Holdenville dominates Marietta 52-0 It was fitting that last Thursday’s game at Marietta was played right before Halloween. It was a dark dreary night in a dimly lit stadium.

Holdenville, OK – In a proactive move towards disaster preparedness, Lori Beth Marshall, a dedicated contractor employed by Hughes County, recently convened with key figures in the region. Among those present were Holdenville School Superintendent Randy Davenport, East Central Oklahoma Family Health Center CEO, Donna Dyer, and also Blake Enos, Local Emergency Response Specialist with the Oklahoma State Department of Health. The meeting, coordinated by Hughes County Emergency Manager Mike Dockrey, focused on formulating a comprehensive hazard mitigation plan for the county.

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Most of our generation of 60+ were HOME SCHOOLED in many ways. We just didn’t know it at the time.

Halloween is Friday night and Philip Gulley shared the thoughts of many of us when he wrote the following: For nine years, my wife and I lived in the city, down a long lane, next to the Quaker meeting I pastored. Our first Halloween, we loaded up on candy, anticipating a horde of pirates, ghosts, and witches. But the lane was dark and spooky and not one kid showed up, so for the next month, we ate mini Snickers for dessert at every meal, even breakfast. Then we moved to a small town, and carloads of urchins mobbed our home at Halloween, swarming our front door like rats on raw meat. After the first hour, we were out of candy and began emptying our cupboard to beat back the mob, doling out squares of baking chocolate, sugar cubes, packets of Sweet’N Low. When we ran out of treats, they began TP’ing our trees, soaping our windows, and igniting paper sacks of manure on our porch. It was wonderfully nostalgic, reminding me of my childhood, and I went to bed happy.

Billie Loyce Hawthorne Muse was born on December 1, 1932 at her home near Panola, Oklahoma to William Lee Hawthorne and Josie Olivia Davis Hawthorne, She passed away on October 26, 2023 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at the age of 90.

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Judith “Judy” Ann Orr, 80, wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend of many went to be with our Heavenly Father on 23 October 2023. She was surrounded by family and died peacefully at her home in Choctaw.