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Wednesday 19 Jun
OKG Newsletter
Carol Cole-Frowe
Take shelter
A substantial funding cut looms for a Cleveland County youth shelter.
News
Carol Cole-Frowe
Proposed elimination of Cleveland County funding to the area’s emergency youth shelter has the facility’s administration and supporters scrambling to figure out how to keep it open and what other services will have to be reduced.
Go deep
Gardening in a drought might mean you have to dig into the soil a little more.
Sprouting up
Community gardening is on the rise, and it just might save you some money.
Features
Carol Cole-Frowe
It’s time to get serious about planting a garden. Winter has lifted and blooming has begun.
Range war
Residents near a proposed gun range fear what it will mean for the area’s watershed and wildlife.
News
Carol Cole-Frowe
Watershed, wildlife and noise concerns are among issues that residents in rural southeast Oklahoma City believe are reasons not to relocate a shooting range within a mile of their homes.
Clean dirt
Organic gardening is the subject of a free seminar Saturday.
Features
Carol Cole-Frowe
Organic Gardening Seminar
11 a.m. Saturday
OSU-OKC's Agricultural Resources Center
400 N. Portland
osuokc.edu/farmersmarket
945-3358
Free
Water woes
Norman officials search for help in the wake of low water-supply levels.
News
Carol Cole-Frowe
The deepening drought has Central Oklahoma cities scrambling to manage the water they have.
Wig out
From anime conventions to Medieval fairs, a group of metro women has you covered for hair.
Features
Carol Cole-Frowe
Five Wits Artistic Geekery is a metro-area company that sells costume-play (or cosplay) wigs and other wearables designed for anime convention-goers, Renaissance and Medieval fair revelers, drag queens, Lord of the Rings fans, “brony” college students (guys into My Little Pony) and anyone else who wants to play with taking on an alternate identity.
Mayo, my!
Local chef Kurt Fleischfresser fancies up the Oklahoma-based chain, Taco Mayo.
’Shroom zoom
Food and Drink Features
Carol Cole-Frowe
There’s a new grower of gourmet mushrooms in the metro. Oklahoma Mushrooms is ramping up to grow several kinds of fungi.
Building a Legacy
Norman’s Legacy Park is slated to be one entertaining ‘gathering place.’
News
Carol Cole-Frowe
Construction on Norman’s long-awaited Legacy Park is slated to begin in about two months in the heart of the University North Park Town Center on the city’s northwest side.
Passing grade
OU finds positive results from a pilot program that allows a coed housing floor.
News
Carol Cole-Frowe
A coed floor housing choice — two years in the making — appears to be working at the University of Oklahoma.
Quality control
Cities could bear a big bill for Lake Thunderbird pollution.
News
Carol Cole-Frowe
Steep penalties could face the cities of Norman, Oklahoma City and Moore if drastic reductions in stormwater pollutants going into the Lake Thunderbird watershed are not achieved.
Safe room
The conversation about gender-neutral housing at OU continues along a hopeful path for LGBT advocates.
Telling his side
Former Gov. David Hall pens a memoir that contends he was wrongly convicted of bribery and extortion.
Features
Carol Cole-Frowe
David Hall
12 p.m. Saturday
Full Circle Bookstore
1900 Northwest Expressway
fullcirclebooks.com
842-2900
Cheese, please!
Pungent or mild, whatever you fancy, local cheese blocks are full of choices!
Food and Drink Features
Carol Cole-Frowe
Hundreds of delightful cheeses are popping up in markets and grocery stores, from assertive blues to washed-rind Taleggios or fresh, unripened ones like a queso fresco or queso blanco.
