In responding to a letter from Hughes County Sheriff Marcia Maxwell stating that she was ending the county and the tribe’s crossdeputization agreement, Muscogee Nation Interim Attorney General Kyle Haskins wrote his own letter Feb. 15 extending an invitation to rebuild the relationship.

Banning Social Emotional Learning Sen. Shane Jett is taking air at national organizations seeking to implement socialemotional learning (SEL) programs in the state’s public school systems by filing Senate Bill 1442, which would prohibit public school districts or charter schools from using federal, state or private funds to promote, purchase or utilize the concepts of SEL Jett said organizations like Collaborative for academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL), funded by leftist groups like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, have pushed programming in public schools to psychologically manipulate children and surveil Oklahoma families under the guise of addressing trauma.

District 24 State Representative David Smith will hold a town hall meeting this Saturday, March 12 for all constiuents in the area who may have questions for him. The Oklahoma State Legislature is currently in session and Representative Smith has information he’d like to share concerning bills coming up for a vote this year. Representative Smith invites you to the Holdenville Church of the Nazarene fellowship hall at 323 S. Oak, March 12 at 12:00pm. Refreshments will be served. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet your State Representative.

There’s an old saying: “Dear God: Help me get up; I can fall down by myself.” Robert Redford’s film “Quiz Show” gives us the story of a man who fell hard. A young professor at Columbia University, Charles Van Doren gets the chance to appear on “Twenty-One,” a 1950s television quiz show.

Invading another nation, bombing hospitals, and killing civilians is not enough to get you kicked off of Twitter, but calling for peace and order will get you banned. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Twitter account, which has 1.5 million followers, remained active as of Friday, as Putin’s forces continue their invasion of Ukraine and attacks on the Ukrainian people.

You are going to love this. If death has been abolished, then some would say we seem to be stuck with the proverbial “dead man walking.” The corpse appears very much alive and the grim reaper persists in taking down a fair to middlin’ number of victims every day.

Eliza Maylen and her younger sister Avery Belle McFarland Brooklynn O-Bryant Ashlynn Chaney More Pictures Next Week Pictures Courtesy of Carrie McFarland.

Rev. David Michael Newbold went home to Jesus on February 23rd at age 61.

Billy Wayne Bishop, 61, of Holdenville, Oklahoma lost his battle with cancer and passed away at Boyce Manor Nursing home in Holdenville, Ok on March 4, 2022. Billy was born on March 17, 1960 in Holdenville, Ok to Billy Dean and Dee Ann (Winningham) Bishop.