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- Medicare enrollment period open

- Foss prepares for spooky weekend

- Junior Service League seeks to provide help to community

- Senior lineman eyes working in oil fields after school

In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

Medicare’s annual open enrollment period is now underway and runs through Dec. 7, 2025, giving Oklahomans on Medicare the opportunity to review, compare, and change their health or prescription drug plans for the 2026 coverage year. This year’s enrollment period comes with new tools, enhanced consumer protection, and a strong reminder to stay alert for scams targeting seniors across the state.

Foss State Park’s Halloween in the Park event will occur this weekend on Friday and Saturday. Festivities include a Haunted Egg Hunt, trick or treating, and a Haunted Trail.

From left, Brittany Miller, Stacie Nickel, J.J. Thompson, Chelle Gutermuth, and Erin Giles share breakfast and a laugh during a meeting of Junior Service League’s officers to prepare for the upcoming Spaghetti Day fundraiser. CDN | Shiann Dawson

Once a month, Junior Service League meets to discuss current community happenings, services that could potentially be in need of assistance, and – especially around this time of year – its primary annual fundraiser, Spaghetti Day.

(AP) — Lawyers for a man whose conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz was recently overturned asked a judge on Tuesday to set a date for his release from prison if prosecutors don’t decide soon to hold a new trial.

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