“They don’t all learn the same. Some are visual learners, some learn by hearing and others by movement. First-graders can’t sit still for very long and it’s very challenging to keep them entertained, so we do a lot of movement and extra things because not only are they learning, but they are exercising.”

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Chamber, Tribune to host candidate forum ahead of school board election

1 year ago By News Staff

The El Reno Chamber of Commerce will partner with the El Reno Tribune to host a candidate forum, this time for the upcoming El Reno Public School Board election.

The Chamber and Tribune hosted a candidate forum for the November city council and mayoral race and like the earlier one, the school board forum will be held at Redlands Community College.

The forum is set for 6:30 p.m. Feb. 7. It will run for one hour.

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Riverside $4 million bond issue set for Feb. 14 vote

1 year ago By Ray Dyer

Proponents of a $4 million bond issue at Riverside School call the election “historic.”

Since it appears the only other time the dependent pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade school on Foreman Road held a bond election was in 1968, that may be a fitting description.

Lisa Derryberry, Riverside superintendent, said the bond issue supported at the beginning of the Nixon administration in ‘68 was for $35,000.

Times have changed.

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Report: Oklahoma personal income taxes bigger issue than business taxes

1 year ago By Ray Carter - Center for Independent Journalism

Oklahoma’s business taxes are not a major factor in business expansion or relocation decisions, but the state’s personal income tax remains a challenge cited by many business officials, according to a review conducted by the Oklahoma Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT).

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State sends questionnaire to determine the financial boycott of energy companies

1 year ago By News Staff

Oklahoma State Treasurer Todd Russ sent a letter and questionnaire to a list of national financial institutions, including fund managers and banks, to determine which companies “boycott energy companies” in Oklahoma.

Russ said this move is the first step in compiling the list of companies Oklahoma government entities are prohibited from doing business with because of their environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies.