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The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden is pleased to announce the arrival of a healthy male red panda cub. The cub was born late in the evening on Thursday, July 20, at the OKC Zoo’s red panda habitat in Sanctuary Asia to first-time mom, Khyana, 4, and father, Benjamin, 8.
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On Wednesday, July 19, the Wewoka Chamber of Business and Industry welcomed Laura Sikes, Director of the Imagination Library of Oklahoma, to their monthly luncheon membership meeting. Sikes explained to the chamber members that the Imagination Library is the flagship charity legendary musical artist Dolly Parton has established, and the only charity that she has officially put her name on.
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A former area resident was one of the three U.S. Marine Corp members that were found dead in North Carolina on Sunday morning. Merax Cade Dockery, 23, was a 2019 graduate of Seminole High School. The other two Marines were Tanner J. Kaltenberg, 19, of Madison, Wisconsin, and Ivan R. Garcia, 23, of Naples, Florida.
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House Where Two Seminole County Deputies Were Killed Fourteen Years Ago Demolished
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News Release In April 1957, photographer Jerry Dantzic had an assignment from Decca Records to photograph Billie Holiday during a weeklong run of performances at the Newark, N.J., nightclub, Sugar Hill. What unfolded was an unexpected and intimate journey into her private and public worlds. His photos comprise the largest collection of images from any single Billie Holiday club engagement. “Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic” presents over 50 remarkable images of the jazz icon that challenge the tragic narrative that frequently defines her. The exhibition will be on view at the Woody Guthrie Center beginning Oct. 11, 2023.
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