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With the cancellation of its May 16 Academic Awards Banquet due to COVID-19, the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence is partnering with OETA Public Television to broadcast a 30-minute tribute to award winning-students and educators at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 16, and 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 17. The program will also be shown on OETA World Channel at 8:30 p.m. May 23 and 7:30 p.m. May 30.
Read moreGov. Kevin Stitt said Oklahoma is still on track to enter “Phase Two” of the Open Up and Recover Safely (OURS) Plan in a press conference Monday afternoon. The next phase would allow more businesses to open around the state and relax some restrictions beginning this Friday, May 15.
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Seminole County has seen the number of confirmed positive cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) stay the same, but more information has been provided about the cities within the county in the latest report from the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH). Countywide, there have been 21 confirmed positive cases, two deaths and 11 recoveries.
Read morePolice in some of Oklahoma’s largest cities are electing to use a softer touch, rather than aggressive enforcement, with state and local business restrictions as Oklahoma gradually reopens amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read moreOKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma House of Representatives on Monday passed the Barbara E. Hoover Act that will extend electronic monitoring of family members to long-term care facilities.
Read moreI came to Seminole with my mother and went shopping. No one in this town was wearing masks. We were wearing masks and people were looking at us like freaks.
Read moreState Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister announced today that nearly $145 million in emergency federal relief is now available to Oklahoma school districts. Provided in the federal Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the funds are Oklahoma’s portion of the $13 billion Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund designated for states after the CARES Act was signed into law in March.
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