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On June 28, 1969, plainclothed New York Police Officers raided the Stonewall Inn in New York City. Police raids on known gay bars were common at the time. What had become regular, tolerated, and even city sanctioned harassment by the police department, was pushed against by the patrons at the Stonewall Inn.

The Northern Oklahoma Humane Society welcomes their new Executive Director, Karlissa Archibeque. Karlissa has shown her extreme dedication to the NOKHS organization since 2020, acting as a volunteer, Board Member, and in 2022, Board President. In the last year she has played a crucial role in augmenting the impact of the Trap Neuter Return Program she helped initiate in 2020, which is now incredibly successful. With that program, Karlissa and her team of volunteers were able to spay and neuter over 1000 community cats in Kay County.

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There was a festive atmosphere at the Kay County Treasurer’s office in Newkirk June 29. Employees from across the Kay County Administration Building and Extension Office gathered at 2 p.m. for punch, cake and cookies, wishing County Treasury Secretary Christi Kennedy the best of wishes as she seeks a new life in retirement.

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WASHINGTON — In another major reversal, the Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action policies at colleges and universities that use race as a factor in deciding who is admitted. In a pair of decisions, the six conservative justices ruled that Harvard, the nation’s oldest private college, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the oldest state university, were illegally discriminating based on race and violating the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.