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Phillips66 has donated $1 million to Ponca City Public Schools as part of a community initiative grant. The money will be used to support PCPS’s ambitious STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) facility on the high school campus. It is the single largest donation in history for PCPS. A press conference has been scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, at 3:45 p.m. at the Anderson building at the high school to announce the details of the project.

On Feb. 13, just before 8 pm, the Ponca City Police responded to Meadowbrook Village (2900 N. Union Street) in reference to a male yelling outside his residence and threatening to kill a passerby. The male subject made threats to kill police officers as they arrived at the location, then fled into the residence.

Community problems rarely originate from a single cause. Solving problems requires that everyone work together – schools, nonprofit organizations, foundations, city and state government, and businesses. This is the focus of United Way’s work – bringing people together to create a vision for a healthy community and then to set goals, align programs, activities, strategies and partners, and then measure success by tracking and sharing data, stated J. Berry Harrison United Way president. Harrison spoke before 40 guests at the 85th United Way of North Central Oklahoma’s annual meeting.

The Ponca City Board of Education held their regular monthly meeting on Monday, Feb. 12 at 6 pm.

Derion Schieber is in her happy place. For more than two years, she has served the needs of young mothers and their children across the region at her boutique, The Farm House Kids Co., nestled downtown on Fourth and Grand. She has also seen her sales explode online with customers across the country through her Web site. She now is seeing a much bigger step forward with a new location, a new building, offering her a chance to bring in new merchandise, all from her adorable little boutique in downtown Ponca City.

The newest addition to the Northern Oklahoma College Kinzer Performing Arts Center has officially been displayed. This exhibit will stay in the Kinzer Performing Arts Center until the end of March. This exhibit is an incredible collection filled with artwork from the Bartlesville Art Association. Each piece shows beautiful scenes of nature from artists Cheryl Bryan, Fred Cook, Joey Frisillo, Steven Graham, Amy Jenkins, Jon Landblom, Carolyn Mock, Janet Odden, Anne Spoon, and Cris Sundquist.

THE NORTHERN.

Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah intensified on Wednesday when Israeli towns and an army base came under what appeared to be the fiercest attacks from Lebanon since the confrontation began four months ago.