OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) annually holds two conferences, one to shape policies that will benefit the youth of Oklahoma and the other to educate advocates about how to be more effective when pursuing policy changes with lawmakers.
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Today is the 32nd day of 2023 and the 43rd day of winter.
TODAY’S HISTORY:
In 1861, a Texas state convention voted 166-8 in favor of a measure to secede from the Union.
In 1884, the first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
Veryable Incorporated will sign a partnership agreement with Western Governors University (WGU), an accredited, online nonprofit university to provide operators the opportunity to pursue multiple paths to higher education and professional development.
The University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma will author of “Killers of the Flower Moon” David Grann alongside lawyer, author, professor and consultant Hannibal B. Johnson as the keynote speakers for the 2023 Giles Symposium on Citizenship and Public Service on March 3 at 6 p.m.
Students from across Oklahoma participated in last Friday’s Aero Student Day at Paycom Center. Students from Ada, Alva, Bartlesville, Durant, ECHO Homeschool Extension, Enid, Norman, Paoli, Weatherford, Western Heights and Wewoka participated then attended a Thunder game.
Seminole County and much of Oklahoma braced for a wintry mix of weather as January ends and February begins. Monday started with a light glaze of freeing rain, followed by an extremely fast and heavy fall of sleet in Seminole that turned streets into a driving hazard in a matter of minutes in town.
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to remove an illegal regulation from federal law that allows the World Health Organization (WHO) to exert its authority over the United States.
Filed last week in U.S.
The Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics (OSSM) announced Monday it won first place at the regional competition for the National Science Bowl (NSB). As the Oklahoma state champions, the OSSM team of high school seniors will compete in the national competition in Washington D.C. in April.
This corrects a story that appeared in the Jan. 29 edition of the Seminole Producer.
According to the Seminole County Election Board, the only election on Feb. 14 will be for City of Seminole Mayor.