Jose Martinez has been selected as the male Wolverine of the Week! Jose is a standout in both track and basketball! Mylisha Allen is this week’s female Wolverine of the Week. Mylisha is a cheerleader and plays on the basketball team..

ORWP hosted their annual meeting recently at the Durant Library and the turnout was impressive. Elected officials in attendance were Rep Eddy Dempsey (Garvin), Rep Jim Grego (Rep-17), Rep Justin Humphrey (Lane), Sen David Bullard (Durant), Sen George Burns (Pollard) and Commissioner Ron Boyer (Bryan County). Guest speakers and presentations were given by Chief Gary Batton and his science staff from the Water Resource Department of the Choctaw Nation. A warm welcome was extended to Secretary of Energy & Environment Ken Wagner who has fallen in love with southeastern Oklahoma.

When my Mom was alive my children would often quiz her about mistakes I made when I was their age. “Tell us about some of the bad stuff dad did when he was a kid” they’d ask. Mom usually tilted her head, smiled and said, “He really never did anything wrong. He was always a good boy.”

Art exploration for the young and young at heart What does the Thanksgiving holiday bring to mind? If you said family, roast turkey, cranberry sauce, or pumpkin pie, that would likely strike a chord in the minds of most Americans. If asked about the true origin of Thanksgiving, however, the answer might be a matter of greater debate, mixed, mashed, and buttered-up with inaccurate lore.

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The Atwood Community will be having their Christmas Celebration December 5 at 5:00 at the Atwood Fire Department. The theme is “Jingle for Jesus”. It is a pot luck dinner so bring your favorite dish and visit with Santa at 6:30. We will take pictures with Santa, receive a bag of goodies and have Christmas caroling. ~

Granville Blaine Turner, 74, died at Norman Regional Hospital, on October 26, 2021. He was born February 3, 1947 in Saint Louis Missouri, the son of Richard and Corean (Ingram) Turner.

Royal Clifton ‘RC’ Fearnow departed his earthly body at his home on Tuesday, October 9, 2021, in Holdenville, Oklahoma. Royal Clifton ‘RC’ Fearnow was born to George Fearnow and Doris (Bowman) Fearnow Aubert on April 24, 1955, in Ponca City, Oklahoma.

“The new wealth in America is familial wealth, and the new poverty, familial poverty,” Mary Eberstadt, a senior research fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute in Washington, wrote several years ago.