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LAWTON, OK — An audience saw the sights that hearken the song of freedom we know so well in Lawton Saturday’s Armed Forces Day parade through the city.

One of the nation’s largest annual military parades, this one was something special.

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Anyone who has driven around Lake Lawtonka and then toward Meers, sees clearly why the Meers Volunteer Fire Department’s continued growth is vital to all those residents and that’s just why the group puts so much effort into their 35th Annual Tour de Meers.

LAWTON, OK — Joining with Armed Forces Day, the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache (KCA) Indian Veterans Organization is hosting its 5th Annual Veterans Powwow.The event at the Great Plains Coliseum Expo Center, 920 S. Sheridan, celebrates not only the American veterans, “our warriors,” who protect the…

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City officials are considering asking voters for an extension for the Capital Improvements Program to fund projects in Lawton.

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President Joe Biden is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically Black, male-only institution in Atlanta. The speech on Sunday offers Biden an election-year appearance before a Black audience, a key voting bloc for Democrats. It also could directly expose Biden to the anger that some Morehouse and other college students around the country have been expressing over his support for Israel in its war against Hamas militants in Gaza. Morehouse’s announcement of Biden as the commencement speaker sparked a backlash among the school’s faculty and supporters who oppose Biden’s handling of the war. After the ceremony, Biden was flying to Detroit to speak at an NAACP dinner.