An area musician and songwriter composed a song of hope following the April outbreak of tornados that claimed a total of four lives, including two young victims in Holdenville. The song soon took on a life of its own, and will hopefully help benefit the families of the the two Holdenville victims.

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Christopher Bryant Dilbeck, age 28, of Holdenville, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammu- nition.

A man wanted in con-nection to a stabbing in Holdenville earlier this month was arrested over the weekend in Seminole County. On July 5, the District 22 Task Force, an arm of Dis-trict Attorney Erik John-son’s office, announced that a search was under- way for Michael Calvert, who was suspected of com-mitting assault with a deadly weapon earlier that morning.

A July 17 vehicle accident in Atoka County that killed a Holdenville man remains under investigation. The crash occurred around 9:40 p.m.

HOLDENVILLE OLD NEWS 1941 MCCAIN MAKES OFFER – ONE CITY BASEBALL CLUB Saturday was the second full day of spring, and with it downtown came D.J. McCain, manager of the local independent ball club last season, a troop of boys who were fairly itching to get into baseball uniforms at his heels.

Wolverines picked 2nd in District Although the first day of practice is three weeks away, the hype for the 2024 football season has already begun. The pre-season rankings have placed the Holdenville Wolverines as the 7th best team in Class 2A and the pre-season prognosis for the 2A -2 district has the Wolverines as the district runner-up.

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