Oklahoma Environmental Management Authority is asking the assistance of all curbside recycling participants to adhere to the current recycle standards.
David Griesel, general manager of OEMA, said crews are finding all sorts of items in the recycling containers that do not belong.
In fact, some participants cause the entire efforts of those that want to recycle to be rejected due to contamination.
Northbound and southbound U.S. 81 will be intermittently narrowed to one lane in each direction between Okarche and County Road 840 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday for survey work.
Work mostly will occur along the shoulders. Motorists are advised to expect delays and to watch for workers in the area.
Canadian County commissioners signed off on nearly $1 million in newly financed county landfill equipment.
Commissioners approved proposals for the Oklahoma Environmental Management Authority (OEMA) to purchase financing for a landfill compactor and front-loader truck.
“As beneficiary of the trust, we approve the debt they incur,” District 2 County Commissioner David Anderson said.
Anderson, Canadian County’s representative on the OEMA board, said both pieces of new equipment are already “in the fleet and working.”
The Oklahoma Media Center recently selected the name “Promised Land: A Supreme Court Decision Places Oklahoma at a Crossroads” for a shared topic in 2021.
The collaborative will cover the affirmation of tribal sovereignty after the Supreme Court ruling last year.
When a deep freeze settled across Oklahoma in mid-February, the greenhouse sheltering Oklahoma State University’s wheat breeding program showed its age in the worst way.
Constructed in the 1960s, the facility’s heating system failed, pipes froze, and 70 percent of the hybrid plants inside succumbed to crippling cold. The loss was catastrophic and exemplified a need to reinvest in the crumbling infrastructure of agricultural research.
Playing perennial powerhouse Carl Albert close for seven innings seemed to awaken the sleeping giant as the Titans swept last week’s District 5A-2 doubleheader against El Reno High School’s baseball team at the Hub Reed Complex.
Carl Albert, the district leader, took the opening game of the set by a 6-0 tally, before blanking the Indians 16-0 in game two. The setbacks extended El Reno’s current losing streak to six games.
El Reno is now 12-15 on the season and 8-4 in the district standings, falling to fourth behind Carl Albert, Piedmont and Guthrie.
Redlands Community College is headed back to the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Women's Golf Championships after dominating the field at the 2021 Region 2 tourney hosted at Crimson Creek Golf Course.
The Cougars shot a 36-hole total of 626 to win the regional championship by 151 strokes over runner-up Seminole State College (777). Murray State College (835) was third - 209 strokes behind the Cougars.
It’s playoff time for slow-pitch softball teams in Canadian County and both Union City and Calumet High School head into the postseason on winning notes.
Union City takes an 18-12 record into the Class 2A, District 7 Championship at Fletcher – ranked 10th in the state.
The Tigers are coming off a 2-2 record in last week’s Fletcher Festival, beating Blair (17-1) and Big Pasture (12-2).
Union City lost to Class 3A’s 15th-ranked Boone-Apache (6-0) and Class A’s 18th-ranked Grandfield (10-4).
