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Erick Ramblings

Erick Ramblings

I hope you are gearing up for summer, because it’s here, and it is hot! Thursday was the official start and I believe it. Fall can’t come soon enough for me! 06/22/2024 04:00 AM

Phonics push a quiet win of session

Phonics push a quiet win of session

For years, teachers’ unions and even officials at state colleges of education have resisted efforts to improve reading instruction in Oklahoma public schools. That’s why this year’s passage of legislation focused on reading instruction is such a significant victory. 06/22/2024 04:00 AM

Stillwater Kindergarten Teacher Wins National Agriculture Award

Stillwater Kindergarten Teacher Wins National Agriculture Award

OKLAHOMA CITY – Jennifer Crosthwait, a kindergarten teacher at Skyline Elementary in Stillwater, has been selected for the 2024 National Excellence in Teaching About Agriculture Award. Crosthwait is one of eight teachers across the United States who received the honor. 06/22/2024 04:00 AM

Rehabilitation Services ends waiting list for jobseekers with most significant disabilities

Rehabilitation Services ends waiting list for jobseekers with most significant disabilities

OKLAHOMA CITY The Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services reopened job preparation and employment services for a category of jobseekers with significant disabilities known as priority group 2, effective June 17. 06/22/2024 04:00 AM

Lankford Works to Protect Health Care Workers from Discrimination If They Do Not Perform Abortions

Lankford Works to Protect Health Care Workers from Discrimination If They Do Not Perform Abortions

WASHINGTON, DC – Senator James Lankford (R-OK) introduced the Conscience Protection Act to protect health care providers and insurance plans from government discrimination if they decline to participate in abortions. The Conscience Protection Act also provides a private right of action for victims of conscience discrimination because the Biden Administration refuses to enforce existing conscience protections. 06/22/2024 04:00 AM

Marriages & Divorces

Marriages & Divorces

DIVORCES 06/22/2024 04:00 AM

Misdemeanors Felonies

Misdemeanors Felonies

MISDEMEANORS 06/22/2024 04:00 AM

Milner to be among musicians performing cowboy music at the Fourth Annual Dust Bowl Days

Milner to be among musicians performing cowboy music at the Fourth Annual Dust Bowl Days

By Shonda Little (Editor’s note: the following biography was provided) With just a month left to plan, volunteers and organizers for the fourth annual Dust Bowl Days are in full swing to make July 1921 memorable in Sayre. 06/22/2024 04:00 AM

JAMES BOHANNON

James Lynn Bohannon was born November 12th, 1945 at Sayre, Oklahoma to JC and Nadine Bohannon. He passed away May 24, 2024 at his home in Sayre at the age of 78. 06/22/2024 04:00 AM

Weekly Weather

Sunday 100/76 Mostly Sunny 06/22/2024 04:00 AM

Artist Registration Open for Annual State Waterfowl Art Contest; $1,200 Goes to Winner

Artist Registration Open for Annual State Waterfowl Art Contest; $1,200 Goes to Winner

Every year for the past 43 years, Oklahoma has conducted an annual Waterfowl Stamp Design Contest to celebrate great artwork and raise funds for wetland habitat projects across the state. Artists may register online right now for this year's contest. Artwork entries are due by Aug. 31. 06/22/2024 04:00 AM

Environmental law enforcement is the focus of free, upcoming seminar

Environmental law enforcement is the focus of free, upcoming seminar

STILLWATER, Okla. – To help combat the issue of illegal roadside dumps, Oklahoma State University Extension is partnering with the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Department of Agriculture- Rural Development to host an Oklahoma Environmental Law Enforcement Training Seminar on July 25 in Durant, Oklahoma. 06/22/2024 04:00 AM