Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org. They’re all out of step but Jim To hear my mom tell it, you›d think I was a perfect child.

ADA – East Central University is recognizing students for their outstanding academic work during the Fall 2020 semester by naming them to the President’s Honor Roll. The President’s Honor Roll is reserved for students who earn A’s in all of their courses for a perfect 4.0 GPA.

Good morning everyone. Hope everyone is starting this New Year with renewed hope for a better year in 2021. You may not feel blessed right now – perhaps you are battling a bad case of discouragement or frustration or Covid, but we are blessed in CHRIST all the time. We simply have to remind ourselves to walk in the light and acknowledge the LORD as our lamp. Ephesians 1:3 and 5:8 tell us: “Blessed be the GOD and FATHER of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, Who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in HEAVENLY places in CHRIST … Walk as Children of light.”

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Robert Davis, 71, longtime Hughes County resident, was called to his Heavenly home Friday, December 18, 2020, in his Holdenville home. Robert was born January 20, 1949 in Wewoka, Oklahoma to Jessie Davis and Ora (Johnson) Davis.

Shirley Cristelee (Taylor) Lee McAdoo passed away in Holdenville, Oklahoma on Sunday morning, January 3, 2021, at the age of 84 years. Shirley was the daughter of Alton Jewel Taylor and Era (Westerman) Taylor, born on May 27, 1936, in Wewoka, Oklahoma.

A trio of items during the January 5 City Council meeting focused on the effort to tackle the problem of theft and other crimes in the community. This included an agreement with Oklahoma Mutual Assurance Group (OMAG) to install GPS in police vehicles, the hiring of a new police officer, and the acquisition of T-Mobile phones for the Neighborhood Watch program.

Friday, January 15th, is the last day to apply for voter registration in order to be eligible to vote in the February9th Allen and Weleetka Public School Special Election, Hughes County Election Board Secretary Brandy Davis said today.

Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org. Barking at Children My daughter and her best friend Jana still talk about the day I barked at them in the shopping mall when they were pre-teens.

The Oklahoma State Board of Education approved a one-year suspension of the Oklahoma School Report Card letter grades for the 2020-21 school year. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister said the move is necessary in light of the significant disruptions in instruction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Holdenville Public School Superintendent, Randy Davenport told The News, “As of now there will be no report card for this year due to the pandemic. That could change at any time but that’s the case as of now. That being said, we don’t believe that these report cards are a true picture of what our students have accomplished or where we are as school system. There is a much bigger picture to what we do in public education. What we do and how they’ve grown simply can’t be measured simply by single letter grade.”