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Monday, October 5, 2026 • Really nice weather this week. 79-80. ☀️
Poll results:
We received 245 votes on the Saturday poll, “Is there an appropriate age limit for Halloween trick-or-treating?”
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 13 and under: No brainer (142)
🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Under 18: Anybody not officially an adult (56)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 18-24: Close enough (9)
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 25+: We're all kids at heart! ❤️ (38)
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New charter school announced for downtown OKC amid lower enrollment at Oklahoma City Public Schools
An artist rendering of the John Rex Polytechnic High School in downtown Oklahoma City. (Johnrexschool.org)
By Beth Wallis, StateImpact Oklahoma
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A public, neighborhood high school is coming to downtown Oklahoma City for the first time in almost 50 years.
The John Rex Polytechnic High School will be a public charter school scheduled to open in the fall of 2027. It will serve ninth grade students its first year and add a grade each year after. It will be located about a block west of the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
John Rex Charter School already operates an elementary, middle and junior high school.
Students will choose from six concentration areas, including engineering, entrepreneurship and biomedical studies.
The school is financially supported by the nonprofit Inasmuch Foundation, according to its website.
The lottery for the inaugural class opens online Nov. 11.
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Here’s what’s happening in Oklahoma today:
Can Oklahomans with felony convictions vote? New law offers clarity on who is eligible — and when. (The Oklahoma Eagle)
Tribal roundup: Peoria, Muscogee nations mourn former chiefs; Kiowa special election challenged (NonDoc)
Osage Congress to vote on data centers, immersion school funding Monday (KOSU)
Data center myths examined in Oklahoma interim study (News 9)
Two people in custody after northwest Oklahoma City shooting leaves person hospitalized (KOCO)
Inmate dies after medical emergency at Oklahoma County jail (Fox 25)
2 killed in Wagoner County crash (Broken Arrow Sentinel)
North Tulsa community celebrates reopening of Rudisill Regional Library (The Oklahoma Eagle)
New 450-lot neighborhood planned on former Cobblestone Golf Course site in Muskogee (KJRH)
Ever wonder what happens to roadkill? We asked the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (Oklahoma Voice)
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