Celebrate the Fourth of July weekend at Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant with free live country music and a fireworks show at Choctaw’s CenterStage.

Performances of the show “Crowns” will continue at 7 tonight and Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Goddard Center. Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for students and can be reserved by calling (580) 223-6387. Pictured are, from left, Debra Johnson, Erica Jones and Cheryl Hamilton.

There’s a legacy brewing at the Southern Oklahoma Ambulance Service in Ardmore. It started with John Losson, who started work on July 31, 1990.

In the past six years, his two oldest sons — 26-year-old Cody and 21-year-old Derick — have followed in his footsteps and have taken jobs in the emergency care business.

At 2 p.m. on July 9, area youth will have the opportunity to build and fly hot air balloons at the Chickasaw Regional Library System Headquarters.

The Lone Grove Class of 1989 reunion committee has announced plans for the class’ 20th reunion.

Jared Chastain, Arthur Dixon and Katherine Habeck had the once-in-a-lifetime experience of studying with a Star Trek star, a U.S. poet laureate and a Grammy Award-winner this summer.

Members of the Ardmore Rainbow Assembly No. 141 attended the cornerstone dedication recently at the Greater Southwest Historical Museum.

The South Central Oklahoma Lupus Support Group meets the first Thursday of each month. The next meeting will be at 7 p.m. on Thursday in the Main Street Church of Christ, 408 E. Main St.

Just two more days until our half-price adoption fee on cats and kittens expires!

For anyone struggling with depression or bipolar disorder, The Friends of Hope support group can help.