By Jonathan Greco, KOCO News Joshua Butler, former Wetumka resident and escaped inmate from the Okfuskee County Jail, was shot and killed by Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers on Thursday last week during a manhunt near Wetumka. The incident unfolded in Hughes County along Highway 9, igniting a major law enforcement response.

Basketball Season Resumes Essentially there’s 4 parts to basketball season. The season begins with scrimmage season, then pre-Christmas season, then post Christmas Season and finishes with the most important Play-off season.

Yep, it’s that time again, when we all take a look at our past years and cast our eyes forward to the future — which we suppose might be an improvement over the past. It’s Sunday afternoon as I sit down to write this which I will simply think of as my “New Years Column.” Well, I guess I need to call it something.

Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org. The calendar has been flipped, the decorations are stowed and most of the ill-fitting or unwanted gifts have been returned or re-gifted.

It all began several months ago when our president, Diane Bowman, asked if we wanted to enter a float in the Christmas parade. Her question was met with either tepid enthusiasm or stunned silence, depending on how you interpreted it.