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The State Regents’ Council for Online Learning Excellence (COLE) recognized a Seminole State College administrator for her outstanding work in online education during the State Regents meeting on April 28. SSC Interim Executive Director of Business Service Melanie Rinehart was honored with the Oklahoma Online Excellence Award for Individual Leadership.
Read moreU.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, praised the unanimous committee passage of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2022 and announced provisions in the legislation that will benefit Oklahoma.
Read moreMembers of the fifth grade classes at Roosevelt school receiving awards at the recent awards assembly held at the school are: Gregg Wood, Mark Mansell, Timothy Hays, Doug Melton, Manuel Rivas, Guy Austin, Wade Roop, Tommy Tipton, Donna Canfield, Lori Christian, Mark Stewart, Regina Epley, Lynn Givens, Ruth Ann Oliver, Rhonda Pitts, Tenna Vaughn, Keith Howard, Tony Jackson, Mark Ransey, Robyn Sebourn, Donald Poplin, Stephen Phillips, Tommy Burkhart, and Terri Scott.
Read moreCindy Byrd’s investigative audit of Stillwater Public Schools has led to felony embezzlement charges filed against former district employee Stacy Hampton. Hampton is accused of stealing more than $200,000 from the school nutrition program over the course of seven years.
Read moreThe United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that Martha Christine Simpson, age 45, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma was found guilty by a federal jury of Voluntary Manslaughter in Indian Country.
Read moreKelly Hankal, a Seminole State College employee, recently received the Outstanding Instructor of Non-Traditional Students Award from the Oklahoma Career and Technical Education Equity Council.
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The steeple on top of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Walnut Street in Seminole was toppled during the EF-2 tornado that ravaged the city Wednesday night. The historic church also reportedly sustained other damages. —Photo courtesy Robby Trammell
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Thomas Hill, chief executive officer of Kimray, will deliver the commencement address during Oklahoma Baptist University’s Spring Commencement May 21. The ceremony will take place at 2 p.m. inside Raley Chapel’s Potter Auditorium on the OBU campus in Shawnee.
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