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Wolverine Track Team Preps for Regionals The Holdenville High School track teams will head to Madill this Saturday for regional competition. The Wolverines ran against some of the toughest large schools in the state last Saturday at Ardmore to prepare for this week’s competition.

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On the afternoon of April 18th, 2023 at approximately 2:47PM, the Holdenville Police Department along with the Hughes County Sheriff’s Office responded to 214 S. Gulf St in Holdenville, OK for a report of a male subject with a gunshot wound. Officers and Deputies arrived on scene and found a male subject on the ground with a single shotgun wound to the abdomen and another man in the yard who stated to officers that he was the one who called 911 and was also the shooter. Hughes County Deputies detained the man while Holdenville Firefighters arrived on scene to render first aid response to the gunshot victim until Hughes County EMS arrived on scene. The victim was transported by ambulance to Holdenville General Hospital where he was then transferred by helicopter to a trauma center in OKC.

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The new City Council was sworn in last Tuesday at the City of Holdenville’s first meeting under the new city manager form of government. Local Attorney Ryan Pitts swore in Ron Thetford (Ward 1), Tony Wulf (Ward 2), Mike Dockrey (Ward 3), Don Merriman (Ward 4), and Lori Babb (At Large) to begin the meeting.