If you’re a Wolverine Basketball addict, you didn’t get your basketball fix this past week but there’s hope the teams will head to Lindsay on Friday. The Wolverines were going to travel to Henryetta last Tuesday and the schedule posted a final home game with Chandler coming to town on Friday. There was even talk of a make-up game with Konawa on Monday but none of those games were played. The travel problems and an eligibility issue on behalf of one of the opponents kept the Wolverines off the basketball court.

HHS Basketball Homecoming Royalty Pictured L-R: Escort, Fa’khari Carter with Sophomore attendant Shelby Grissom, Tyson Buck with Basketball Homecoming queen, Leaigha Phillips, Junior attendant, Liberty Jackson with escort Josiah McPerryman, and Ryleigh Tiger and her escort, Izaia King, Flower Girl Bristol Langdon, and Ring Bearer Raden Tillery. MORE PICS AND SPORTS PAGE A-2

There was a sigh of relieve in Holdenville and across Hughes and Seminole Counties when the Hughes County Sheriff’s Department announced on social media Wednesday evening that Tiberius Dodson had been taken into custody at a residence north of Holdenville after a brief, losing scuffle with a K-9 Officer.

Holdenville City Council member Jeanna Gordon, whose responsibilities include serving on the Airport Committee, presented a plan to the rest of the Council showing how they could save money renovating the airport terminal building using City workers instead of hiring contractors. Each step included a cost estimate. The City received a $20,000 grant for improvements to the building through the CARES Act.

City of Holdenville Street Commissioner Jim Thetford reminds residents that the annual Citywide brush and limb pickup will begin on March 1. He encourages everyone to spend time during the next couple of weeks pruning trees and shrubs in preparation for spring, as well as clearing away dead limbs and branches that have fallen during the winter.

My baby sister, Paula Dunlap, and I have many things in common, the most notable of which is her daughter, Jessica Dunlap, and Jessica’s 11-year-old manchild, Preston. As the oldest sibling, I have always been a little bossy; as the baby of the family, her gorgeous red hair, brown eyes, kind and gentle nature and a giving heart among many other attributes, have always made her special.

Binas Hostettler was an outstanding oil and gas attorney in Hughes County. Binas came to Holdenville from Washington D.C.

CLIFFORD DALTON 1965-66 RHONDA KAY DOSSETT 1965-66 JACK SHERRY 1965-66 JIMMY JOHNSON 1965-66 BETH MCDOUGAL 1965-66 1965-66 MARGARET ANN GRIGGS 1965-66 LEON AVERY 1965-66 JOHN SHELLY 1965-66 BOBBY ANDERSON 1965-66 LEE ALAN SHIPLEY 1965-66 PAUL STIRMAN 1965-66 SHIRLEY LOU HAMBY 1965-66 FRANKIE MOPPIN 1965-66 RANDY JOE SKILES 1965-66 JUSTEEN STEELE 1965-66 JOHNSON 1965-66 KEITH JENNINGS 1965-66.

A special thank you to Claudia Olivo for stopping by and helping me put up my new flag. I asked her about her mom Alice and she told me she was doing great. The Olivo family is very special to us and are life-long friends. Alice’s husband Snooks and my dad roughnecked together for many years and always had some great stories to share . . . Seven year old Grandson Augie told Dane that he was supposed to dress up like an old man for school Friday. He then told Dane he wanted to dress like I do . . . That reminded me of Owen Wilkes who was getting his four-year-old grandson out of his car seat when he gazed into my his eyes and delivered this bit of wisdom: Papa, you’re old. But at least you’re not dead yet.” Readers Digest

Elmo (Moe) and Mary Collins met on a bus leaving McAlester, fell in love, and were married on February 9, 1951 in Hartshorne, Oklahoma. Moe was a radioman in the U.S. Navy. Mary would join him in Groton, Connecticut where he was stationed. That began their life together in love.