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Vote No On SQ 820The upcoming special election provides Oklahoma voters with a rare opportunity.

Kids, even the adult versions, display the effects of the greatest influences in life…their parents. It can show up in being a mirror image of a parent, becoming similar in actions and reactions. Or it can have the opposite effect.

Mind the GapI have been fortunate to visit England twice. One was a family vacation and the other an anniversary celebration.They were both memorable because we saw things we had read about in books while also seeing things we had never seen.

Oklahoma Black Homesteader Project.”Carter G. Woodson was a scholar whose dedication to celebrating the historic contributions of Black people led to the establishment of Black History Month, marked every February since 1976.

Be Quiet! How many times did your parents yell something like “Be Quiet!” There were usually several exclamation points following the words and the decibel level of your parent was anything but quiet. Likely it was because you, the child, were being noisy, loud, demanding or irritating.

Recently I was reading in the Old Testament about a patriarch named Jacob whose name, not surprisingly, meant “deceiver”; Jacob was an “if-then” kind of guy.

The holiday fun and games were over, and we were ready to fly home. But a middle of the night message informed us our flight was cancelled and we had to rebook. And we suddenly became birds without wings.

The Anti–Horse Thief Association (AHTA) was first organized in 1854 by David McKee, a farmer and stock raiser, in Clark County, Missouri.

Dear Editor, I am writing to thank Holdenville-area residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season.

WashRobinsonwasborninOldMexico,asheremembers,abouttheyear 1840. When quite a boy, the Navaho Indians stole him. When he was nearly grown, he was sold by them to the Pueblos. After having been with them for some time, he left, and went to the Wichita Mountains.