On Tuesday, December 22 at 2:30 a.m. a Holdenville police officer came upon a single car accident on Rogers Drive near Pizza Hut which led to the seizure of 95 grams of suspected methamphetamine, cash, several items of drug paraphernalia and a firearm. The estimated street value of the meth is more than $9,000 making it the largest drug bust of 2020 for the Holdenville Police Department.

Hughes County has received its first round of COVID-19 vaccines, with more expected in the near future. Holdenville General Hospital (HGH) received 42 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, December 17. Because of their extremely valuable importance in the fight against this virus, the health care workers on the front line were the first to receive these doses. This included the HGH staff as well as Hughes County EMS workers. It is important that these caretakers are able to remain on the job without contracting the virus themselves.

JANUARY 7, 1930 HIGH SCHOOL BLDG. BURNED TUESDAY MORNING Plans for the rebuilding of the Holdenville High School building which was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning are being worked out, Aubrey White, member of the Board of Education from the 4 th ward, stated early Thursday morning.

We were in a hurry to get to the upper pasture, the highest point on the farm. This was only the second time we had ever been out to the farm at this time of day….dusk. It felt a little scary, but we wanted to see the star!

This will be the last issue of the newspaper in 2020 and I am sure most of you will join me in being glad to see it go. Lots of good things have been hidden by the virus epidemic but the damage done to our nation as a whole will be felt for a long time.

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I admit it. I am one of those who makes New Year’s resolutions. Every December I evaluate how the prior year progressed and what I’d like to do to improve. Then I write down a dozen or so goals for the following twelve months. At year’s end I generally give myself a grade on each of the past year’s goals. Every year I fail to pass all my subjects. Maybe I need fewer, less ambitious goals. But some of us need to set goals and stick with them. Consider this: