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Rowe named 2025 Watkins Award winner

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Dayna Rowe, executive director of External Affairs at Redlands Community College, has been recognized as the Natalea Watkins Communicator of the Year by the Oklahoma College Public Relations Association (OCPRA), a statewide honor recognizing outstanding leadership and achievement in higher education.

Dan Mabery presents the Natalea Watkins Communicator of the Year to Dayna Rowe

Gifts to the Yanks shopping

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Several El Reno High School students shop for the annual Gifts to the Yanks event.

The students shopped and then wrapped the gifts that were taken to the VA Hospital in Oklahoma City.

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Oklahoma veterans get holiday support

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66 Tactical, a private gun club and training center, partnered with the Oklahoma Purple Heart Youth Ambassadors in a food and toy drive to serve families of Oklahoma veterans in need this holiday season.

Each year, the Oklahoma Department of the Military Order of the Purple Heart distributes holiday food baskets at Thanksgiving and Christmas to ensure that local veterans in need share happy memories around healthy holiday meals with their families.

OACC conference

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Redlands Community College faculty and staff along with President Jena Marr attended the annual conference for the Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges.

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Oklahoma Teen Film Festival taking entries

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The Oklahoma Teen Film Festival is now accepting early bird submissions for the 2026 festival, set for March 28, 2026, on the University of Central Oklahoma campus.

Open exclusively to Oklahoma high school students, the festival provides a level playing field for emerging filmmakers to share their stories and compete with peers from across the state.

Holt pushes election system

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In a recent interview, Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt dismissed Oklahoma’s statewide elected officials as “bitterly unpopular” while claiming he and other Oklahoma City leaders have achieved historic levels of support.

Yet election records show the statewide officials Holt dismisses as astoundingly unpopular received far more votes in Oklahoma City precincts than Holt did in his most recent re-election campaign.

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Interior Department takes on tribal education

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The Department of the Interior is set to take a bigger role in tribal education, and some lawmakers say the dismantling of the Department of Education could spell problems for tribal programs caught in the reshuffling.

The Interior Department will soon oversee 14 projects and funding related to tribal education previously housed in the Department of Education. The delegation to a new agency is part of the Trump administration’s first major steps toward dismantling the Department of Education and meeting its stated goal of returning power to the states.

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