The Holdenville Children’s Hospital building was recently burned in a house fire. A devistating loss for the family who lived there and a big part of Holdenville history gone..

Holdenville Firefighters responded to a fire on E. 8th Street in the early Monday morning hours this week. The home, which was originally the Holdenville Children’s Hospital, was a total loss. Photos Courtesy of Leslie Grippando (left photo) and Makayla Ballard (right photo).

The Holdenville City Council held their regularly scheduled meeting last Tuesday night. Most items on the agenda warranted little to no discussion before passing unanimously. Money was approved for the Fire Department to spend from their own budget on materials for Fire Prevention week coming up next week in Holdenville grade and middle schools, reserve police officer Robert Silva, Jr. was hired as a part-time officer, and a special election was set for November 9, 2021, to fill the vacant Ward 3 City Council seat.

Kaitlin Milligan of Norman shot 9-under to tie for 10 out of 397 women golfers from all over the world and easily advanced in the LPGA Qualifying tournament Stage One in late August at the Dinah Shore Course at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

Former HHS Band Director Ben Heath and his mother. Vance Vanhooser and the Edwards girls, Johnnie and Sheila..

Hospital admissions for COVID-19 patients in the United States are declining for the first time since late June, suggesting the latest surge has peaked. The seven-day average of new daily hospitalizations with confirmed COVID-19 dropped by 2.4 percent from a week earlier to about 12,280—the first such drop since around June 27, according to the U.S.

A hospital system in Oklahoma responded to a Rolling Stone article that claimed hospital emergency rooms in Oklahoma were turning away gunshot victims due to ivermectin overdose patients, saying that it has not treated patients due to complications from taking the drug.

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