Wolverine Softball Team split games in opening week

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The first week of softball season was indicative of the circumstances of 2020. The Wolverines were supposed to open the season at McAlester on Monday but one of the Buffalo players came down with the Covid-19 virus and the game was cancelled.
Holdenville Head Softball Coach talked things over with Bailee Black before Bailee took her turn at bat against the Valliant Bulldogs.

Hughes County Court Records

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FELONIES Mary Lou Fredricks—assault, battery, or assault & battery with a dangerous weapon Michael Jonathon Nichols—intimidation of witness Candice Margret Ritz—

SSB officials break ground for new bank

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Pictured are: Mark Schell, SSB President; Duke Ligon, SSB Chairman of the Board; Amber Gasaway, Banking Officer; Kim Carr, Senior Vice-President; Richard Carr, President; Tip Burch, CEO and Aubey Keesee, Vice-President.
SSB officials break ground for new bank

Service held for Glenda Jean McElhane

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Glenda Jean (Montgomery) McElhaney, at the age of 77, passed away on the afternoon of August 11, in the year 2020. Having been in poor health she passed from her loved ones while being hospitalized at St Francis in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Glenda Jean McElhane

School Board focuses on COVID challenges

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“It is an unusual start back to school,” Holdenville Public Schools Superintendent understated at one point during the August 10 Holdenville Public School Board of Education meeting. He noted the staff is understandably concerned about their students getting sick, as well as their own health, as the COVID 19 wildcard makes any attempt to plan beyond the next day a challenge.
NEW BUS INSPECTION – Holdenville Public Schools Board members Micah Mitchon and Kevin Arthur are shown inspecting the new buses that were recently purchased thanks to a voter-approved $360,000 bond. The members were impressed with the wider doors and higher ceilings inside, although the leg room wasn’t as much as they remembered from their school days.

The Publisher’s Pen

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PUBLISHER’S PEN Bruce Roberts stopping by the office and reminding others that while he and Bill Robinson were in the National Guard, the enemy never got close to Holdenville.

Hughes County in Moderate Risk Phase

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August 14, 2020 The Oklahoma State Department of Health has released the following situation update about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Oklahoma as of August 14, 2020: • This week, there are four additional counties in the “orange” risk zone. OSDH continues to monitor closely the statewide hospitalization trends for COVID-19.
Hughes County in Moderate Risk Phase