The Wetumka Legends 8U Baseball team are pictured above with their winning trophy. They finished 1st in south district and are Tri County Runner Up and Regional Qualifiers. The team has an amazing 15-2 record. Congratulations to: Front Row: Joseph Berryhill, Kaegan Starr, Jett Stokes, Colton Moore, Jacob Smith, Kasen Goodwin. Middle Row: Braxton Clanton, Benson Allford, Tanner Smith, Levi Lindsey, Takoda Factor, Wadie Yargee, Jack Henry. Coaches: Chris Powell, Matt Smith, Ally Bell, Tiffany Bell, Tracey Bell, Jeremy Clanton.

Latrell Parker

The Wetumka Chamber of Commerce President, Donna Dyer, presented three local businesses with their First Dollar of Profit on Wednesday, June 22nd. She also invited the business owners to join the Chamber of Commerce and attend the monthly luncheon and meeting held on the second Tuesday of every month at the Methodist Church in Wetumka.

(left to right) Front row - Caleb Allgeier, Johnny Ray Brown, Kaxton Farned, Jace Janes, Blue Wilbanks—Back row - Kyron Logan, Emma Ball, Grayson Linker.

HOLDENVILLE — Autumn Jackson had waited more than two years to tell her story in court and to confront the couple that abused her from age 14 to 21. For 30 minutes this afternoon, she read a detailed victim impact statement to Hughes County District Judge Timothy Olsen regarding the sexual, physical and mental abuse perpetrated by James and Rebecca Jackson, a pair of U.S. Army veterans who became her legal guardians in Illinois, moved to Oklahoma and won election to the Wetumka City Council.

The forced removal of the Five Tribes from their homelands in the southeastern United States to Indian Territory in the 1830s also included the African American slaves owned by many tribal members. The transition of these slaves to American citizenship is unique in the history of race relations in the United States. It was a journey filled with contentious negotiation among factions of the Indian nations, the federal government, capitalist developers, black and white agricultural colonizers, and the freedmen themselves. Efforts to secure the rights of the freedmen represented one aspect of the struggle that ultimately opened Indian lands to non-Indian settlement.