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Chicken-Fried News: G.O.A.T. lawn care

Oklahoma City’s most unusual, cutest and — face it — coolest employees are back in action. That’s right; our very own goat herd lawn crew is back to clearing out overgrowth at Hefner Canal. The city posted on Twitter that its “little grass munchers” were clearing out invasive species along the canal that transports water […]

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Water hogs

This summer, the city implemented mandatory rationing after water pressure levels dropped, and a nearly statewide drought also has caused some of the reservoirs to drop. On Oct. 11, the city announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was releasing 30,000 acre-feet of water from Canton Lake into the North Canadian River to increase […]

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Paddling proponent

Abowitz wasn’t the first person to try to share rowing with Oklahoma, but he did help the sport gain its footing in Oklahoma City long before it was a well-known phenomenon.  “Oklahoma comes late to these things,” Abowitz said of rowing. The sport hooked Abowitz at the University of Pennsylvania, but when he came to […]

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Under pressure

Very hot. So it was last week that the city, for the first time in more than a decade, implemented a mandatory odd-even water rotation program. Update: On Tuesday, July 19 the City of Oklahoma City announced via press release that the temporary outdoor watering ban for NW and NE areas will end at noon, […]

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