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The Betty L. Smith Early Childhood Center (BLS), a Seminole Public School, is having two enrollment days next week for the 2024-2025 school year.
Read moreThe Chickasaw Nation Election Commission announces filing period for the 2024 General Elections opens Monday, June 3 and continues through Wednesday, June 5, 2024.
Read moreDrowning is the leading cause of death among children ages 1 - 4 years in Oklahoma, according to OSDH vital record data, with most occurring from May to August.
Read moreHomesteading has become more mainstream within the past decade as interest climbs in gardening and locally sourced products. With more than a century of experience and research, Oklahoma State University Extension is a valuable resource for homesteaders.
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When summer begins to fade, don’t hang up that gardening trowel just yet. A renewed season of fall vegetables awaits in your own backyard.
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The term rain garden is something of a misnomer. A rain garden conjures up visions of perpetually moist landscape features; juicy basins teeming with thirsty plants and perhaps an amphibian or two. In fact, rain gardens experience a wide range of moisture conditions, ranging from temporary flooded bog, to bone-dry. According to the Soil Science Society of America, a rain garden is a feature “used to slow, collect, infiltrate, and filter stormwater.” Rain gardens improve the environment, and look beautiful while doing it. Learn how to put rain gardens to work in your landscape.
Read moreWheat has been fed to hogs in varying amounts for many years. Interest in wheat as a swine feed depends largely on the price relationship between wheat and other cereal grains. There have been periods in recent years when wheat has been competitively priced with other cereal grains, justifying its use in swine diets. When wheat is competitively priced with other cereal grains, it becomes especially attractive to Oklahoma pork producers since Oklahoma is a major wheat producing state. Wheat production in the state ranges from 100 to 200 million bushels annually. Often the state’s wheat harvest is five times as great as the combined production of sorghum grain, barley, corn and oats. Feeding wheat to hogs is viewed as a grain marketing alternative by some wheat producers who also raise hogs.
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DEAR ABBY: My friend “Gene” and I have been friends since elementary school. We’re now in our 50s. We were inseparable best friends all those years. When we were about 30, I started noticing our friendship seemed to be a one-way street because he made no effort to initiate contact.
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