Broken Arrow Elementary teachers and students marked the end of an era on Wednesday. Though kids were celebrating the end of the school year, it was also the end of the school's 55-year history. The school marked its last day with an assembly and plenty of time to sign their friends' shirts and applaud performances from their classmates. For second grade teachers Kathy Meyer and Melissa Howard, the assembly ...
There will soon be a lot more of the lifesaving overdose drug naloxone available in Douglas County. After being asked to come back with a more fleshed-out plan back in April, social safety net agency DCCCA returned to the Douglas County Commission Wednesday with a revised request for funding to support the nonprofit’s plans to improve community access to the drug, often referred to by its brand name, Narcan. ...
The Treatment and Recovery Center of Douglas County has now been operating for more than a month, but it seems there are still some loose ends left to tie up from back before county leaders decided who’d be running the facility. At Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting, county leaders will consider a request to reimburse LMH Health $1,111,505.80 and Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center ...
A Douglas County coalition focused on reducing substance abuse and promoting mental wellness among youths has announced recipients of an award recognizing individuals and agencies who help advance those goals through active engagement and dedication to serving the community. Engage Douglas County announced three recipients for its 2023 “Engaged in Action” award Monday — youth recipient Nora Prather, a ...
In many ways, the coronavirus pandemic’s outsized impact on folks’ daily lives began to wane months ago. So much so, in fact, that data reporting has dropped in frequency — or even ceased entirely — in the case of entities like Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. The county as of Friday had recorded 182 COVID-19 deaths in the more than three years since the start of the pandemic in March of 2020, ...
With an impending move to a much larger office space, a Douglas County nonprofit that advocates for kids under the protection of the court system is preparing for what it hopes will be a period of substantial growth. That nonprofit is Douglas County Court Appointed Special Advocates, commonly referred to as CASA. The agency is at the tail end of a $1 million capital campaign to help it purchase and renovate a ...