editor's blog
By Cary Ammons
Superintendent of Antlers Public Schools
Welcome back students! School is just around the corner. Antlers Public Schools will start classes on Monday, August 22, 2011 at 8:00 a.m.
By Shirley Taylor
So funny, found out what my eight year old granddaughter wants for Christmas. Well it's on the list :) She is asking for a touch IPod. Now given the fact I have already started working on a quilt for her, this want just might not come from grandma.
By Shirley Taylor
I have noticed when my grandkids go to birthday parties they come home with a small bag of gifts. What's up with that? I remember when I was small and I'd go to a birthday party I'd take a gift and come home with nothing but memories of having a great time. There was cake and ice cream. We'd pin the tail on a donkey and have a blast.
By Tracy Steffenson
We have always been told that “Pedestrians always have the right of way,” well contrary to popular belief this is not true, according to Oklahoma statue.
The 2011 Oklahoma Organic Workshop and Field Day is scheduled for Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at the Lane Agricultural Center at Lane in Atoka County. The event is sponsored by the OSU Wes Watkins Agricultural Research and Extension Center, USDA-ARS Wes Watkins Agricultural Research Laboratory, Oklahoma SARE program, Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture and the Pushmataha and Atoka County Extension Offices.
By Tracy Steffenson
Has anyone really taken the time to look around lately and see what we are all doing to our children, well you not me as I have no kids. When your child competes in, lets say, an olympics type of scenario and comes home with a double gold medal something is wrong.
By Tracy Steffenson
I would like to time travel back to the late 80’s for a moment. When I was a kid, and got tired of playing a game everyone else was playing, all I would have to say is “I’m out!” and they would all leave me alone. Well I would like to try this for all the people who yell racist at the drop of a hat, “ I AM OUT!”
By OHP
Troopers with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol had a busy 4th of July weekend
resulting in 475 motorist assists, as well as investigating 199 collisions
(28 alcohol related), issuing 751 speed citations, 547 safety belt
citations, and jailing 119 drivers for Driving Under the Influence.
While the preliminary numbers add up to 5 fatalities, and 1 drowning, it
does look like an overall reduction from 2010 whem authorities reported 10
traffic related deaths, and zero drownings.
"It was an exrtremely HOT holiday-weekend, and our Troopers stayed super
By OSU Extension Services
The battle with false chinch bugs in canola may be over, but these pests thrive in drought conditions and are not above targeting additional crops, such as those raised by Oklahoma sorghum and soybean growers.
These insects typically feed on plants in the mustard and beet family, but when their preferred foods dry up because of plant maturity or having been sprayed with a burndown before planting in no-till operations, the pests leave in search of other tasty treats.
By Tracy Steffenson
I absolutely hate the fact that we've become a country where all that matters is "me" and "now." America was once a country where people worked together to form a society which looked out for each other while pulling their own weights, like ants; instead we have become a society of individuals, a society of wolves.
