I write about cool stuff for @tulsaworld. Okie but not from Muskogee. @ocolly alum.
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Brooks, sporting his signature black cowboy hat and pearl snap shirt, played country classics along with a few cover songs during the two-hour performance that marked his first return to the BOK Center since 2015.
Song list and fan stories:
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Tulsa Public Schools received an accreditation demotion partly based on a state accreditation rule established during former State Superintendent Ryan Walters' tenure that factors test scores into accreditation assessments.
Here's how it works:
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More on what the future looks like for the staff, students and families affected by the closures TPS announced Monday night, including staff cuts, enrollment deadlines and where students will be moved.
From @LenzyKB and I:
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It's almost here!
Details on the IKEA opening in Tulsa Hills:
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It’s unlikely 8-month-old Lakoda Pratt-Wood will remember sitting in his stroller at the Tulsa Native American Day parade, but it won’t be the last time he attends an event celebrating his heritage.
His parents will make sure of it.
More on the event:
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Baylor Rodden, 20, still remembers his first hot air balloon flight at just 4 years old: It was “kind of boring,” he remembers thinking.
“Then, it was just like, ‘Oh, we just do this,’” Rodden said. “But now it's like, ‘Oh, I really want to do this.’”
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Amy Woody doesn’t even have to speak with the women she works with to understand them. That’s how being a widow works, she said — widows just understand each other. No conversations required.
Here's how she and her team are helping others like her:
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ICYMI: The new Rudisill Regional Library opened over the weekend.
Comments from opening event attendees and info on all the new and improved library features:
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This seven-phase project is reshaping a former public housing site, with the latest phase, Landing @ 36N, opening this week.
They've got available units. Details, pricing and photos:
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Tulsa’s new (and 42nd) police chief was sworn in Monday. Jonathan Brooks, formerly the deputy chief, is getting a promotion:
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He was driving 106 mph at the time. Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers hit fleeing vehicles at speeds far faster than they practice, killing seven people and injuring 114 in an eight-year span.
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The Gilcrease Museum is ready to reopen five years after it closed for major renovations.
Details:
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The Susan G. Komen Tulsa Race for the Cure on Saturday will bring together people with different experiences but a common connection: breast cancer.
Read the stories of a few participants:
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Tulsa city councilors discussed a proposal to establish an Office of Independent Review and Oversight of Public Safety, which would review completed investigations, as well as an 11-member Civilian Oversight Board
Discussions about it were a little tense:
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Monarch butterflies are making their fall journey through Tulsa. Local experts shared where to spot migrating monarchs and how planting a few pollinator-friendly plants can support their travels.
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The Tulsa Garden Center Rose Garden had one extra rose in it Friday morning — Ginger Rose.
Rose on Friday morning was among the 38 members of TTCU Federal Credit Union who volunteered to brave the sweltering heat to help beautify Woodward Park.
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Don Lepp was 50 when he learned he was adopted. His parents, both of whom were deceased at that point, never told him the truth about who he was and where he came from.
And it gets a lot crazier than that. Buckle up and read:
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Feels like we've had quite a few restaurant openings and just about as many closings since I moved here.
Here's a recap on the local favorites that shuttered and introductions for the Tulsa food scene newcomers:
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It’s rare that Melanie Dickey, 71, makes it through the yearly anniversary 9/11 without crying.
She and her Dalmatian Jack, 5, watched hundreds of firefighters file into the downtown First Place Tower.
More on what today means to her (and to others):
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Scott Keele, a Broken Arrow police chaplain, went to Ground Zero twice after 9/11 to help first responders & recovery workers open up about the traumatic things they saw. Artifacts & excerpts from his journal during that time are at a BA museum. More:
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