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Every year, the current Leadership Ponca City class will select a project as a means to give back to and assist the community. This project is often the culmination of all that the class has learned throughout their time together, and in past, has manifested in projects such as statues, benches, fundraisers, and scholarships.

Ponca City has a vibrant downtown shopping district. From cute little boutiques, restaurants and education to the administration of Ponca City, there is something everyone can enjoy along Grand Avenue and surrounding streets. Many of those buildings have a long history of their own, with multiple businesses welcoming generations of shoppers in their respective facilities. Those facades have changed through the decades, with older fronts not seen by younger generations, but Ponca City Main Street (PCMS) is unveiling a new program today, allowing everyone, young and old to see modern Grand Avenue in an historic perspective, with the release of the PCMS Time Frame program.

Japan’s ruling party lost a special election Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had described in part as a judgment on himself, months ahead of a party leadership vote. Public anger over a slush fund scandal helped the main opposition candidate Akiko Kamei defeat the Liberal Democratic Party’s Norimasa Nishikori by about 83,000 votes to 58,000 in what had been a party stronghold in Shimane prefecture.

BALTIMORE — As the Dali slid out of its berth at the Port of Baltimore in the early hours of March 26, it wasn’t alone. A pair of 5,000-horsepower tugboats guided the massive container ship into the deep channel in the Patapsco River, pointing it toward the Chesapeake Bay as it began its voyage to Sri Lanka.

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