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Shawnee-area readers share their Easter photos. If you’d like to share yours, email them to newsroom@news-star.com.

Oklahoma City, OK - The 56th Annual Festival of the Arts in Bicentennial Park is set April 19-24. This year’s Festival presents 27 food vendors ready to create a masterpiece for the tastebuds.

In an ongoing series, The Shawnee News-Star is sharing photos of locals and their beloved pets. To share yours for an upcoming editions, email photos and information to www.newsstar.com .

TROUTMAN, N.C. (AP) — A person was shot and wounded outside the North Carolina home of rapper DaBaby, authorities said Thursday, but it was unclear if he himself was involved or hurt.

Bethel High School held their “Chasing Waterfalls” prom Saturday, April 9 at the Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center. According to Bethel High School Principal Jeremy Stewart, prom was as success as students had a great time and requested popular songs from the 80s and 90s.

With almost two decades of experience, Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member and Smith family descendant, Kortni Torralba was named one of 12 finalists for 2022 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year by the Oklahoma State Department of Education. She brings a unique skill set and outlook to her position as a therapeutic educator at Moore Alternative School and Treatment.

Shawnee High School junior Olivia Stevenson has completed a week of service as a page for Sen. Shane Jett, R-Shawnee.

Twenty-five hot air balloons will take flight over Shawnee skies once again at the fifth annual FireLake Fireflight Balloon Fest, scheduled for Friday, Aug. 12 and Saturday, Aug.

When “The Score” hosted by Edmund Stone played Friday afternoon, the lead-off song was Judy Garland singing “In your Easter bonnet” from the 1948 movie “Easter Parade.” My father loved that movie. In the spring he would occasionally burst out singing “Easter Parade” then give a big grin. “Oklahoma” ran a close second. Of all the traditions, the parades at Easter go back to the earliest Holy Week in the Christian religion. The first procession was Jesus entering Jerusalem before Passover to commemorate the time the Hebrews were liberated from Egyptian slavery. The second walk was when Jesus carried the cross through Jerusalem to outside the gates beyond the city.