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A 32-year-old man was killed in a multi-vehicle crash along US-270 in Seminole County on Tuesday night. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Ryan Long was a driver involved in the crash near NS3590 Road and was declared dead at the scene by first responders.

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Oklahoma’s 2024 legislative session is just around the corner. The deadline for state lawmakers to request bill drafting is December 8, 2023, and the deadline for filing bills is January 18, 2024. The legislative session begins on February 5, 2024.

Holdenville, OK- In a recent City Council meeting, the city’s ongoing efforts to modernize and enhance governance took center stage as City Manager Larry Mitchell proposed revisions to existing ordinances. These changes are part of an overarching initiative to adapt to the city’s new form of city manager government.

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Grandma lay in the hospital bed, a shadow of the vital, energetic woman she had been just a year ago. Her strong hands that were endlessly involved in her family’s life, providing, comforting, and disciplining, now lay listlessly on the bed cover, thin and fragile. Eyes that always had been sparkling with life and occasionally sparking with irritation when one of her grandchildren had been “acting the fool” now were clouded with pain and fatigue. Her famous silver cloud of hair that she always wore in a short halo around her head? Long gone in the garbage heap of life, along with her energy and zest for life.

It is said our great-grandfathers called it the holy Sabbath, our grandfathers the Sabbath, our fathers Sunday, and we call it the weekend. We have substituted the holiday for the holy day, recreation for reverence, games for godliness, and dissipation for devotion. In short, we use the gift of the Lord’s Day to destroy the (its) Giver.