Despite being blind since he was 40, Benny Meier runs marathons. Meier runs side by side with a partner, Jack Rector, an 82-year-old marathon runner. Each person holds onto the end of a short rope. Rector describes the course and any obstacles to Meier. “As long as there’s someone that’ll tell me to pick up […]
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Media overlooking new John Marshall High’s positives, say OKC officials
Controversy raged when the new John Marshall High School opened last August. A district official said dozens of parents pulled their children from the unfinished facility in an exodus to private and charter schools. Discipline concerns sparked further debate, and, this spring, some called for change, even if that meant temporarily closing the school. THE […]
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OKC Lightning women’s football team racking up impressive record
Like the Oklahoma City Dolls three decades ago, the Oklahoma City Lightning gives local women the opportunity to play football. Having appeared in two world championships and earning a 38-6 record in its six-year history, The Lightning kicks off its next season April 21 against Dallas. “Oklahoma loves a winner. You keep winning, eventually you […]
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Oklahoma Spring Game features psychedelic grass
The ESPN commentators estimated more than 40,000 Sooner football fans showed up to watch the team play the Spring Game at Owen Field. With the out-of-season cold snap, fans were wearing the same winter-weather gear as the team’s Big XII Conference Championship game. (That was the last game of the season, right?) The biggest development […]
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Hornets beat Sonics, ho-hum
When the entertainment highlight of a professional basketball game is the announcers showing off a Desmond Mason bobblehead or the sideline reporters’ third-quarter interview with a beekeeper, the on-court action must not be very exciting. But with the team playing to stay in the playoff chase, Wednesday’s Ford Center game should have been riveting. Hornets starters […]
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Oklahoma student wins poetry award
High school competition helps keep poetry alive Established in 2005 by the National Endowment for the Arts, the “Poetry Out Loud” competition encourages high school students to memorize and recite some of the world’s greatest poems in a performance setting. This year, 200,000 high school students from across the country ” more than 1,600 from […]
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White wines awaiting discovery at OKC metro restaurants
Metro restaurants are introducing interesting white wines to charm diners’ palates. CHARDONNAYChardonnay remains the No. 1-selling white wine in America. With flavor profiles like green apple, pear, citrus and melon, a good Chardonnay leaves many consumers with long-lasting impressions. It is perhaps one of the most adaptable grapes in wine production today. FRASCATIFrascati remains the […]
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OKC 1955 high school football game paved way for integrated schools
On Nov. 3, 1955, with a crowd of more than 8,000, Douglass faced off against Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City’s first integrated high school sporting event. The long-awaited matchup served to bridge the chasm that had widened due to segregation laws that were a product of the time. Black athletes had made substantial strides on […]
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TurboTax taking bite out of tax prep business, but not Oklahoma CPAs
Commercials for TurboTax’s do-it-yourself software suggest they’re putting tax preparers out of business. How realistic are they? Tonya Miller, store manager of Liberty Tax Service at 5610 Northwest Expressway, said such software has affected business “to a point.” “With those that are actually competent enough to know how to use the software, it has,” Miller […]