Years ago, as elementary students at a tiny country school, our bus driver took us to school in his huge station wagon. That meant we kids got to talk with him for an entire hour – both ways. Good-natured and chatty, he would entertain us as he drove.

Tom Turner has been a familiar face in and around Holdenville for most of his life. He is originally from Illinois but explains that his parents, Rev. Richard and Corean Turner moved to Holdenville when he was 11 years old and in the 6th grade. His father was the pastor at Harvest Time Church.

Highlights from Yeager Alumni Reunion.

HOLIDAY IN REVIEW BY Fran Little Now that the holiday vacation is about over college students are beginning to go back to school; housewives beginning to clear away Christmas decorations; and nearly everyone is beginning to settle down in the familiar rut.

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How many times did your parents yell something like “Be Quiet!” There were usually several exclamation points following the words and the decibel level of your parent was anything but quiet. Likely it was because you, the child, were being noisy, loud, demanding or irritating.

Michael Christian Wilcox, 32, of Holdenville, was booked into the Seminole County Jail on January 13 and charged with one count of producing, procuring, possessing juvenile pornography, one count of lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16, and one count of forcible sodomy.

POINTS OF ENLIGHTMENT from some of the greatest minds of our times. Al Mc-Guire: “The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.” Albert Einstein: “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

The filing period for Holdenville’s upcoming city council election has been set for February 6-8. A resolution passed by the city council has set the dates and seats which will ne open for the eleciton.

First Grade Superintendent’s Karla Alfaro, Molli Arthur, Nicholas Babb, Blakeleigh Bowman, Piper Brooks, Dontreal Cole, Olivia Cole, Brecklynn Crawford, Madilynn Davis, Kyra Davis, Journee Foster, Leyton Goolsby, Millie Grady, Kadie Griffin, Cami Grizzle, Camden Hancock, Weston Hoover, Nehemiah...