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Ponca City High School 2024 graduate Jackson Sheffield is this year’s recipient of the Robert E. Moore Tradition of Excellence Scholarship. Sheffield was surprised by the announcement during the Po-Hi Chorale’s spring school concert on Monday evening, May 13th. A selection committee consisting of Mr. Moore, Chorale Director Chad Keilman, and five Chorale alumni spanning the years 1973 to 1997, selected Sheffield to receive the one-time $1,500 scholarship.

The Kay County Healthy Living Coalition (KCHLC) is offering free signage to dispensaries in Kay County as part of an effort to educate dispensary owners, employees, customers, and the broader community on current regulations regarding the legal purchase and use of medical marijuana.

Bills to charge more shoplifting offenses as felonies and mandate lenient prison sentences for domestic violence survivors are in limbo with three weeks to go in the legislative session, but several other criminal justice measures have been signed into law.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to allies to provide Ukraine with airdefense batteries to shield its second-biggest city as Russia launched a largescale offensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region.

Cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas have reached an impasse following the Jewish state’s ground offensive on the outskirts of the Gazan city of Rafah, according to Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.

THE PONCA City Trailblazers Rotary Club held their first annual Crawfest fundraiser at the City Central building on Saturday, May 11 from 6 pm to 10 pm.

Ponca Playhouse announces its final regular season show for the 2023-24 season with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer-winning masterpiece which originally opened on May 2, 1984. The Playhouse production will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the musical and the 140th anniversary of the painting by Georges Seurat, a French Post-Impressionist artist. The painting, titled “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of a La Grande Jatte”, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-Impressionism and is one of the icons of late 19th century painting. The painting is part of the collection at The Art Institute of Chicago where it has been on view since it was acquired in 1924.