The Good

The Monday before fall classes even started, hundreds of Oklahoma Baptist University students traded dorm move-in for yard work, cleaning, and care packages in the Shawnee community. About 450 OBU students and employees, including a large wave of incoming freshmen and transfers, took part in the university's annual Serve Shawnee event on August 24. Teams fanned out to more than 18 locations across Shawnee and the surrounding Pottawatomie County area, lending a hand at places

If you've driven by the Tecumseh High School ag building lately, you may have noticed a landscaping upgrade. And it's all thanks to the hard work of Tecumseh FFA students. Over the course of several weeks in May, students from across the agriculture program rolled up their sleeves and gave the entrance a complete makeover. Students dug up old grass, leveled the ground, built new beds and benches from scratch, and hand-picked the foliage that now welcomes visitors to the build

Sometimes good news shows up in the most unexpected way — like the back of a semi truck. That's exactly what happened this week in Tecumseh, Oklahoma, when 147 crates of squash landed at the Tecumseh Round Up Club, and the nonprofit came together to make sure none of it went to waste. The squash arrived by way of truck driver Billy Bazmore, who was hauling the load from Mexico. Walmart had ordered a different variety of squash, and when this shipment didn't match, the order w

It's the kind of small moment that could have easily gone unnoticed. But at Grove School in Shawnee, Oklahoma, one officer's simple act of kindness is getting the recognition it deserves. When a student's glasses broke during the school day, the situation could have meant a call home, a missed afternoon of clear vision, or a scramble to find a fix. Instead, Officer Harjo stepped in. On his own lunch break, he took the student's broken glasses to a local eye doctor, waited to