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Check out the 2022 Pigskin Preview coming out this weekend. The special 20-page section with photos and stories on area teams will be included as a bonus section in the Sunday, Aug.

TSET seeks to partner with organizations providing character- building education to strengthen leadership and decision-making skills for young Oklahomans in grades three through eight. Healthy habits learned early last into adulthood, and investments in helping young people have confidence in healthy choices supports TSET’s mission of preventing and reducing tobacco use and obesity.

Seminole State College has selected 29 freshmen students for Class XVI of the President’s Leadership Class. PLC is a two-year scholarship program created to help students develop leadership skills and provide personal and professional growth opportunities.

Please send items for the calendar to newsroom@news-star.com. August 25 Wesley United Methodist Church will have its Free Clothes Closet from 10 a.m.

The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority board approved two agenda items at its Tuesday, Aug. 23, meeting aimed at aiding in the conversion to PlatePay (cashless tolling). The routine vote helps establish the PlatePay toll rates for drivers along the Cimarron Turnpike as well as PlatePay and PIKEPASS rates for drivers on the new Gilcrease Expressway Turnpike, which is expected to open in September.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The man suspected of fatally shooting an Oklahoma deputy sheriff and wounding another planned to kill law any enforcement officer who arrived at the home where he lived, police said Tuesday.

OBU Several hundred OBU students, including freshmen, transfers and upperclassmen, as well as OBU employees, spent Monday morning, Aug. 22, serving the Shawnee community.

It’s Way-Back Wednesday. This week’s group of photos show American National Bank when it moved to its Ninth and Broadway location in 1965; the site is now home to Arvest Bank.

CPN SHAWNEE, Okla. (August 23, 2022) — Oklahomans and visitors from nearby states flocked to Shawnee to experience the Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s (CPN) fifth annual FireLake Fireflight Balloon Festival.