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Earlier this year the Ardmore Development Authority released the results of a comprehensive housing study that found a demonstrable need for new housing across all product types and in most price ranges. One of the greatest needs, however, is for single family homes that sell for less than $200,000 dollars to fit within the budgets of middle-class and first time buyers.

Auditions will be held for Carousel Productions summer season at the Brass Ring beginning Monday May 9. The musicals that will be presented this summer are Annie Kids for students going into Kindergarten through fourth grade, Legally Blonde Jr. for students going into fifth through eighth grade and Honeymoon In Vegas for students going into high school.

LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — Weather conditions described as potentially historic were on tap for New Mexico on Saturday and for the next several days as over 1,400 firefighters and a fleet of airplanes and helicopters worked feverishly to bolster lines around the largest fire burning in the U.S.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Jill Biden heard heartbreaking stories Saturday from Ukrainian women and children who fled Russia’s war and found safe haven in Romania, with one mother telling the U.S. first lady of a harrowing escape after being holed up in a cramped, cold basement with her traumatized 8-year-old daughter.

NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Kidd Creole, who was a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death on a New York City street.

To scalp or not to scalp, that is the question. The Bermuda grass is “waking up”, and spring is in the air, so should you scalp your lawn to get it ready for the growing season? No, not if you want a thick, healthy, relatively weed-free lawn. The rule for mowing turfgrass is to remove no more than 1/3 of the aboveground leaf in a single mowing. Scalping can often remove 50% or more, and research has shown that removing more than 40% of turfgrass leaf tissue in one mowing can stop root growth for up to two weeks. Spring is a very important time for turfgrass root growth, and the more roots your lawn develops in the spring, the better it will withstand drought and other stress conditions throughout the summer. Scalping the lawn early in the growing season when weeds are germinating like crazy, provides them the perfect environment to grow and become established without competition from lawn grass. The best way to have a lawn without many weeds - you’ll never have one with no weeds - is to use good cultural practices. A thick, healthy lawn will crowd out most weeds.