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.

Highlights from Yeager Alumni Reunion.

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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.

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. True stories, gigantic whoppers, or funny gossip, it was all fair game to that man.

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.

The week of January 9th was an exciting one for the Holdenville FFA Chapter. The annual pie auction was held on Thursday the 12th to raise funds for the Holdenville Ag Booster Club.

MAYLEN AND CARPITCHER PARTICIPATE IN ALL-STATE BAND.

Blayne Norman may be new to the Hughes County District Attorney’s office, but the young, new Assistant District Attorney is no stranger to Hughes County. Norman’s roots run deep in the Holdenville and Wewoka area, going back three generations. Blayne’s great-grandfather, Jim Phillips was perhaps the most well-known businessman in both Holdenville and Wewoka where Jim and his wife Jean owned and operated two funeral homes.