Newsletter-Mid-Week

This month, Avedis Foundation doled out a $23,000 grant to Legacy Parenting Center for its Earn While You Learn Program.

Through a 0.495-cent Pottawatomie County sales tax increase for schools, backed by voters in November of 2015 and set to expire June 30, 2026, schools have been collecting funds for several years.

Shawnee's city sales tax collection report for May has been released.

Oklahoma CareerTech’s technology center campuses increased by one last Thursday, when the State Board of Career and Technology Education approved a new campus for Gordon Cooper Technology Center. GCTC is expanding its aviation maintenance technology program and adding a fifth instructor, which allows the aviation maintenance site to be considered a full campus by the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education.

Recently, Shawnee City Commissioners followed up on discussions on how to proceed forward concerning the adaptive kayak launch at the Shawnee Twin Lakes -- ultimately voting to move the dock.

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Two students are being honored for each month from September to April of the 2024-25 school year, named as nominees for the Best of Tri-County Area Preps Student of the Year award, which will be announced at the News-Star's Preps gala on June 3.] Rachelle Canaga and Austin Dong have been named The Shawnee News-Star and CPN Students of the Month for March and are now finalists for the Student of the Year award. Canaga is a senior at Shawnee High School and Dong is a senior at North Rock Creek High School.