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- Almquist nears 40 years with ODOT career

- Jacksons are enjoying expanded base of operations

- Legends of buried treasures in Custer, Washita counties

- Dr. Cale Challis feels blessed working for OU

Almquist nears 40 years with ODOT career

When Brent Almquist interviewed with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation in 1983, he didn’t imagine it would lead to a career that would span his lifetime. Originally from La Crosse, Kan., Almquist has spent the last almost 40 years working on ODOT projects throughout southwestern Oklahoma.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The two cousins returned to the tiny, hardscrabble hamlet they grew up in in southern Mexico about two weeks ago to say goodbye in what has become a right of passage for generations of migrants from their remote, impoverished mountainous region in Oaxaca state.

CONKLIN, N.Y. (AP) — A missing golden retriever named Lilah, discovered deep inside a culvert pipe in upstate New York, could not be lured out by her owner with peanut butter dog treats or cheese.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Even the dragonflies seem to have lost their senses

I was "up north," walking through the woods with an escort of dragonflies on either side, as if I were a visiting dignitary in need of protection. I love dragonflies. I love their variety and their shiny wings and the way they turn on a dime in midair. I love how they clear the path of mosquitos as I walk through the woods along the lakeshore. I love how they behave exactly as a good escort should.

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