Seminole’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.”
Read moreThe Department of Public Safety has launched a new website to help Oklahomans better understand how and why to get a REAL ID. The website can be found by going to realid. ok.gov or the DPS website, ok.gov/dps and clicking on the banner at the top of the main page.Oklahomans will find a wealth of information on the site including a quiz that can be taken to determine if you need a REAL ID or not.
Read moreOfficials with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics says overdoses linked to fake prescription pills are on the rise across the state.
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The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) has issued the following situation update about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Oklahoma:
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