Barry Wood and wife Joetta hit the campaign trail in the Calvin 4th of July Parade. Barry is running for District 1 Hughes County Commissioner and will be on the ticket November 8.

Pictured at the reunion held at Sweetbelle Farms are: Standing: Jimmy Dolton, Lane (Monte) Taylor, Stephanie (Mendoza) Bridwell, David Grizzle, Jill (Johnson) Hall-Porter , Janet (Carter) Tracy, Shelley (Abplanalp) Cranfield, Charlotte (Self) Weider, Steve Corcoran, Billy Weaver, Dale Ford, Ted Griggs. Seated: James Brittain, Diana Swadley, Dana (Russell) Givens

Dead Week Everything in high school athletics is shut down. The facilities are closed! The coaches are not there.

I was going thru some early day issues of the paper and found a story I really enjoyed and wanted to share with our readers . .

Don’t apologize this July 4th. Conscientious, well-meaning people often slip into this: “I know the United States is flawed, HOWEVER” or “We’ve made mistakes, BUT” and similar white noise. I understand the urge; these things are not untrue but they are profoundly unfitting and disordered. They are truisms. All men and all nations are flawed. It is impious and pointless to harp on it on a day set aside for celebration of what is good in the U.S. Seriously, who prefaces a eulogy, wedding speech or birthday card with disclaimers about the character of the person being celebrated? To paraphrase Chesterton, “a nation isn’t honored because it’s great, rather, it’s great because it’s honored.” The honor due isn’t contingent on the quality of the person or thing being honored, but on what it is in itself regardless of what it has done, for good or ill. Perhaps if on such occasions we refused to qualify our devotion into oblivion we’d become people who could create a country more perfectly worthy of devotion, rather than bunch of navel-gazing solipsists who turn every lofty human thing into a house of mirrors at a carnival. As Coolidge wrote in 1918, “Reverence is not the measure of others, but ourselves.” We fight for what we honor, not the other way round. For the record, anyone who refuses to honor this nation would dishonor any. The overturning of Roe v. Wade by the United States Supreme Court shows this nation has a greatness many refuse to see. Happy Independence Day weekend, 2022.

WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 5-4 that Oklahoma can prosecute non-Native-Americans in Indian country, clawing back part of its 2020 decision recognizing nearly half of the state as a reservation.

Kylie Michael Hartley recently graduated as Salutatorian of Kaufman High School with a 5.0 gpa. She was President of the National Honor Society, President of Kaufman FFA, a State Qualifier in Computer Applications for UIL, and a member of the Kaufman High School Theater Company. Kylie has been accepted to the Texas Tech Honors College where she will be attending in the fall.