Podcasts available at Coffeetimecolumn.com Send any responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com While out walking we met, greeted, and walked on past a lady who suddenly tripped over the little dog scampering at her feet. Causing her to fall face first on the hard street surface.

Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org. Persistent Priorities I used to wear a t-shirt that read “God first, family second, then the NY Yankees.

On Sunday, November 6, 2022, OSBI began an investigation into a deadly shooting in rural Seminole County, between the towns of Sasakwa and Wewoka. The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office had received a 911 call regarding a shooting that occurred at that location. Upon arrival, deputies located Russell “Rusty” Bolen, 33 years old, deceased at the scene. An additional individual, Robie Watters, 52 years old, had also been shot, and was transported from the scene. Daniel Sisco, 46 years old, reported Bolen and Watters pointed firearms at him, and he shot at them, striking both of them. OSBI agents responded to the scene, interviewed individuals, and conducted a thorough crime scene investigation.

The Holdenville Wolverines opened their 2022-23 basketball season on the road last week and took one on the chin at Caddo. The girl’s lost the opening game by a score of 28-66 and the boys lost by a score of 40-65. Both teams will play again on Tuesday when they travel to Seminole. The boys and girls are both expected to have good seasons but things didn’t go Holdenville’s way at Caddo. Traditionally, basketball season can be divided into three sub seasons. The first is the pre-Holiday season, next is the post-Holiday season and the last would naturally be the play-offs. There’s still lots of games to be played before the Holidays. Holdenville will play eight more times before Christmas break and all of those games will be on the road. Holdenville will play their first home game on January10. There’s plenty of time for improvement before the play-offs begin in late February.

We live in an age that is obsessed with things. We fill our homes with the latest gadgets and fashions and then, when we run out of space, rent a storage unit.

Most of our gener ation of 60+ were H OME SCHOOLED in many ways. We just didn’t know it at the time.

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Our sympathy is extended to the family of Glen Harjo Glenn Dale Harjo “Locv”, 62, of Holdenville, Oklahoma passed away November 23, 2022 at SSM Saint Anthony Hospital in Midwest City, Oklahoma. He was born in Talihina, Oklahoma on March 2, 1960 to Newman Harjo Jr and Cindy Lee Bruner Harjo.

A Citizens Complaint form has been filed with the Oklahoma Attorney General as well as with the Office of Civil Rights Enforcement, the Hughes County Budget Board, and the Hughes County District Attorney against the Hughes County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) by David Holman who is voicing concerns of what he believes is possible criminal activity within the Hughes County Sheriff’s Office and Hughes County Sheriff Marcia Maxwell. In a statement written by Mr.