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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is delivering $87,763,575 in new funding to Oklahoma to support testing for COVID-19. In total, $10.25 billion in funding is being provided by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to states, territories, and local jurisdictions through CDC’s existing Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases (ELC) cooperative agreement. This funding is part of the Trump Administration’s broader effort to ensure that states, territories, and tribes have the resources necessary to meet their testing goals as they begin to reopen.
Read moreKiamichi Technology Centers, Atoka Campus, and Pruett’s Food recognized Jayce Barnes and Rowdy Wood as the May Kiamichi Tech Students of the Month.
Read moreOur patterns of life have been changed this spring—school cancelled, work altered, agendas changed and events postponed. Our lives were driven by important pursuits like winning a championship, walking down an aisle or donning a cap and gown. Our days were consumed by less important things like weekend trips or little league games.
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I was flipping through a glossy home decor magazine and stopped at a section on bathrooms. The featured element, the tub, was a harsh, gray rectangle with knife-edge corners made of gray poured concrete. If it weren’t for the rose petals floating on top of the water, you might mistake it for a particularly cruel and unusual horse trough.
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LEFT—Five people in this 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt driven by Bernice Chaney of Ada were transported to the hospital Sunday following a crash on SH 48 near Clarita. Four of the victims were critically injured. ABOVE— Jacey Renfro of Purcell, driver of this 2012 Nissan Altima, and two passengers were transported to the hospital. (Photos courtesy of Clarita Fire Chief Frank Williams) More photos and story page 9.
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PAMELA BEARD with her kiddos, 9-year-old Levi and 7-year-old Leila. This is how Pamela summed up her Mother’s Day: “I got to sleep in, watch church on TV, and then we played dominoes and a few minutes of swinging. Now it’s quiet time in the sun reading a book. It’s a lovely day!” Levi and Leila’s dad is Country Beard.
Read moreWhile many businesses have already reopened for business or plan to do so in the coming days, many book lovers and persons in need of Wi-Fi and Internet connected computers are wondering when the Coal County Public Library will reopen.
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