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AERIAL DRONE PHOTOS BY JOHN D’AGUANNO
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Dana Johnson of Tupelo Public Schools was recently selected to receive a bushel basket of accurate agriculture books as part of Oklahoma Farm Bureau’s Bushels for Books program. A collaboration between the OKFB Foundation for Agriculture and the OKFB Women’s Leadership Committee, Bushels for Books is designed to spread agriculture literacy to children around the state through providing a selection of books that accurately portray the agriculture industry.
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Tupelo Police arrested a man on October 6 that they later learned is wanted by ICE (U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement).
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1781 – British General Cornwallis surrenders at the siege of Yorktown. With the surrender, fighting in the colonies during the American Revolution came to an end. General George Washington’s Continental Army had trapped Cornwallis’ British troops in Yorktown in September. The British held out for nearly a month before surrendering nearly 8,000 men, 144 canons and over 40 ships. The following Spring peace negotiations began in Paris, and in 1783 the Treaty of Paris officially recognized the independence of the United States of America.
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7th & 8th TRACK
Read moreIt seems like every time I turn around, an editor assigns me a story related to the mental health crises of our children. Most of the health experts I speak to correlate Covid lockdowns and our children’s fragile state. Closing schools played a major role in this phenomenon, but what if other crucial factors are being overlooked?
Read moreThirteen Coal County 4-H members had 29 county fair exhibits that qualified for the Tulsa State Fair. County fairs and state fairs are two of the greatest educational institutions today. Fairs stimulate interest in the improvement of livestock, crops, home practices and self-improvement goals.
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