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  • Seed exchange planned

    Every day brings spring a day closer, meaning it’s time to start thinking about and planting spring vegetable and flower gardens....

    February 10, 2012

  • OK-FIRE workshop coming to Norman

    A full-day OK-FIRE computer training workshop will be March 16 at the National Weather Center in Norman. Dr. J.D. Carlson, OSU fire meteorologist and OK-FIRE program director, will direct the workshop. Training will begin at 9:30 a.m. and ...

    February 10, 2012

  • Wheelock receives Girl Scouts award

    Girl Scouts-Western Oklahoma presented Brenda Wheelock of Norman with the Frances Hesselbein Award at the organization’s recent annual meeting. The award is named for a woman who changed Girl Scouts of the United States of America when ...

    February 10, 2012

  • Weed control is important in lawns

    Did your lawn fall under attack from weeds last year? Do you want to get a head start on controlling them this year? Or maybe you are thinking about doing your own lawn care instead of hiring out? It seems that weed control is on ...

    February 10, 2012

  • BORDERS1 new new front persp w new sign.jpg Looking for room to grow

    Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series exploring the challenges facing the Pioneer Library System and, more specifically, Norman Public Library. See yesterday’s story at normantranscript.com....

    February 6, 2012 1 Photo

  • Eastside library satellite distant

    As property purchases and preliminary designs slowly but surely bring Norman closer to its dream of three public library service sites, the potential face and nature of an eastside satellite is a vision waiting for funding....

    February 5, 2012

  • borders interior perspective page 3.jpg Pioneer Library System proposes new partnership with Norman

    Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series exploring the challenges facing the Pioneer Library System and, more specifically, Norman Public Library. The series concludes Monday. It was a bad news, good news scenario....

    February 5, 2012 1 Photo

  • Blue Thumb Training in Norman Blue Thumb volunteers help keep Norman green

    Norman could get a little help monitoring water pollution in the near future. Volunteers trained by Blue Thumb may be monitoring Bishop Creek and Merkle Creek soon....

    January 30, 2012 1 Photo

  • 20120128_choco4.jpg Chocolate inspiration

    The Firehouse Art Center’s 30th Annual Chocolate Festival was a near sell-out. The money raised Saturday will benefit art education at the Firehouse. “Awesome,” said Loise, Kamryn and Doris Johnson, first year attendees at the festival....

    January 29, 2012 10 Photos

  • ‘Joe the Plumber’ speaks in Moore

    MOORE - While he wasn’t carrying a wrench and a plunger, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher — a.k.a. “Joe the Plumber” — offered a pumped-up Tea Party crowd in Moore a lot of common sense and “Average Joe” ideas on a blustery Friday night....

    January 29, 2012

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