Well, 2020 certainly has no shortage of surprises, and what better way to further fray the narrow band between reality and a mass psychotic break than a freak ice storm knocking out electricity to half a million customers during the first cold snap of the season. OG&E stood back as tree limbs and their infrastructure […]
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OKC Zoo and OG&E launch statewide library program, Read for Adventure
Read for Adventure, the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden’s statewide literacy program, continues for its fourth year with an exciting change that will have participants all a flutter! Sponsored by OG&E, this year’s program features a new, original children’s book, Juniper’s Butterfly Garden–A Small Start for a Better World. Beginning Wednesday, July 8, Oklahoma […]
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PRESS RELEASE OG&E customers have flexible payment plans available as company prepares to resume service disconnects
OG&E announced that after nearly four months of a voluntary moratorium, it is preparing to resume electric service disconnects for non-payment. The company voluntarily suspended disconnection for non-payment in March as Governor Stitt and local leaders instituted Safer-at-Home orders to slow the spread of COVID-19. “Some customers struggled with the economic effects of COVID-19 and […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Rolling blackout
Paseo Arts District businesses and surrounding residences lost power over the holidays, and disappointingly, not because of some screwball National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation-esque Christmas-light mishap either. “A pickup truck crashed into a large transmission line pole at N.W. 30th Street and Hudson Avenue … radiating damage to a mile of poles along 30th,” reported Oklahoma […]
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Sungrown life
While cannabis might be as new of a crop for Guthrie Greenhouses as it is any other Oklahoma farmer, it has the advantage of having more than a century’s worth of experience in horticulture at its site. “Capital City Greenhouse first started in 1892 with the Furrow and Son Company, and they had it until […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Scrappy Don’t
It’s a scenario worthy of The Wire, except with, you know, way more actual wires. Oklahoma City utilities officials and police officers are, according to a report by KOCO anchor Evan Onstot, “pulling their hair out” over what mayor David Holt called an “epidemic” of copper wiring theft that has disabled streetlights along sections of […]
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Strong foundation
Mary Golda Ross Elementary School bilingual assistant Elizabeth Claudio, 26, had never met the president of The Foundation for Oklahoma City Public Schools when she received an email from her a few years ago. But the email, she said, led her to believe that the woman must be an angel. It basically asked Oklahoma City […]
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OG&E brought light to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico
OG&E brought light to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.
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Efforts are underway to help Oklahoma capitalize on solar potential
Oklahoma City was ranked at the city with the eighth moth solar potential in the country by Google’s Project Sunroof program.
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Chicken-Fried News: Treasured trees
A man in southwest OKC came home to find ten of his trees chopped down, and he isn’t happy about it.