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The Centre Theatre for the Arts will present "Over the River and Through the Woods" on Feb. 23 and 24 and March 1 and 2 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 25 and March 3 at 2 p.m. at the Centre Theatre, 110 S. Bickford Avenue.

The play, directed by Guy Hickerson with assistant director Patrice Gross, sees four Italian grandparents looking forward to their grandson visiting every Sunday.

That is, until they receive word that he’s moving more than 2,000 miles away.

The grandparents will do anything to keep him from moving, even help him find a girlfriend.

Voters across Canadian County will head to the polls March 5 to decide whether to update the county’s 39-year-old Sunday alcohol sales prohibition. They’ll also cast ballots for President of the United States.

The proposition on Canadian County election ballots will read: “Shall the sales of alcoholic beverages by the individual drink for on-premises consumption on Sundays be extended to begin at 8 a.m. as allowed by law like other days of the week within Canadian County, Oklahoma?”

Voters will choose to vote yes or no on the county question.

From concurrent enrollment classes to the support for STEM degree programs such as nursing, Redlands Community College students see and appreciate the value of Oklahoma’s investment in higher education.

Several of these students visited the Capitol recently for Higher Education Day to meet with legislators and advocate for continued legislative support for Oklahoma’s colleges and universities.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Legislation requiring certain state agencies to implement a call-back system in a push to provide improved customer service has passed the Oklahoma House.

Speaker Pro Tempore Kyle Hilbert, R-Bristow, said he authored House Bill 3285 after overhearing a mom at his daughter’s dance class complaining that she had been on hold with a state agency for over an hour for the second time that week.

Two measures intended to reduce online child exploitation and harm won easy approval in Oklahoma House committees this week.

One measure targets companies that provide pornographic material by requiring those companies to have valid age verification safeguards, while the other bill would prevent most children from having social media accounts.

Okarche fifth-graders, from left, Lauren and Taylin Schwarz and Tinley Running all wore matching outfits to cheer on Okarche High School’s basketball teams last week in the regional round of the Class A playoffs.

The Warriors split the playoff games, with the girls losing to Oklahoma Bible Academy and the boys defeating Hominy.