Local teens work to help clean up the former Stratford Nursing Home, which has been empty for over 12 years. The facility is being remodeled to host youth aging out of foster care, at-risk women and children, and widows in crisis.

Photo courtesy of Sheryl Kochert

EC-P logo

Compassion Church Pauls Valley logo

Pictured from left to right are Charlie Mackey, Oklahoma Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association; Meredeth Kueck, who accepted award on behalf of Michael Brown; Officer Sara Miller; Officer Kyler Truett; and Lighthorse Chief of Police Michael Manning.

Most of Oklahoma’s native spiders, like this orb-weaver, aren’t as dangerous as a brown recluse or black widow. (Photo by Todd Johnson, OSU Agricultural Communications Services.)