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OKLAHOMA CITY The Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services reopened job preparation and employment services for a category of jobseekers with significant disabilities known as priority group 2, effective June 17.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Jennifer Crosthwait, a kindergarten teacher at Skyline Elementary in Stillwater, has been selected for the 2024 National Excellence in Teaching About Agriculture Award. Crosthwait is one of eight teachers across the United States who received the honor.

For years, teachers’ unions and even officials at state colleges of education have resisted efforts to improve reading instruction in Oklahoma public schools. That’s why this year’s passage of legislation focused on reading instruction is such a significant victory.

I hope you are gearing up for summer, because it’s here, and it is hot! Thursday was the official start and I believe it. Fall can’t come soon enough for me!

A 57-year-old Elk City man has been charged with two counts of a sex offender violating child-safe zones.

County mirrors state on statewide elections

The Elk City School Board held its regularly scheduled meeting on June 10 at the Elk City Board of Education.

A 45-year-old Elk City man has been released from the Beckham County Detention Center on a $5,000 bond after being charged with false declaration in pawn, pattern of criminal offenses, and two counts of embezzlement.

Each year, Trinity Fellowship of Sayre holds their version of church camp, coined the Camp of Champions.

Second Erick man also charged in case involving aggravated fentanyl trafficking

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have a friend, “Sophie,” who is cheating on her husband of 25 years. Of course, this is not our business. But now, unbeknownst to her husband, she has incorporated her lover into their everyday life. Her lover is from India and is also married. Sophie is now obsessed with all things Indian – wearing saris, dancing in her lover’s dance troupe and wearing henna all over her body.

At least several times a day, someone says, “Dr. Dixie, I’m so frustrated by how HARD things are. Parenting is HARD, work is HARD, marriage is HARD…everything is HARD. I don’t think I signed up for this! I thought by now life would be easier!”