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Click here to see award book. • 3/6: The SPJ Lifetime Award winner from last year, Ed Montgomery, died Tuesday (March 3rd) at 91. Click Here to read the article from The Norman Transcript. • 2/3: Get linked: OKSPJ.com is once again offering linkage to your award winning work if you e-mail links of your entries to althea.peterson@gmail.com. This will allow future OKSPJ.com visitors to view your work, as well as allow those interested in entering future contests to see what has won in the past. As an added bonus, those who e-mail links to their first-place work will get a response back with the SPJ judges comments. • 2/2/09: Contest update. • 12/7: Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists has new officers! Check out the entire list here. • 11/8: Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists extends its sympathies to the family and friends of longtime board member Carter Bradley. Please read more here. • 11/8: Congratulations to Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists treasurer Scott Cooper on being elected SPJ Region 8 director. More information can be read here. • 3/19: STATEMENT: The Oklahoma Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists joins with Freedom of Information Oklahoma Inc. and the Oklahoma Press Association in denouncing the recent decision by the Oklahoma Supreme Court to restrict information on court documents and access to the Oklahoma Supreme Court Network website. Oklahoma SPJ will be working with FOI Oklahoma and OPA to convince the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision before the new rule goes into effect on June 10, 2008. Signed, Oklahoma SPJ Board