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Christmas decorations adorn a grave at Sunset Cemetery in Geary. Loved ones often decorate graves during the holidays as a way to personalize their memorial and remember them. Thomas Martinez Watonga Republican

Individuals who have attended high school but left without a high school diploma because of a previous law that required all Oklahoma high school students to pass four of five end of instruction tests now have a way to get that degree.

Today is Wednesday, Dec. 16, the 351st day of 2020.

CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK... “We give up, Nana.

The vision Kason Oakes had for an 80-foot cross in Watonga took a year to come to fruition, but it’s about to be fully realized. Oakes, the lead pastor at the Watonga Church of the Nazarene, had seen a You Tube video on a similar project in Hennessey.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revised its guidelines for people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus. Now, instead of the standard 14-day quarantine it has been recommending, the CDC says that potential exposure warrants a quarantine of 10 or seven days, depending on one's test results and symptoms.

Oklahoma gas prices have risen 2.9 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $1.82/g today, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 2,294 stations. Gas prices in Oklahoma are 5.9 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 40.3 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.