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FORT TOWSON, Okla. — The Fort Towson Historic Site will host an eclipse watch party with a period encampment on Monday, April 8, from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. The event costs $10 per person at the gate, with no charge for military personnel, Oklahoma Historical Society members or children under six. The site will only accept cash at the gate. NASA estimates the Fort Towson Historic Site and areas of southeastern Oklahoma will see the partial eclipse between 12:28 p.m. and 3:06 p.m., with three minutes and 47 seconds of totality between 1:45 and 1:50 p.m. on April 8.

Altus Public Schools is rounding up all of our youngest Bulldogs who are ready for Pre-K and new-to-school Kindergarten students on Monday, March 25 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Altus Early Childhood and Rivers Elementary Pre-K and Kindergarten Round-Up will give parents an opportunity to complete the enrollment process and visit the school.

In an effort to quell the growing unrest towards Congress, General George Washington made a surprise visit to officers at Newburgh, New York, on March 15, 1783, during an assembly of army officers. Officers were reportedly angry with Congress for failing to honor its promise to pay them and for its failure to settle accounts for repayment of food and clothing.

Li Song, Ph.D., a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Oklahoma, has received a $1.18 million grant from the Department of Defense to design a system for simultaneous heating and cooling demands at military installations, with the goal of enhancing efficiency and reliability.

In February 2021, a round of sub-zero temperatures crippled the 60-year-old greenhouse facility at the OSU Agronomy Research Station, nearly destroying OSU’s internationally- acclaimed wheat breeding program.

Yesterday, ABDUL WARIS AKINSANYA, 26, a Nigerian citizen living in Oklahoma City, was sentenced to serve 18 months in federal prison for conspiring to defraud others, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.