Holdenville won both games at Hugo. The Wolverines made short work of the Buffaloes and won both games by run rule. Brayden Smith had an inside the park home run. Coach Morgan praised the hitting of Belle Mc-Farland, Emmy Mariott, Cylee Null, Stevi Huff, Kaden Morris,and Brooklyn Brown.

Holdenville played Atoka on the road. Brayden Smith swung a big stick for the Wolverines and finished the game 4 for 4. Kaden Morris hit a ground rule double and a home run. Coach Morgan was pleased with her pitchers, Cheyenne Fixico and Faith Norman. According to Coach Morgan both pitchers dominated the Atoka batters.

Coach Sarah Morgan’s Wolverine softball team continues to improve. Holdenville played seven games this past week and won six. The Wolverines lost to highly ranked Tishomingo early in the week but came back on the rebound to take two games from Atoka ( 6-0 and 4-2), Two games from Hugo ( 12-0 and 10-0.), one game from Antlers (7-2) and a forfeit from Idabel.

It’s been a while since Holdenville won a game on the field. (Wynnewood couldn’t field a team last week so as far as most folks are concerned that contest will count as a forfeit.) it’s been almost two years since the Wolverines actually beat another team on the field. Holdenville lost 15 games in a row before walloping the North Rock Creek Panthers 40-0.

Jessie Raymond Long passed away Thursday, September 17th, 2020 at Shady Care Center in Pryor, Oklahoma at the age of 62. Jessie was born September 9th, 1958 to Lucy Long in Wewoka, Oklahoma.

My Dad and Mom (C.A. {Charlie} and Mattie Sims) ran a grocery store in Holdenville from the early 1930s to the mid 1960s. Before that they lived in Yeager during the 1920s. My three older brothers, Jimmy, Leo and Bill, were all born in Yeager while I was born in Holdenville. I was in my teen years before I found out that Jimmy’s name was really Charles Douglas. Apparently an old man in Yeager started calling him Jimmy and that stuck with him his whole life.

The Holdenville City Council met on September 1 in one of the shortest meetings of the year, wrapping up in less than an hour. Although there was little action taken, the committee reports gave an idea of what the City has been accomplishing recently.

David Clark representing the Hughes County Historical Society is shown accepting a $250.00 donation from Kendal Logan of Security State Bank, Holdenville. David is the Resident Historian with the Hughes County Historical Society and is a 2011 graduate of Holdenville High School.

VACANT HOUSE FIRE - The Holdenville Fire Department responded to a structure fire at 924 South Gulf on Wednesday, September 16. According to the department’s report, the alarm was received at 8:20 a.m. and Chance North and Jarrad Rogers arrived at the vacant and unsecured structure in Engine 39 at 8:23 a.m. They began protecting the surrounding structures from the fire as they were quickly joined at the scene by Rick Branscum and JD Conley in Engine 38, Shon Taylor and Colton Bridger in Tanker 22, and Willie Dority and Colton Cox in Brush Pumper 42. After the fire was extinguished the last unit to clear the scene departed at 10:18 a.m. The report shows that the structure and its contents were a total loss. The cause of the fire is undetermined at this time.

Comments to: andybowman839@gmail.com Coffeetimecolumn.com We went for our daily walk together that evening, just like always. As we passed a neighbor’s home a few houses down from us, Renie remarked, “Hey, look, they are evidently redoing the flower bed there on the right side of the house.” To which Andy grunted a disinterested, “Why?…where?” Which prompted a rolling of the eyes from said wife, who then pointed and said, “Right THERE – can’t you tell?” Husband’s response was to look in the general direction she pointed and shrug, “Huh, didn’t notice.” Now, this has been going on for many years.