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HUGHES COUNTY COMMISSIONERS REGULAR MEETING-HOLDENVILLE, OK. August 11, 2025The Hughes County Board of County Commissioners met for a Regular Meeting in the Hughes County Commissioners Boardroom in the Hughes County Courthouse at 200 North Broadway, Holdenville Oklahoma.

Boys will always have professional athletes and musicians to look up to, but as the New York Times’s Claire Cain Miller correctly notes, it is the adults that children “personally know” and see on a daily basis who have the most positive effect on children.

August raced in quickly and just as quickly raced by — at least as far as kids are concerned — it’s already gone. You see, school started. I remember well the first day of school over at Stonewall. I remember the smells from the hot buildings and from all the fresh paint.

My name is Thomasene Yahola Osborn. I am seeking my third term as your Muscogee (Creek) National Council Representative, Seat B, Tukvpvtce District.My husband, Jeff and I have been married for 41 years. We have three children, and seven grandchildren. Our youngest, Aleck, being two months old.

I had a daughter graduate this year (as Salutatorian I might add!) and during the Senior assembly I noticed a couple of former graduating classes providing a scholarship. I graduated with the class of 1975, and we held our 50th Class Reunion in Wewoka in June.

What began as a routine traffic stop in Wetumka ended with two people being taken to jail on drug charges late in the evening of Thursday, May 29.According to a report from the Wetumka Police Department, Chief Scott Gamble was parked on the 400 block of South Main Street around 11 p.m.

SEPTEMBER 2025 VOL. 4 BY JIM (JIMMY) HERRINGTONThere is probably, only a hand full of people alive in Hughes County who knew my parents, Bob and Velma Herrington.

The Wetumka Board of Education held their regular meet - ing, August 12, 2025 in the Administrative Office Board Room.

You know what he did? He told them the story. Not just any story. He told them the story of God and God's plan for people. Then starting with what Moses and all the prophets had said about him, Jesus began to ex - plain everything that had been written about himself in the Scriptures.Fascinationg.