GREAT NEWS! The New Leash on Life Prison Pen Pals Program director, Barbara Lewis, chose four Holdenville Animal Shelter Dogs to participate in its training program at our local prison! Riley, Chrissy, Minnie and Rosa started a ten-week program beginning on March 22, 2023 at 11:00am.

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Following Anheuser-Busch’s embrace of a mentally ill man pretending to be a woman as the face of Bud Light, conservatives across the country showed their displeasure by boycotting the beer brand, causing Bud Light to lose more than $5 billion in market capitalization in the last week.

Timothy Harris passed away Wednesday, April 19, 2023 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 59. Timothy was born February 16, 1964 in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Robert Edward Harris and Daisy (Lilley) Harris.

Jessy Cook- 1st Place - 8th Grade Ag Explorations Zane Peters- 5th Place - 8-9-10th grade general ag Lillian Scroggins - FFA Creed Elizabeth Swadley - FFA Creed.

Congratulations to Jonathan Wiseman and Ashtin Dennis on being awarded The Gates Scholarship! They are 2 of the 750 students awarded this scholarship out of 51,000 who applied..

Holdenville Police Chief, Kyle Lening along with Hughes County Deputy Trevor Teague, hosted a seminar on active shooter preparedness last week for all school administrators in Hughes County.

Mike Schmitt Inducted into Illinois Hockey Hall of Fame Our good friend and Lamar resident Mike Schmitt recently attended a celebration in Chicago in honor of his induction into the Illinois Hockey Hall of Fame. Attending with Mike was his wife, the former Anita Mills of Lamar.

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