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Two attempted suicides at county jailSunday, December 19 th , two Hughes County jail inmates attempted to hang themselves. Deputies responded quickly and both were taken to Holdenville General Hospital.

You can’t get any more accurate than this! This is straight-forward country thinking.Which side of the Fence?

Opera singer Leona Mitchell was born October 13, 1949, in Enid, Oklahoma, as the tenth child of fifteen children of Rev. Hulon and Dr. Pearl Olive Leatherman Mitchell.

On December 28, 1921, Joseph and Rebecca Marks welcomed a little girl into their family. Martha, born one of eighteen children, grew up in Clearview and attended Clearview schools.

Two months ago, Bobbie Melvin made his usual once every two-month track from Temple Hills, Maryland to visit his brother in Texas. While traveling through Oklahoma, he decided to visit the Black towns he had read about.

Remember those who are ill and need of our prayers during this New Year: Billy Walker is currently with his daughter Tasha and doing much better. Sharon Patton and L.C. Carson are home from the hospital and improving.

The Oklahoma Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership committee is proud to recognize an outstanding farm and ranch family from Calvin, Oklahoma for the 2021 OKFB WLC Farm & Ranch Family recognition program.This family works each and every day to grow and raise the food, fiber and fuel our world depends on.

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Second Amendment Association (OK2A) recently awarded Sen. Warren Hamilton, R-McCurtain, with the Freshman Senator of the Year Award.

STUART ELEMENTARY STUDENT’S ESSAY HEADED TO STATE CONTEST—Genna Haney, a 6th grader at Stuart Elementary, was recently named the Area 5 winner of the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts Essay Contest. She had placed 1st in the Hughes County Conservation District this fall.

The Seminole State College Student Government Association has selected its officers for the 2021-2022 academic year. Pictured from left to right are Secretary Katelyn Nguyen, of Dustin; President Georgia Ledford, of Seminole; and Vice President Jenna Harrison, of Shawnee.