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Bank Earnings: What It Told Us About the Economy Last weekend, I was coaching my kids’ youth baseball team in a tournament. They didn’t play perfect baseball, far from it.

Cimarron Valley Bulletin Board

May 7 Drumright Tornado Football parent and player meeting, HS library, 6:30 p.m.June 6 Drumright Monthly Market, 301 E Broadway St., 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.MANNFORD April 23 Lake church hosts a Disclosure Conference at 35903 W Highway 51, 7pm. To 9 p.m.

Adventures with Allie

There’s a certain kind of quiet you only find in a smalltown library.Not the stiff, intimidating quiet people joke about, no stern shushing or side-eyes over a turned page, but a soft, steady kind of quiet. The kind that makes room for imagination. The kind that feels like being safe.

Prioritize the arts

In conversations about education, the arts are often treated as expendable. Programs to be trimmed when budgets tighten or priorities shift. That thinking is not just shortsighted; it’s fundamentally wrong.The arts are not a distraction from learning. They are learning.

Adventures with Allie

There’s a moment now, quiet, almost invisible, when you walk into a place that used to hand you something, and instead, it asks you to scan.A small square sits where paper once lived. A QR code taped to a church door. Another propped up on a restaurant table.

Horticulture Tips for April

Home Grown Here are a few horticulture tips for April.• The Payne County Master Gardener will be at the Herb and Succulent Fest on May 2 at The Botanic Garden at OSU to answer your gardening questions.

Early Budget Agreement Mostly Good for State’s Children

For the Children Gov. Kevin Stitt and Republican leaders from the state Legislature announced a budget agreement last week. The Fiscal Year 27 (FY27) budget proposal totals $12.8 billion, an increase of 1.52% or nearly $200 million over the current fiscal year's budget.

The road to home

Recently, I found myself driving down an old dirt road that led me home in more ways than one.I began chasing a fire — as it is seemingly the nature of a journalist to run towards fire.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Editor Dear Editor, Why I’m voting for opportunity Although opportunity doesn’t always mean success, in the case of Central Tech, it actually does. A vast majority of the students gain employment upon graduation.My daughter was one of them.

Expanding Central Tech opens doors for our students and communities

Over the course of my career, as a veterinarian, small business owner, Mayor of Cushing, state representative and now Payne County treasurer, I’ve had the privilege of seeing what makes communities strong.