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The Osage News Editorial Board finalized the newspaper’s rules for advertising for the 2014 Osage Nation Primary Election, General Election and Minerals Council Election.

The Osage Nation Executive and Legislative branches of government are seeking two appointees to serve on the Editorial Board after both branches did not reappoint and confirm two board members earlier this year when those terms expired. The board’s third position also expired this year.

In the meantime, the Third ON Congress voted to appoint former Congressional Speaker Jerri Jean Branstetter to a six-month interim Editorial Board term. Congresswoman Shannon Edwards made the motion on Oct. 1 – the last day of the Tzi-Zho Session.

On behalf of the Osage Nation Editorial Board, I am pleased to announce the board’s appointment of Tara McLain Manthey as a member. Manthey, an Osage tribal member, will serve a one-year term as mandated by amendments to the Osage Independent Press Act. Teresa Trumbly Lamsam completed her term as a board member this spring.

Osage Nation Editorial Board Meeting
June 27, 9 a.m.
Osage News
619 Kihekah
Pawhuska, OK 74056

If you put stock in online polls, which I don’t, but if you do then the three online Osage News Election Polls published throughout the month of May will show you four candidates who have continuously gotten in the top six.

They are Jim Ryan, Matthew Shunkamolah, Nicki Revard Lorenzo and John F. Maker.

Beginning in October, the Osage News will be reduced to one newspaper per household.

“It is our goal to drive readers to our Osage News Web site, making it their primary source for information,” said Osage News Editor Shannon Shaw. “The news industry is changing to a more online, multi-media based information tool and we are changing with it.”

ESPN2 will be bringing its “Friday Night Fights” show to the Osage Million Dollar Elm Casino in Tulsa on Feb. 25. This fight match will be televised live from the Osage Event Center starting at 7 p.m.

The main event will feature 10 fight rounds between Juan Carlos Burgos and Cristobal Cruz. A co-feature fight is also scheduled with Maxim Vlasov vs. Issac Chilembe. Tickets went on sale this week and are $35 each.

Contact the Osage Event Center box office at (918) 699-7667 for tickets, VIP seating or more information.

The Red Eagle administration will not be paying contractors for work done without a signed and executed contract, a practice that was done by the Gray administration and something that the new administration said was not good business practice.

Pawhuskans have been in a frenzy as Hollywood mega-stars Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem and Barry Pepper have been walking the streets of downtown Pawhuska filming for an upcoming and untitled project by director Terrence Malick.

Malick, whose credits include The Thin Red Line, The New World, is famously secretive about his upcoming projects and is said to be the writer as well as the director for the project. Film crews and representatives were tight-lipped as to the film’s plot.

FAIRFAX, Okla. – Paradox Consulting, which issued the health surveys to Osage citizens applying for the $500 health benefit card earlier this year, says changes in everyday behavior can help those in fair or poor health extend their life span by avoiding future medical complications.

Osage Nation Head Start of Fairfax and Pawhuska joined in the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association fundraising events to support the “Win-Win” campaign against cancer. The fundraising efforts took place all over the state during the week of Sept. 13.

The children range in age from three to five-years-old but the staff at the nation’s head start programs feel it is never too early to teach children to be aware of the importance of helping others, according to a prepared release.

 TULSA, Okla. – The Osage Nation’s first-ever Watershed Forum brought representatives from tribes around the state to discuss the importance of natural resource preservation Aug. 24.

Watersheds are important to many Native American tribes, including the Osage, because they are viewed as playing a role in spirituality and identity.