Elk City’s Merritt High School Trap Shooting Team were named State Champions for the second year in a row. Reese Hightower (white sports coat) is a member of that team and is pictured with teammates in the Oklahoma State Capitol building where they recognized on the House floor. The competition is sponsored each year by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife. In the second picture the team is pictured with the owner of the Kentucky Derby winner, Rich Strike. Reese is the son of Paul and Kay Hightower and the grandson of Vicki Stotts and the late Larry and Susie Speiker.

Volunteers from Holdenville Publics School FFA Program, led by Julie Horton, and Track and Basketball team, coached by Ryan Turner, volunteered to help clean up Holdenville Lake when Waylon Ford and Andy Massey asked for help. They were recognized recently by Waylon and Andy with special Lake Holdenville T-shirts for helping with the project. They did an excellent job and were a tremendous help. Thank you to all these students and their leaders for helping keep our lake beautiful! Funds for the t-shirts were donated by HHS Alumni Tomaletta Whitner Snyder and Dan Powell! Thank you to all who have helped with this project!

Harrison top county MOC finisher The Oklahoma Track Coaches Meet of Champions matches the top finishers in each class and lets them go head to head with the top competitors in the other classes. Multiple schools in Hughes County had top finishers at their respective state championship track meets and several of them competed in best against best competition.

Those called to serve God often wrestle with what can be a big decision. Missionary work, and taking on a life of sacrifice can take a huge toll. But for Creek preacher Jimmy Anderson in Holdenville, Oklahoma, there was another dilemma—the choice of being an artist or a man of God.

Pastor and Missionary Jimmy Anderson is set to retire from Many Springs Baptist Church this Sunday. Rev. Anderson will be honored this Saturday at Many Springs. Lunch will be served at 12:00 and program will begin at 2:00. Full story of Brother Anderson’s ministry pages 2&16.

Graduate Morgan Fry with her father, Robert Fry Graduates Brooklyn Brown and Sammie Eckles attended baccalaureate at First Baptist Church last week. Graduate Liberty Jackson with her mom Carla Griggs.

CALVIN, Okla. (KFOR) – An Oklahoma police chief was taken into custody after finding himself on the wrong side of the law.

Horntown experienced to earthquakes on the same day last week. May 14 registered two earthquakes, one a 1.5 - 6km west, southwest of Horntown. The other a 3.5 - 4km quake, west northwest of town. Many locals felt the quake as well as many people in the Holdenville Area.