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• The U.N. Environment Programme estimates that close to 36% of all plastics produced in the world are single-use food and beverage containers. While most of these can be recycled, very few actually are. One way to help is to buy fresh fruits and vegetables unpackaged, unbagged and unwrapped. Avoid pre-washed salad mixes, precut fruit and cling-wrapped fresh produce. And opt for eggs in cardboard over plastic containers; paper cartons are most likely made from recycled paper.
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- Festival of Lights gears up again
- Rural broadband expanding
- More than 200 pounds of pot seized
- Senior looks to join medical field after college
- Blackburn wins football picks contest
pounds of pot seized
On Monday the Oklahoma Broadband Office (OBO) and Dobson Fiber launched eight projects aimed at “high-speed internet expansion in rural Oklahoma.” The cost of the projects will total $17.3 million with $11.6 million of the funding coming from “federal grants administered by the OBO”; and should “connect 1,829 homes and businesses with broadband internet using fiber optic technology.” In addition to Custer County, the projects will target the counties of Atoka, Beckham, Garvin, Grady, Greer, Muskogee, and Washita.
Ryan Butterfield with PSO works on repairing a blown fuse Monday near Modelle Avenue and Gary Boulevard that left several buildings in the area without power for a short time.
The annual Festival of Lights and the Chocolate Festival will be returning Dec. 3 to downtown Clinton.
Clinton Regional Hospital auxiliary volunteer Lavonne Holmes, left, and Debra Mendez, director of volunteers, puts the finishing touches on one of the Christmas trees at the hospital. The auxiliary sold four trees to be decorated to local businesses for $200 each and four wreathes for $75 each. Mendez said all of the proceeds go back to the hospital. She said in the last 10 years the auxiliary has raised $272,778 for the hospital.
Attorney General Gentner Drummond is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to improve its Robocall Mitigation Database that could reduce illegal robocalls. He is working with 46 other attorneys general to close a loophole in the database that allows bad actors to have access to the U.S. telephone network.