Schools take funding hit

The Department of Education earlier this month handed out mid-term adjustments to funding allocations and between Pottawatomie and Lincoln Counties only one district received an increase. Chandler took the largest hit of the nine public school districts in Lincoln County.

Child abuse charges filed

Two people from Harrah have been charged with multiple child sexual abuse crimes following their arrest in early January. Amanda D. Bond-Langston, 32, and Jeremy C. Barnes, Sr., 36, each face six counts of child sexual abuse and one count each of child neglect.

A different kind of farm south of Meeker

When Oklahoma Green To Gold Recycling LLC co-owner Darrel Armer first walked into a worm farm, he put a clothes pin on his nose, thinking that worm farms must smell awful. He was in for a pleasant surprise. “The worm poop, or castings, is about the purest form of dirt,” Armer said.