Welcome to Shawnee Splash opening weekend! The 2025 summer season is finally here, and we hope you come join us! The Shawnee Parks and Recreation Department has been busy behind the scenes cleaning, prepping, and training to help make the Splash Water Park located at 100 E. Highland one of the best places to be this summer! Shawnee Splash is open all Memorial Weekend including Monday 12-7 p.m.
Shawnee's city sales tax collection report for May has been released.
ENID – It’s as if the Potawatomi Fire grew fangs in the fourth quarter Thursday night at the Stride Bank Center. Down by 18 points (97-79) with 21 seconds to go in the third period, Potawatomi staged a miraculous comeback and edged the Enid Outlaws 116-115 in The Basketball League (TBL).
Dear Class of 2025,
My garden has been revamped untold times as it evolves into a potted plant extravaganza. So many containers of all sizes and most are on the concrete driveway and floor of the non-existing garage where two greenhouses now reside.
The whirlwind four-day Middle East visit by President Donald Trump underscores both the complex nature of relationships within that volatile, vital region and his distinctive style. Since mainstream media coverage of Trump is so often negative, indeed the adversarial relationship is now established, more dispassionate evaluation becomes highly desirable.
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Avedis Foundation has just announced that it has issued a $23,784.21 grant to Safe Families Oklahoma (SFO) for its Pottawatomie County initiative.
TECUMSEH -A 62-year-old man is jailed in the Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center on a $500,000 bond on numerous complaints involving sexual assault, and authorities believe his victims go back as far as the 1980s. The Tecumseh Police Department requested the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation to investigate allegations of sexual assault.
WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance is available to the state of Oklahoma to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by wildfires and straight-line winds from March 14–21, 2025.