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Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa is launching a volunteer drive to fill 48 weekday driver openings so about 100 clients off the waiting list can receive meals; volunteers commit one to two hours a week for deliveries between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and can learn more at (918-947-4668).

City of Tulsa Animal Services will move into a new shelter on East 36th Street North just west of Sheridan Road that is 8,000 sqft larger and adds meet-and-greet space, calmer kennels, a secure garage, and generator power.

Deputy director Colton Jones says staff are clearing the current facility, which has held about 150 to 175 animals, and hopes the move will be complete by the end of the year; residents are asked to adopt, foster, or spay and neuter to help.

Under the Canopy School, which opened in 2025, gives Pre-K–4 students hands-on gardening experience in a year-round Nature Learning Lab in West Tulsa where they plant, harvest, and cook school-grown produce for lunches and take-home recipes.

Tulsa Community College received a $250,000 Teagle Foundation grant to expand its Cornerstone humanities program, funding faculty development, curriculum revisions, guest lecturers, and student symposia across 31 faculty.

The grant will fund a panel on Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail on Oct. 29 at 6:00 p.m. at the VanTrease Performing Arts Center (free).

On Tuesday, 300 Tulsa Public Schools students explored technical careers at Tulsa Tech's Lemley Memorial Campus through Be Pro Be Proud's Meta-supported mobile workshop that brought virtual-reality stations and hands-on simulators for construction, manufacturing, transportation, and utilities.

The Federal Trade Commission and 20 states, including Oklahoma, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee this week, accusing Dollar General (21,000 stores) of routinely charging customers more at checkout than advertised and seeking monetary relief and a permanent injunction.

OSU Medicine is launching OSU Maternal & Addiction Recovery to treat pregnant and postpartum patients with substance use by offering integrated prenatal and addiction care, rapid access, delivery and postpartum services, family recovery support, and newborn care (the first program of its kind in eastern Oklahoma).

The Cherokee Nation's Housing Authority will buy seven 840-sqft, two-bedroom, one-bath apartments on Harvard Avenue to lease to Cherokee families from its low-rent waitlist, and a ribbon-cutting is set for today; purchases will be funded by the Housing, Jobs, and Sustainable Communities Act.

The Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation will buy seven 840 sqft two bedroom one bath apartments on Harvard Avenue to lease to Cherokee citizens from its low rent waitlist; three are ADA accessible, one has visual and hearing accommodations, and a ribbon cutting is planned today.

FC Tulsa vs Loudoun United Pro Soccer Match

FC Tulsa sits in first place in the USL Western Conference, and Friday’s home match is sure to be a thriller—just as $1 Beer Section Night returns to ONEOK Field. Today in Tulsa readers can enjoy up to 50% off day of game prices with this special offer.