Diana Lynn Langwell passed away Sunday, September 18th, 2022 at St John’s Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 73. Diana was born March 26th, 1949 in Holdenville, Oklahoma to Ray Madden and Julia (Jackson) Madden.

If I were superintendent of schools for a week, I’d make some curriculum changes you wouldn’t believe. For one thing, I’d take out English and history repetitions each year and only present it once or twice when it would do the most good. I would have math problems that resembled real life— instead of figuring how many pencils in five gross. (Did you ever buy a gross of anything in your life?) I would have kids figuring out how many Good Humor bars it would cost them if they had just broken the garage window and would have to forfeit their allowance of 45 cents for 21 weeks.

This little ditty comes to us courtesy of the lovely and talented Barbara Dull. I’m sorry, but did I hear you correctly when you read these signs to me? TOILET OUT OF ORDER.

By SEAN MURPHY HOLDENVILLE, Okla. — (AP) — Working as a prison guard in Oklahoma is becoming an ever more dangerous job as the state, with one of the highest incarceration rates in the United States, struggles with violence and understaffing at detention facilities. Long hours, dangerous conditions and remote, rural locations have meant fewer guards and a system plagued with increased killings and violence.

By Ken Childers Editor, Seminole Producer American Legion Post 204 is flying a burial flag the month of September in honor of a fallen U.S. Air Force veteran who was also a longtime educator.

Birdie Joann Elam passed away Saturday, September 17th, 2022 at her home in Wewoka, Oklahoma at the age of 86. Birdie was born March 21, 1936 in Ferris, Oklahoma to Henry Lloyd Votaw and Lona Irene (Jorden) Votax.

FELONIES Jerry D. Johnson— battery/assault and battery on Police Officer Jessica Danielle Lindley—use of motor vehicle in discharge of firearm Jade Aaron Robinson— feloniously pointing firearm, feloniously carrying a firearm, plan/attempt/conspire to perform act of violence MISDEMEANORS Jade Aaron Robinson – Resisting an officer, Battery/ Assault and Battery on Police Officer MARRIAGES George William Evans and Hattie Elizabeth Calabrese, both of Holdenville Ryan Weston Crawford and Wajennah Brandy McGirt, both of Holdenville CIVIL Brett Houck vs.

Officers of the Holdenville FFA chapter participated in the 2022 Oklahoma FF A Chapter Officer Leadership Training Conference Aug. 30 at the LifeChurch in McAlester, Oklahoma.

On Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at approximately 6:32 PM central dispatch notified deputy Josh Kelley of the Hughes County Sheriff’s department that a male subject identified as Jade Robinson, 41 of Wetumka, was inside the residence of his parents’ home at 1601 East Highway in Holdenville with a firearm shooting. Hughes County deputies Langdon, Teague, Defranco, and Kelley all responded to the call.

An aphorism is a short, pointed sentence expressing a wise or clever observation or a general truth. 1. The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow. 2. Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his tail. 3. If you don’t have a sense of humour, you probably don’t have any sense at all. 4. seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs. 5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you’re in deep water. 6. How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night? 7. Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without. 8. Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks? 9. Scratch a dog and you will have a permanent job. Oh, so very true!! 10. No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car. 11. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity. 12. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4:00 a.m. It could be a correct number. 13. No one ever says “It’s only a gam” when their team is winning. 14. I’ve reached the age where the happy hour is a nap., 15. Be careful reading the fine print. There’s no way you’re going to like it. 16. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket. 17. Do you realize that in about 40 years, there will be thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos. (And rap music will be the golden Oldies!) 18. Money can’t buy happiness—but somehow it’s more comfortable to cry in a Corvette than in a Yugo. 19. After 60, if you don’t wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead! 20. Always be yourself. Because the people that matter, don’t mind. And the ones that mind, don’t matter.