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Dear Dave, My husband loves his job, works a regular schedule and he makes over $180,000 a year. I love my work as a part-time substitute teacher in our local school system.

A previously failed effort to levy a countywide sales tax to benefit Seminole County’s ten school districts has been resurrected.Last September, voters shot down a half-cent sales tax proposal from a consortium that included Dr.

The top education adviser to Gov. Kevin Stitt is set to depart for the University of Texas at Austin.Oklahoma Education Secretary Dan Hamlin will join the UT College of Education as its dean on Aug. 16, the university announced Monday.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday that states may bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports, upholding laws that restrict participation based on biological sex.Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the majority in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and the companion case Little v.

Summer in Oklahoma often means air conditioners running around the clock, especially in homes where cool air is escaping through gaps, cracks and poorly insulated spaces.

In this file photo from 2024, cool refreshing water gets dumped on children as they play in Seminole’s Splashpad, located in the municipal park. City officials announced Tuesday that the popular water attraction will be closed all day this Saturday, July 4.

Oklahoma State University annually conducts wheat variety trials across the state to show how different varieties respond to local growing conditions. Information from each unique site provides farmers with detailed information to make sound planting decisions for their operations.

June’s severe weather story was not led by tornadoes, but by straight-line winds. A powerful derecho and several other intense storm events produced six of the Oklahoma Mesonet’s top 50 all-time wind gusts during the month, including three triple-digit readings.

If your family is anything like mine, summer means spending a lot more time in the car. Between sports practices, camps, pool days, day trips and trying to keep everybody entertained, it can feel like you’re constantly headed somewhere.

For the past 28 years, Seminole’s parks have been in the most capable hands of Parks Supt. Russell Moore. Now, however, Moore will confine his activities to caring for his five-acre homestead east of the city, his two head of cattle and his plentiful garden.