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Duncan's Charis Center Brings Back Comedian for 11th Comedy and Coffee Fundraiser
The Charis Center is bringing back the comedian who started it all. Mike Williams, the first comedian at the pregnancy resource center's fundraiser in 2016, will return to the stage on Thursday, Nov. 12, as the Duncan nonprofit hosts its 11th Annual Comedy and Coffee fundraiser at the Max Gallaway Convention Hall at the Stephens County Fairgrounds.
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‘Don’t Call it a Costume’ Say Mountain Man Re-enactors at Living History Days in Lawton
LAWTON, OKLAHOMA — Ask a real American Mountain Man like Brad McCaffree how to start a fire the 1840’s way and he can do the job just like the originals did. “If you put an ember in this cambion bark from a cottonwood tree and blow into it,” he explains, “you’ll get fire.” Look around […]
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Anadarko Students Launch First Newscast at Nation's Oldest Native Boarding School
Students at Riverside Indian School in Anadarko have started producing their own television newscast, called The Side Talk, giving the historic boarding school a daily student-run broadcast with anchors, co-hosts and editors pulled straight from the classroom. The program airs new episodes most mornings and covers school news, announcements and student voices.
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Tuttle Skies Fill With 13 Hot Air Balloons This Weekend, Free to Watch
Thirteen hot air balloons are set to rise over Tuttle, Oklahoma this weekend as Coal Creek Winery & Event Center kicks off its third annual Balloon Fest. The free two-day festival runs Friday, October 30 and Saturday, October 31, bringing kite shows, food trucks, vendors and a weather-dependent lineup of balloon flights and helicopter rides to the winery grounds.
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Jimmy Webb's Oklahoma homecoming concert premieres on PBS this Friday
(This story has been updated with new information, photos and video.) STILLWATER — On a starry February night, the McKnight Center for the Performing Arts was packed not just with music lovers but with legendary talent, Oklahoma luminaries and television cameras and crew. "We're thrilled to be here in Oklahoma. So far, everybody has been friendly and helpful, which is very different than where I'm from in New York. I'm not used to this," producer Philip W. Hack joked with the sold-out crowd before the show began. "One little caveat, since you're going to be on camera tonight, I just want to make sure that you're not here with somebody you shouldn't be. And if you are, now's a good time to switch seats with your neighbor. I know you're going to be an enthusiastic audience." Indeed, when Songwriters Hall of Famer Jimmy Webb took the stage, his home-state crowd was up on its feet before he could even launch into his 1967 breakthrough hit "Up, Up and Away ." "Very, very happy to be back in Oklahoma tonight — I say back in Oklahoma because I started in Oklahoma 80 years ago," Webb said after landing the record-setting smash