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22 hrs ago Diana Frost holds a sign June 9 during a protest before a Norman City Council meeting.Kyle Phillips / The Transcript Multiple Norman community groups and local businesses have issued demands about how police should be funded in the city’s FY22 budget ahead of Tuesday night’s budget hearing. The city council is slated to meet virtually at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, and will hold public comment on the budget at the meeting’s end. Registration for public comment is open on the city’s website. A partnership between Norman Collective for Racial Justice, Red Dirt Collective a...

May 11, 2021 Bird scooters sit at a “nest” in front of The Norman Transcript parking lot at the corner of Comanche Street and Peters Avenue. The California-based company deposited dozens of the scooters around Norman early in mid August 2018. Transcript File Photo While the Oklahoma Legislature failed to enact a ban on conversion therapy, the Norman City Council could take a step toward adopting one Tuesday night. Councilors will discuss an ordinance tonight at the request of the Norman Human Rights Commission to ban “the use of city fundsâ�...

By Mindy Ragan Wood | Transcript Staff Writer May 2, 2021 May 2, 2021 The selection committee for the Ward 2 seat on Wednesday will interview five candidates for the position, none of whom ran for the seat in the February election. Jay Wendorff and John Argo, two of the candidates in February’s race, were not selected for interviews. Wendorff received 42.74% of the vote against Matt McGarry’s 51.32% and John Argo’s 5.24% in the February election for the seat. McGarry resigned in March to take a teaching position with an Ivy League university, The Transcript reported...

5 hrs ago A roofer performs an appraisal on a house on Iowa Street in Norman on Monday. Officials have said, in the wake of a hail storm, verifying roofers is an easy but essential process for residents to avoid becoming a victim of illegitimate contractors. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript Along with the devastating hail storm that ravaged much of Norman last week comes out-of-town roofing companies that go door to door trying to sell residents on their company. But using an unregistered vendor leaves people susceptible to scams, fraud and possibly more dama...

By Mindy Ragan Wood | Transcript Staff Writer May 2, 2021 May 2, 2021 The selection committee for the Ward 2 seat on Wednesday will interview five candidates for the position, none of whom ran for the seat in the February election. Jay Wendorff and John Argo, two of the candidates in February’s race, were not selected for interviews. Wendorff received 42.74% of the vote against Matt McGarry’s 51.32% and John Argo’s 5.24% in the February election for the seat. McGarry resigned in March to take a teaching position with an Ivy League university, The Transcript reported...