We want to to Tommy Hogue for congratulate Wetumka During his recent promotion police officer Investigator. with Investigator our visit Hogue, we learned that he is the first official Investigator the Wetumka Police Department has ever had.
We want to to Tommy Hogue for congratulate Wetumka During his recent promotion police officer Investigator. with Investigator our visit Hogue, we learned that he is the first official Investigator the Wetumka Police Department has ever had.
An emergency City Council meeting was held on Saturday February 20, 2021. Those present included Donna Dyer, Council person at-large; Sherry Smith, city manager; Norma Marshall, Mayor; Richard Roush, Ward 4/ Vice Mayor. Attending via telephone conference were Logan Phillips, OK State Representative and Garret Eller, Wetumka City Attorney. Others present included Roger Absher, Wetumka City Superintendent and Landyn Oliver, Emergency Management. Council member Josh Howk was absent.
Dustin is in a State of Emergency. The pipe under the water tower broke off due to the freezing weather. We have contacted ORWA for an Emergency crew that will help us get this repaired. We don’t know how long we will be without water. This is major repair that is out of our control. Please get the word out to friends and family that may not have Facebook. We need to pull together and do what we can as a commu nity. Thank you for your understanding!
THE DUSTIN HOMECOMING WAS HELD RECENTLY AND ACESLYN PROCTOR WAS CROWNED QUEEN BY KING JAXON WHITE. The Queen’s Court pictured above are (left to right) Madyson Newsome, Ishmael Stewart, Brady Pippin, Jaxson White, King, Aceslyn Proctor, Queen. Cheparney Hicks, Amber Whitely, Jayden Boyd, Wyatt Long, Dakota Robinette, Rylie Corn, Eli Bernard. Kynlee Johnson, flower girl and Xavier Soap, crown bearer.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OFFICER TYLER SEAMON, who was named Officer of the Year of the Wetumka Police Department. Officer Seamon started working a couple of years ago as a jailer and then became an officer. He is very good at his job and is very professional. He will be attending Cleet in the near future. He was raised in the Dustin area and he and his family are making their home in Holdenville. He is shown pictured with Chief Joe Cooper and Assistant Chief Fred Wasbon.
WEDNESDAY’S ICY WEATHER might have proved to be too cold to venture out, but Misti O’Kelley and Laura Robinson braved the cold to share these beautiful ice pictures with us.
Maxine Edwyna Cissel Horner was one of the first African American women to serve in the Oklahoma State Senate District 11, serving from 1986 to 2004, along with Vicki Miles-La- Grange. Horner held the position of Democratic Caucus Chair, as well as Chair of Business and Labor and Government Operations, and Vice-Chair of Adult Literacy. As Democratic Caucus chairwoman in the late 1990s she was a sponsor of the legislation creating the group now known as the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission.
Attorney and federal judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange, first woman U.S. Attorney in Oklahoma, was born in Oklahoma City on September 30, 1953, the daughter of educators. Selected for American Legion Auxiliary’s Girl State, Miles-LaGrange was prohibited from serving as governor at the national convention because of her race. This early experience with racism shaped her career and led to her fight for equality for all Americans. In 1974 Miles-LaGrange graduated from Vassar College and in from 1977 Howard University School of Law. She worked at the U.S. Department of Justice until her return to Oklahoma City in 1983. After working for the Oklahoma City district attorney’s office, she successfully ran for the Oklahoma Senate in 1986, becoming the first African American woman elected to that body. During her term Senator Miles-La- Grange fought for leg-islation to improve the welfare of both women and children.
THE DUSTIN HOMECOMING WAS HELD RECENTLY AND ACESLYN PROCTOR WAS CROWNED QUEEN BY KING JAXON WHITE. The Queen’s Court pictured above are (left to right) Madyson Newsome, Ishmael Stewart, Brady Pippin, Jaxson White, King, Aceslyn Proctor, Queen. Cheparney Hicks, Amber Whitely, Jayden Boyd, Wyatt Long, Dakota Robinette, Rylie Corn, Eli Bernard. Kynlee Johnson, flower girl and Xavier Soap, crown bearer.
THE WETUMKA CHIEFTAINS HOMECOMING GAME will be Friday night, January 29. Homecoming ceremonies will begin at 5:30 p.m. The locals are having a good year with seven wins and five losses. Team members pictured are: Left to Right: (seated) Cate Noon, Kameron Berryhill, Alex Alford, Alex Freeman, Jace McCoy, Chole Wright and Brandon Johnson. (standing) Coach Bellinger, Coach Ben Allford, Mason Alford, Nick Lewis, Mozes Coachman, Levertis Hobia-Smith, Kholton Sparks, Jorden Osborn and Coach Howk. Not pictured - #21 Brycen Travis.
