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Today’s date, 10122022, makes an interesting repeating number arrangement. I still have my original driver’s license number. Threes were interspersed throughout the ascending numbers…. 236383…..etc.

So, our insects and wildlife know when our gardens are prime ready, even before we may realize it. Yes, they will race us to the produce, and sometimes win! With our current drought situation, the critters are looking for food and water too, maybe more so than in average years. If tomatoes have started to turn, we can harvest a few days early. Beating the insects to the food and ripen them on our kitchen counter. I have been doing this with my garden for a couple of weeks. It works really well, just don’t refrigerate them or the ripening stops. Here are some additional details on harvesting: As we enter the shorter and cooler days of late summer and fall tomatoes that survived the summer may begin setting fruit again. Hopefully they will ripen before freezing temperatures set in, but in case we have an early freeze that threatens the plants, tomatoes can be picked before they are fully ripe and stored indoors to complete the ripening process.

Through a 0.495-cent Pottawatomie County sales tax increase for schools, backed by voters in November of 2015 and set to continue until June 30, 2026, schools have been collecting funds for more than six years — now past the halfway mark of its goal. The tax increase was proposed to achieve two things: a 0.49-cent portion –– projected to raise $3.7 million in revenue annually –– is being split between the county’s 14 school districts, and the other portion of the tax — .005 cents — is being utilized for the construction, acquisition, maintenance, and operation of the One Safe Place Family Justice Center.

The Dale High School baseball team won the Class A Fall State Baseball Tournament championship on Saturday at the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City. .

Oklahoma Baptist University announces the launch of three new engineering programs beginning with the fall semester of 2023. The degree options will include Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering. Each of the degree programs will be taught in a context that relates to the aerospace industry but will prepare students for entry into any industry requiring these engineering degrees.

Local gems make up Shawnee life: See how well you know Shawnee. With Halloween just around the corner, homes across town are on spooky display.

Lessons learned from Queen Elizabeth’s passing The world stopped. Paused.