Managing Editor pdj@reidnewspapers.com Morrison FFA students recently competed in the Collegiate FFA Speech Contest. Results for the Collegiate FFA Speech Contest were as follows: • Callen Veit- 1st Place Ag Policy • Sydney Morgan- 2nd Place Agriscience • Piper Roberts- 2nd Place 8/9 Grade FFA Opp.

Perry Public Schools site counselors Tiffany Nelson, Perry High School, LeEllen Waren, Perry Junior High, Dana Hatter, Upper Elementary, and Melissa Turner, Lower Elementary, recently released information on the Steered Straight program visiting PPS.

Brunswick stew was a specialty of my father’s, and his recipe was his mother’s which dated back to her grandmother way before the Civil War. The original started out: “Skin a squirrel, rabbit, or get a good chicken if no game is available ...” Actually, my father had traced our ancestry all the way back to before the first Alstons came to America in the 1600’s.

The Kingdom of Madagascar was an independent nation that came under French rule because the French thought the island was a great strategic location. They removed the monarchy that ruled Madagascar and imposed colonial rule. During that first year of French occupation, revolts arose but were quickly squashed. A nationalist movement grew too, under different names across the island.

In one of the most sensational trials in American history, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II. The husband and wife were later sentenced to death and were executed in 1953.

This recipe has been a long-time family favorite. Granny used to make the best plum cobbler and jelly. After she passed away in 2004, her recipe box disappeared. After a few years, some of her recipes would pop up mysteriously. I was so thrilled when Mom found this one in a box of my great-aunt’s things.

(StatePoint) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lifelong chronic lung disease that makes it difficult to breathe, and is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States. According to experts, the more knowledge a patient with COPD has about the disease, the better off they will be.

Most people know that no two humans have the same DNA. But did you realize that’s true for strawberries, too? That was one lesson learned by fifth-graders Zunaira Guffer and Henrietta Robinson, two of about 30 Putnam City Schools students who conducted science experiments this week at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

Oklahoma State University’s Pesticide Safety Education Program will partner with the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry to host two unwanted pesticide disposal days in the Oklahoma communities of Altus and Shawnee.

A number of students from across the state who designed and constructed wind turbines as part of the Oklahoma KidWind Challenge at Northern Oklahoma College Tonkawa. The challenge will be Saturday, March 30, from 9 a.m.