A 24-hour holding center is being established that will benefit police officers in their interactions with Canadian County juvenile offenders.

Commissioners, at their weekly meeting Feb. 24, approved a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will allow the Gary E. Miller Canadian County Children’s Justice Center (CCCJC) to provide a Community Intervention Center for local law enforcement agencies.

Linda Fogg called me last week and had a question about a recipe in the Girl Scout Cookbook I had mentioned in my column a couple of weeks ago.

Canadian County commissioners have accepted a maximum guaranteed price of $223,625 for a remodeling construction project at the former Department of Human Services Building, 314 W. Rogers.

The site will serve as the temporary Canadian County Administration Building during development of a four-story county courthouse at 201 N. Choctaw.

Commissioners, at their weekly meeting, approved the old DHS building remodeling project cost presented by the construction manager for Redhawk Construction.

Applications for Oklahoma Farm Bureau’s 2025 Oklahoma Grassroots Rural and Ag Business Accelerators program are now open until April 4 for rural Oklahoma and agricultural innovators looking to develop their enterprises and deepen their business understanding.

The program offers two distinct pipelines for rural Oklahoma innovators who are looking to develop their ideas, build their entrepreneurial skills and hone their pitches with help from Oklahoma’s world-class business development ecosystem.