Students at Makerspace Summer Camp have got the whole world in their hands — thanks to some string and newspapers, glue, a balloon and paint. Students created their own globes as...

There were kids with rockets all over the place, but John Freese was still pretty secure about his position in the group. “I’m the rocket master,” he said by way of introduction,...

When students return to the Life Ready Center in August, they will notice an immediate change to at least one of the hallways — new carpeting. Lawton Public Schools crews have sp...

A new food services group will be providing meals to Lawton Public Schools students and staff when the new school year begins in August. Chartwells, a North Carolina-based food s...

Eighteen Lawton Public Schools sites have won 2026 Promising Practice designation from Character.org . The organization’s designation is intended to celebrate schools that bring ...

After two days of playing Indigenous games, some students at Lawton Public Schools’ Makerspace Camp had worked up an appetite. Dan Ninham, a member of the Oneida tribe in Minneso...

Students may think they have stepped back in time when they enter the halls of Lawton High School when school resumes in August. The time warp is thanks to a project instigated b...

Students in the culinary class at Makerspace Summer Camp learned that you don’t always need a conventional oven to cook your food. In fact, baking in a solar oven can be pretty fu...

Junior ROTC cadets from MacArthur High School, along with 129 cadets from 14 other schools, got a close-up view of Army life when they attended the JROTC Cadet Leadership Challeng...

The Lawton Public Schools Summer Feeding program is in full swing. Free summer lunches have been a part of the district’s programs for a long time, but in recent years district n...

Paintings by three students at the Life Ready Center will join the works of other local artists on display at a downtown Lawton business. Artists Mia Feliciano and Deann Pearson,...

Lawton Public Schools is ready to launch its popular summer feeding program, with most sites opening June 1. Free summer lunches have been a part of the district’s programs for a...

Haylee Dingman will finally be able to tell her children that she is a high school graduate. Dingman is one of about 120 local persons taking advantage of a new state law allowin...

Whenever new Lawton Public Schools Superintendent Neal Weaver sits down to eat a meal at home, he will be eating off a piece of LPS history. Students in John Cullison’s construct...

Lawton Public Schools Superintendent Kevin Hime has been named a 2026 OASA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Hime, who has been LPS superintendent since 2019, is one of three...

Students at MacArthur Middle School didn’t let a little cold and wind keep them from testing their rockets. They were a little winded after chasing down those rockets when they l...

First meetings can sometimes be uncomfortable, but finding out that you have something in common can ease the awkwardness. Just ask participants in the Edison Elementary-Lawton Hi...

For the fifth consecutive year, MacArthur High School’s Junior ROTC Highlander Battalion is ending the school year as the Army Junior ROTC state champion in the Oklahoma Drill and...

The Eisenhower Middle School Viking Band received two Superior Sweepstakes trophies for the Beginning and Combined Bands at the Heartland Music Festival on May 2 in Guthrie. The ...

All the events you need to celebrate Oklahoma’s heritage — horses and sheep and goats and sack races and horseshoe games — were available at Learning Tree Academy’s Oklahoma Day i...