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OKLAHOMA CITY – Watonga Republican staffers attended a two-day convention in Oklahoma City this past weekend with representatives of newspapers from across the state. The Republican walked away with four first-place awards at the Saturday-night ceremony that caps the annual Oklahoma Press Association convention, taking top honors for news content as well as design, sales and photography awards.

Asteroid 115492 Watonga is named to honor the town in Oklahoma where I was born and raised. Watonga is located on former Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Reservation lands that were allotted to individual tribal members and the excess opened to white settlers in the Land Run of 1892, and is named after Arapaho Chief Watonga, whose name means "Black Coyote.” Currently in Gemini lingering just above the setting Sun at magnitude 20.9, this object has a diameter of about 4 miles.

Registered voters who become physically incapacitated after 5 p.m. Monday, June 13, 2022, and cannot make it to the polls, still have an opportunity to cast their ballot.

NORMAN, OKLA. – The University of Oklahoma announced today the students named to its spring 2022 honor roll, a distinction given to those who achieve the highest academic standards.

WATONGA – U.S. Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma visited Watonga last week during a campaign tour of the Sooner State as he prepares for primary elections later this month.

WATONGA – Recent storms and showers have significantly eased western Oklahoma’s drought conditions, ending an abnormally dry spring and bringing much-needed moisture to the region. Watonga has received more than 6.5 inches of rain in the past two weeks, estimates show, and about 7.5 inches in the past month.

GEARY – A new Geary school building will be on the August ballot for voters in southern Blaine County after Monday’s meeting of the Geary School Board. The board voted to hold its election on Tuesday, Aug.