November 2022

For years, snow days used to mean days off from school. Kids from the older generations would wake up in the morning waiting anxiously to see the name of their school appeared on the closure list at the bottom of the screen.

When we garden, we are “messing” with Mother Nature, often going against her wishes as we struggle to grow plants for our pleasure. This is a good time to step back and plan for next year’s garden, and landscape so you will be ready to implement methods to make your gardening life easier and better once the new gardening season arrives.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Chickasaw Nation warriors laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery during a recent trip to Washington, D.C., in honor of Veterans Day.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in October for the ninth consecutive month to the slowest pre-pandemic sales pace in more than 10 years as homebuyers grappled with sharply higher mortgage rates, rising home prices and fewer properties on the market.

ARDMORE and TISHOMINGO — Murray State College selected their Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges (OACC) state faculty, staff and support staff of the year awards. Susan Yeager, Murray State College Dean of Arts and Humanities and the Communication & Performance Studies program chair, was selected as Murray’s Faculty of the Year.

NEW YORK (AP) — A day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would step aside, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York launched a history-making bid Friday to become the first Black person to helm a major political party in Congress as leader of the House Democrats.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Negotiators say they have struck a potential breakthrough deal on the thorniest issue of United Nations climate talks in Egypt: the creation of a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon pollution.

PHOENIX (AP) — The board overseeing a southeastern Arizona county whose Republican leaders had hoped to recount all Election Day ballots on Friday delayed certifying the results of last week’s vote after hearing from a trio of conspiracy theorists who alleged that counting machines were not certified.