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Landscaping tips to conserve water

STILLWATER – While it does help to have a green thumb, keeping a landscape irrigated is key in successful gardening. The amount and frequency that gardeners water can make a big difference in plant health. These factors also have an impact on the pocketbook.

FAITH CALENDAR

First Baptist Church Services and study opportunities Sunday at First Baptist Church include sanctuary services 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Employees make sacrifices caring for dying co-worker

DEAR ABBY: A co-worker has been stricken with multiple stage-4 cancers. We all have been compassionate and caring, supporting him through the challenges of treatment and the side effects. His condition is terminal, in the final stage and deteriorating rapidly. He does have a supportive family, but we don’t have the heart to send him home and take away the only thing that gives him his reason to live -- his work. So we spend our time providing hospice care, something none of us have any training for.

Review: Great voice cast anchors ‘DC League of Super-Pets’

DC films have a reputation for being a little too self-serious. They’ve made significant strides to chip away at that dark and dour image in recent years, but it lingers even with things like “The LEGO Batman Movie.” Sometimes it’s even easy to forget that when it comes down to it, superheroes are for kids.

TODAY

Today is the 210th day of 2022 and the 39th day of summer. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1899, the first Hague Conventions defining the “laws of war” were signed.

LOFT suggests changes to education funding formula, OCAS reporting

Lawmakers should adjust the Oklahoma education funding formula by providing additional money to school districts with high concentrations of poverty and through amending the definition of “bilingual” to match the definition of “English learners” for financial purposes, according to a report presented to legislative leaders Tuesday.

Guide a first-time hunter for youth deer season

Increasing the number of new hunters in the field is important to continuing the American hunting tradition. The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation engages in activities to create new hunters, and supports the efforts of conservation partners also working to support America’s hunting heritage.