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Tupelo Public School is pleased to announce it has received a $5,000 Classroom Enhancement grant from the Carolyn Watson Rural OklahomaCommunity Foundation administered by the Oklahoma City Community Foundation. The grant will be used to assist in funding the Tigers Flying High, which will allow Tupelo High School to provide educational opportunities that will expand its students’ horizons. “We are so pleased to have received this grant and appreciate the support of the Carolyn Watson Rural Oklahoma Community Foundation. We are excited to see where our STEM/Aviation & Drone classes go moving forward with the help of this grant.” says Mrs. Sarah Bills, Tupelo High School Principal.
Read moreIt’s fall, and we’re once again falling back into the dark ages. Not really, of course. It’s simply the end of the charade we’ve all played for the past eight months called Daylight Saving Time (DST). Every first Sunday in November, we all pretend that we get an extra hour of sleep, move whichever ancient non-resetting clocks we still own back one hour, and begrudgingly welcome the dinnertime darkness. While our internal circadian rhythms won’t change immediately, we’ll instantly alter our external daily schedules to align with the new norm. And everybody does it because, well, because it’s the law.
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November 11th we will observe Veterans Day, which was originally called Armistice Day to mark the end of World War I. Unfortunately, we’ve had too many wars since then, so the day had to be renamed.
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I reluctantly recognize it makes good business sense to play “Jingle Bell Rock” and rev up the holiday merchandising engine long before I’ve tasted Thankgiving turkey, but I refuse to sing carols or buy gifts until after Turkey Day.
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