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In order to improve Oklahoma’s health outcomes, increase access to health care and foster a more accountable system, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) will seek proposals from qualified managed care organizations to facilitate health care services to eligible and enrolled members of Oklahoma’s Medicaid program, commonly known as SoonerCare. The managed care organizations’ contracts will require them to share the financial risk associated with providing care to members. The request for proposals is expected to be released this fall.
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Justin Canfield and Leigh-Ann Colbert were selected for this week’s “Make Your Turf Count”. Justin always works hard making sure the yard is looking its best with help from the family.
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From the perspective of many veterans, their military service is merely a duty. They were doing their job. They don’t look in the mirror and see a hero. When wounded Air Force sergeant Tom Marcum returned home from Iraq, he was his family’s hero every day. But his wife April would soon step up to be the second hero in the Marcum family.
Read moreSeminole’s Strother Cinema will be having its long-awaited reopening this Friday, June 19! The longstanding establishment, owned by Seminole residents Steve and Lisa Schopes, has been closed for months due to the Covid- 19 pandemic. While concerns have not been entirely abated, through added safety precautions they now feel comfortable opening their doors to the public.
Read moreGovernor Kevin Stitt was joined today by city and county leaders to announce the State has begun fulfilling reimbursement requests for Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Relief Funds, fulfilling 30 percent of city and county requests in the first seven days of receiving applications.
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Seminole High School is set to have a traditional graduation today, June 18, at 8 p.m. at Chieftain Stadium. Graduating seniors have the option to choose to participate or not to participate.The school has issued a list of rules that everyone in attendance must follow in order to comply with guidelines issued by the school. Those rules are as follows:
Read moreIn the midst of the concerning at best and bleak at most conditions the world has been facing since the start of 2020, there is one group doing better than ever: animals up for adoption! With so many people home due to COVID-19 and its subsequent quarantine, pet adoption rates all over the country have spiked higher than they have in years.Mary Ann Hill, who is president of the Seminole Humane Society, believes this pleasantly surprising surge can be attributed to the simple fact that people now have more free time to dedicate toward an animal addition to the family. Of the quarantine adoptions, Hill recounts that it has, “been a time of families spending a lot of time together and knowing they now have time for a pet,” and “gives everybody something to do.”
Read moreIn September of 2019, the Seminole City Council approved a budget to perform maintenance on the City of Seminole’s wastewater treatment plant. The City contracted the job to Lagoon Pumping and Dredging Inc. That maintenance began this week.“This is a necessary process to keep the sewer lines working for Seminole’s residents,” said Public Works Director Bryant Baker. “Lagoon Pumping and Dredging advised us that this week would be favorable weather conditions to get the work done in a short amount of time.”
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