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The Shawshank Redemption takes the Ponca Playhouse stage for the second time this weekend. From Fri., Jan.

How to deal with works from problematic creators Well, I gave some warning last week we’d be covering a “not-sofun” topic, and here is me making due on that promise. Have you ever had a piece of fiction, be it movie, show or book, you really enjoy only to find out the author or an actor involved said or did something terrible? Did it change your outlook on that particular work? I ask this as we are roughly a week and a half away from the highly anticipated Hogwarts Legacy video game, a game that promises the chance to experience the Wizarding World first hand.

CITY ADMINISTRATION NEWS OPEN INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PLANS Cimarron Public Transit is hosting public transit forums in February for public comments to assist with the development of the public transportation and Title VI Nondiscrimination and Limited English Proficiency Plans for FY 2024.

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Ponca City, OK ----- The Pioneer Technology Center (PTC) Children’s Lab has once again received accreditation through the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) program. Oklahoma has only 53 early childhood programs that boast this accomplishment. This honor signifies high standards of early childhood education for the Children’s Lab. For nearly 90 years, NAEYC has worked to raise the quality of programs for all children from birth through age eight. A major part of the association’s efforts is to improve early childhood education through different systems of accreditation for programs that are committed to meeting national standards of quality.

I’d like to share a story. My paternal grandparents loved to go out for Chinese food and their favorite place to eat at as a Chinese restaurant that used to be over by Midwest Music in Enid that I believe at the time was called The China Wok (if anyone recalled the name of the place, it would’ve been around in the late 90s/early 2000s).