By Darla Shelden City Sentinel Reporter OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Oklahoma City’s Other Options Friends Food Pantry is preparing for their 20th Annual Cookie’s Thanksgiving Day Delivery of holiday meals to individuals and families affected by HIV/AIDS. Cookie Arbuckle founded Other Options and Friends Food Pantry in 1988. Her daughter, Mary Arbuckle, now serves as […]
By Darla Shelden City Sentinel Reporter OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – The Oklahoma City Astronomy Club is partnering with Scissortail Park to host a public viewing of a rare transit of the planet Mercury across the face of the Sun on Monday morning, November 11. A viewing area will be set up at the Survivor […]
By Darla Shelden City Sentinel Reporter OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – The Oklahoma Bar Association will honor eight Oklahoma City metro attorneys and organizations with awards during its 115th Annual Meeting, themed “Shoot for the Moon.” The conference will take place downtown, Thursday through Saturday, November 6-8 at the Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens. Twenty-one […]
The City Sentinel, Staff Report Oklahoma City, OK – This season the Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble celebrates the contribution of women to the vast body of classical music, featuring a work by a woman composer in each program. On November 12 at 7:30 p.m. the ensemble will present its second chamber music concert of the 2019-20 […]
Patrick B. McGuigan OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Some friends have wondered about my recent interest in the decision of the government of India to first erode and then revoke the semi-autonomous status of Kashmir within the geographic area identified on maps as India. I have provided a forum to Nyla Ali Khan, a South […]
By Darla Shelden City Sentinel Reporter Friday, Nov. 1, 2019 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted to recommend the commutation of sentences for 527 Oklahomans, today. The recommended commutation docket is expected to be signed by Gov. Kevin Stitt, allowing the release of hundreds of Oklahomans on Monday. According […]
By Darla Shelden City Sentinel Reporter OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – The African Children’s Choir will perform two concerts in Oklahoma City on Sunday, December 1. The first show will take place at the Avery Chapel AME Church, 1425 N. Kelham Avenue, at 10:45 a.m. The second performance will take place at 7 p.m., at the […]
Patrick B. McGuigan, Publisher, The City Sentinel The Comanche Nation of Oklahoma continues to battle dubious acquisitions of lands the federal government placed in trust for the powerful Chickasaw Nation in secretive decisions. In a fresh filing in the federal Western District Court, lawyers for the Comanche have sought “declaratory and injunctive relief.” The Comanche […]
Stacy Martin, Independent Journalist The Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women’s monthly regular meeting, held last week in the Will Rogers Memorial Office Building in Oklahoma City, turned into an unruly state public event. According to the public agenda, a wrap-up report about the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame was listed. Following the […]
By Darla Shelden City Sentinel Reporter OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act, H.R. 724, by a voice vote. The measure would establish a federal anti-cruelty statute to protect animals. The legislation has been heavily lobbied and supported by members of the Animal […]
