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Multiple reports have shown that Oklahoma has been among the nation’s top states for net in-bound domestic migration starting in 2020, and a new report indicates that trend has continued into 2023.
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VIEW from behind the plow
Read moreGov. Kevin Stitt’s decision to veto legislation reauthorizing the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA), the state’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) entity, has drawn national attention and prompted much pearl-clutching from his critics.
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Kingfisher High School seniors Andrew Osborn and Lily Fletcher are the May 2023 Junior Lions.
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Hennessey High School students graduated Friday, May 12, at the Eagle Event Center, but before that they were celebrated during an awards program Thursday, May 4, at the school auditorium.
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Kingfisher’s 21st Century Community Learning Center (CCLC) STARS program provides before, after and summer programming to students in fourth-eighth grades. Under the guidance of one of the district’s music teachers, Teresa Greco, students have participated in World Music Drumming. Students have learned to echo drum, identify the type of instrument being played and the culture from which the excerpts derive. The goal of implementing world drumming into the afterschool program was to teach students the greater value on the musical cultures of Africa and the Caribbean. Students discussed how traditional drumming may be the same or different from contemporary styles in various cultures and learned to have greater respect for people represented by the traditions studied. Teresa Greco is World Music Drumming Level 1 certified. The certification program was paid for by the Kingfisher Educational Foundation. Greco, seated center, is pictured with students, from left: Clayton Blocker, Anthony Carrillo, Alleigh Kelley, Brailyn Schroeder, Presley Fisher and Korbie Baartman. [Photo provided]
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The Apron Annies HCE group hosted the 2023 Okarche High School senior class baccalaureate services Sunday, May 14. Apron Annies has hosted this event for 30 years with the first being May 1993. Annies members assisting in the reception were (top right photo), from left: Mary Nell Brueggen, Jan Wittrock and Betty Kroener. Guests for the special event included (top left photo), from left: Pastor James Inman of the First Baptist Church of Okarche; G.W. Parham, OHS principal; Dr. Juanita Krittenbrink, moderator; Jim Schwarz, guest speaker and math teacher at OHS; Col. Judd Kroener, United States Air Force and guest speaker; and Father Cory Stanley of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Okarche. Apron Annies HCE scholarship recipient for 2023 from OHS is Tyson Endres (bottom right photo), the daughter of Tresa Endres-Rother, Justin Rother and the late Landon Endres. Endres plans to attend Northern Oklahoma College in Stillwater and major in psychology. She was recognized by Annie’s President, Juanita Krittenbrink, left.
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