With the upcoming Independence Day weekend, many will be celebrating with family, friends, food and fun. Whether it’s a cookout, time at the pool or lake, fireworks or patriotic festivals and observances, share your Fourth of July photos with us and they could be printed in the News-Star.
Another new business has opened at the Marketplace. Shoe Sensation Manager Veronica Goss, staff, friends, and Shawnee Forward Ambassadors came together recently to celebrate the grand opening of Shoe Sensation, 4850 Marketplace Blvd., Suite 800.
Oklahomans statewide have an opportunity to bring attention to deserving individuals, businesses, and organizations that contribute to the success of the arts in their communities and schools. The Oklahoma Arts Council is accepting nominations for the 2023 Governor’s Arts Awards through October 14, 2022.
Fourth graders at Horace Mann Elementary participated in a summer STEM activity where they were able to build music machines or drag racing kits. .
Please send items for the calendar to Elisabeth Slay, eslay@ news-star.com and/or newsroom@ news-star.com. June 30 Pleasant Grove Public School will be participating in the Summer Food Program Monday, June 6 through Thursday, June 30 at Pleasant Grove School from 11:30 a.m.
If you have daylilies in your yard, you are probably enjoying their blooms. Their Greek name is Hemerocallis translated in English to “day beauty” because their blooms last only one day but there are many more to follow for a few days or weeks.
Seminole State College held its Kids on Campus Summer Camp. During one of the sessions, John Bartos, Middle School Art Teacher at Bethel Public Schools, discussed the results of his Seminole State College campers’ ceramic works after the firing process.
Please send items for the calendar to Elisabeth Slay, eslay@news-star.com and/or newsroom@news-star.com. June 28 Life Recovery Shawnee, a Christ centered addiction recovery support group, meets every Tuesday night at 7 p.m.
A Seminole man died in a single-vehicle crash along SH 9 over the weekend in Pottawatomie County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. The crash, which remains under investigation, occurred about 2:42 a.m.
ADA – East Central University is now halfway through beginning freshmen group enrollment days. The group enrollment days – dubbed “Tiger Enrollment Days” – give new students a chance to get to know ECU a little bit more before stepping foot on campus in August.