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Altus Municipal Authority receives $2,000,000 grant for system improvements

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The Altus Municipal Authority (Authority) received approval for $2,000,000 in funding Thursday from the Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB) to improve the Authority’s wastewater infrastructure. Construction of upgrades and improvements to the wastewater system will be financed by the Oklahoma American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) grant program along with $3,736,312 in funding from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF).
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Tis the Season!

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Why does Christmas have to be so commercialized? Some stores had Christmas decorations up before Halloween! We seem to cruise right past Thanksgiving and into black Friday. Christmas isn’t setaside as a specific day in the Bible, but His birth is a big deal in both the Old and New Testaments.

Friends of the WOSC Performing Arts present Christmas Concert

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Cookies and Carols, A Concert of Christmas joy will be performed by the Western Oklahoma State College Community Chorus on Friday, Dec. 15, 2023, at 7 p.m. in the WOSC Pioneer Heritage Center. The concert will feature over 60 community singers that will perform a variety of traditional Christmas choral music that will top off the holiday season.

EPA announces more than $8 million to Tribes in Oklahoma for recycling infrastructure projects

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On America Recycles Day, EPA announces grants under President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, funded in part by the largest recycling investment in 30 years In conjunction with America Recycles Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Cherokee Nation, Modoc Nation, Muscogee Creek Nation, the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, and the Wyandotte Nation will receive a total of $6,092,098 in Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling grants for Tribes and Intertribal Consortia to expand recyling infrastructure. The United Keetoowah Band will receive $2,000,000 in Recycling Education and Outreach grants to provide additional opportunities for recyling. As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, a key pillar of Bidenomics, these grants will expand education for waste management systems across the region.