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GRAHAM-DUSTIN Graham-Dustin will open their 20-21 football season Friday night when they host Life Christian. Game time - 7:00. WETUMKA Wetumka will travel Depew for their season opener next Friday night, September 3. Game time 7:00.

TOMMY PEAK, HUGHES COUNTY COMMISSIONER, PASSED AWAY FROM COVID. He had asked HALO if we could take some of his outside dogs to care for while he was in the hospital and adopt them if he passed. The ladies at the shelter took in two. One has already found a new home. Please pray for Mr.

In comparison to July of 2020, Oklahoma’s state revenue dropped in July 2021 due mostly to delayed income tax filings last year.

Timber & Addie Powell Covered Wewoka and Chesley, Destiny & J.C. Slater and Kate Rogers covered Holdenville with flyers promoting a Benefit for the Rory Stricklin Family and the Wewoka Vet Hospital Staff.

Chase Chitwood , Oakley Leftwich Nicholaus Chastain Jolene Henry, Rylan Young, Layla Oliver Levi Lindsey, Josiah Bennett, Gabriel Fogle Raquel Garcia, Aster Caldwell, Mayzee Grey Jacob Smith, Kagen Wright, Jett Stokes Amber Smith , Jackson Bartschi, Jaxlee Williams

The Hughes County Commissioners met for their regular weekly meeting Monday Aug. 16, 2021.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruled last Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma doesn’t apply to past convictions.

THE WETUMKA CLASS OF 1989 HAS PLACED A GRANITE BENCH AT THE HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM in honor of Robert Jaggars who passed away on July 28th, 2020. Robert was very active in the community and loved sports. He was an avid OU and Dallas Cowboys fan and he loved being a Wetumka Chieftain.

FELONY Brandon Drea Green OSW—burglary in the first degree MISDEMEANORS Samuel D.

Composers of spirituals, “Uncle Wallace” and “Aunt Minerva” Willis were slaves in the old Choctaw Nation area of Oklahoma during the mid-nineteenth century. A Choctaw named Britt Willis owned them.