Community enjoys Balloon Festival
By Elisabeth Slay The Shawnee News-Star eslay@news-star.com Many attended the 2022 FireLake Fireflight Balloon Festival Friday, Aug. 12 and Saturday, Aug.
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Iran denies involvement but justifies Salman Rushdie attack
The Associated Press Iran denies involvement but justifies Salman Rushdie attack DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian government official denied on Monday that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie, though he justified the stabbing in remarks that represented the Islamic Republic’s first public comments on the attack. The comments by Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, came more than two days after the attack on Rushdie in New York.
Election Day reminders, tips
LCEB Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Lincoln County voters can request an emergency ballot for the Aug. 23 election
Registered voters who become physically incapacitated after 5 p.m. Monday, August 22, 2022 and cannot make it to the polls, will still have an opportunity to cast their ballot.
Oklahoma students achieving gains in college, career readiness
As Oklahoma high school students return to the classroom this month, they will participate in an initiative helping them prepare for life after graduation. For the third consecutive year, all incoming freshmen in Oklahoma public schools will begin a fouryear Individual Career Academic Planning (ICAP) process.
Thyroid conditions
Part 1: Hypothyroidism School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University The thyroids are small but important glands located in the neck that produce hormones affecting all aspects of metabolism and many other vital body functions. Dogs or cats experiencing problems with the thyroid can have a variety of physical symptoms and behavioral changes.
Hay Bales: Mineral concentrations in forages
The nutrition of grazing animals is a complicated interaction of soils, plants, and animals. The performance and health of grazing livestock is dependent on the adequacy and availability of essential mineral elements from pastures. Of the nutritional entities provided by the pasture, minerals are the most variable. Mineral requirements are dependent on forage mineral content, animal age, and stage of production. However, simply knowing the animal’s requirement is only one component in evaluating an animal’s mineral status.
Aug. 15: a day that a generation grew old overnight
Shabnam Khalilyar Gaylord News The University of Oklahoma Note: Shabnam Khalilyar, 26, is a University of Oklahoma Gaylord College journalism fellow preparing to enter graduate school this fall to study international diplomacy. She was on one of the last planes out of Afghanistan in 2021 after the country fell to the Taliban.
Education tax collections in August hold steady
$25M collected for schools since 2016 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. 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.
District Attorney Allan Grubb resigns
Pottawatomie/Lincoln County District Attorney Allan Grubb won’t have a scheduled accusation for removal hearing today after submitting his formal letter of resignation to Gov. Kevin Stitt on Friday.