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Ponca City Refinery Impacted by Cold Weather

Tuesday, February 16 by Lyman James

The Ponca City Refinery experienced a number of cold-weather related issues that forced a partial shut-down of multiple units on February 15, 2021. The refinery has fence line and community monitoring in place. The ongoing monitoring has shown no impact to the community.The refinery will be restarting multiple units over the next several days.... Read More.

508 new COVID-19 cases, 20 deaths and 2,121 new recoveries for Oklahoma on Tuesday

Tuesday, February 16 by Lyman James

The Oklahoma State Department of Health is reporting 508 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, Feb. 16. Oklahoma’s seen 414,780 COVID-19 cases overall as 19,563 cases are active. The number of active cases is 1,633 less than Monday.Twenty additional virus-related deaths were documented Tuesday to put Oklahoma’s death toll to 4,061.Kay County saw just one... Read More.

SPP issues Emergency Alert Level 3 Tuesday morning

Tuesday, February 16 by Lyman James

SPP announced Tuesday morning that they are declaring an Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) Level 3 effective immediately for their entire 14-state balancing authority area, including Oklahoma. System-wide generating capacity has dropped below the current load of approximately 42 gigawatts (GW) due to extremely low temperatures and inadequate supplies of natural gas.SPP will be working... Read More.

Ponca City High School Mock Trial Team Advances to Quarterfinals Third Year in a Row

Monday, February 15 by Lyman James

The Ponca City Senior High Mock Trial team advanced to quarterfinals for the 3rd year in a row. This year’s competition is a little different as it is entirely virtual. Students competed February 2nd against McAlester and Moore. They defeated Moore two ballots to one but lost to McAlester three ballots to zero. Despite only winning... Read More.

Ponca City Public School District Announces Distance Learning for February 16

Monday, February 15 by Lyman James

All Ponca City Public School students will participate in Distance Learning on Tuesday, February 16, due to continued extreme weather and hazardous road conditions. Teachers will communicate with students through Google Classroom or site Facebook pages. If we experience controlled electric service interruptions, Distance Learning will resume as power becomes available. We may not have advanced... Read More.

NOC Northern Encounter event at Enid postponed

Monday, February 15 by Lyman James

The Northern Oklahoma College Northern Encounter event for Wednesday, Feb. 17 at NOC Enid has been postponed. The event will be made up at a later date. Events at NOC Tonkawa and NOC Stillwater have also been postponed due to weather. NOC traditionally holds events on all three campuses for high school juniors and... Read More.

Less than 800 new COVID-19 cases reported by OSDH on Monday

Monday, February 15 by Lyman James

The Oklahoma State Department of Health is reporting 730 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, Feb. 15. Oklahoma's seen 414,272 COVID-19 cases overall as 21,196 cases are active. The number of active cases is 485 less than Sunday.Seventeen additional virus-related deaths were documented Monday to put Oklahoma's death toll to 4,041. One death being for... Read More.

Urgent Need: Volunteers and Supplies Needed at The Rose Stone Inn

Monday, February 15 by Lyman James

U R G E N TThe Rose Stone Inn, at 120 South 3rd Street in downtown Ponca City, has opened its doors as a shelter for the homeless and those in need of shelter during this winter storm. Volunteers and supplies are desperately needed.Churches and individuals, your help would make a huge difference. Thanks... Read More.

Energy Emergency Alert Level 3 issued for the region

Monday, February 15 by Lyman James

The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) declared an Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) Level 3 at 10:08 a.m.An EEA3 signals that SPP is operating with reserves below the required minimum and may mean that SPP directs power suppliers to curtail energy use through controlled interruptions of service. That request has not been made at this time,... Read More.

NOC Child Development and Scholarship Program

Monday, February 15 by Lyman James

For the past 20 years Northern Oklahoma College has participated the scholarship program, Scholars for Excellence in Child Care, the goal of the program is to improve the quality of childcare for the children of Oklahoma by educating the workforce. The scholarship is managed through a partnership with the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education,... Read More.

Former NOC Maverick dies in auto accident

Monday, February 15 by Lyman James

A fatality collision Sunday afternoon took the life of former NOC Tonkawa Maverick basketball player Chelvin Webb, 24. (Read full story here)Webb, a 2016 NOC graduate, was originally from Moore, Oklahoma. He was awarded the NOC Jared Weiberg Endowed Scholarship for the 2014-15 academic year.“Chelvin was one of the hardest working players I’ve... Read More.

Kay County Jr. Livestock Show moved to Feb. 22-26

Monday, February 15 by Lyman James

The following is from the Kay County 4-H Facebook page regarding the Kay County Jr. Live stock show:Hello Kay County Showmen,This is an update from the Livestock Show Committee. As you know the show has been moved to the week of February 22-26, 2021 at the Blackwell Show Barn and Event Center. We are not... Read More.