Wes Watkins Technology Center recently celebrated the newly renovated Health Careers Simulation Lab with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. WWTC was established in 1987 to provide technical education and farm business management to Hughes, McIntosh, and Okfuskee counties, and later incorporated parts of Okmulgee County. The school began with two programs: Farm Business Management and Practical Nursing. Since then, the technology center has expanded to 10 programs and an extensive offering of short-term and workforce and economic development training.

In prelims the band won the 1st Place spot in 3A Band at the ECU Tigerpalooza! They also received Outstanding 3A Percussion and Drum Major!! In finals, they finished 3rd behind Norman and Putnam City West by 4 and 2 points (out of 1200) respectfully. The Golden Pride also earned the Overall Outstanding Visual (Marching) Award for the 2nd consecutive week!!! They were also voted Fan Favorite!! Band Director Sam Crosby had this to say about his band: “I am insanely proud of this band they have worked so hard to put on a great show! Being so close to winning a contest stings because it was so close, but finishing 3rd just behind two very good 6A programs is nothing to hang our head about.

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FELONIES Jerry D. Johnson— battery/assault and battery on Police Officer Jessica Danielle Lindley—use of motor vehicle in discharge of firearm Jade Aaron Robinson— feloniously pointing firearm, feloniously carrying a firearm, plan/attempt/conspire to perform act of violence MISDEMEANORS Jade Aaron Robinson – Resisting an officer, Battery/ Assault and Battery on Police Officer MARRIAGES George William Evans and Hattie Elizabeth Calabrese, both of Holdenville Ryan Weston Crawford and Wajennah Brandy McGirt, both of Holdenville CIVIL Brett Houck vs.

By Ken Childers Editor, Seminole Producer American Legion Post 204 is flying a burial flag the month of September in honor of a fallen U.S. Air Force veteran who was also a longtime educator.

On Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at approximately 6:32 PM central dispatch notified deputy Josh Kelley of the Hughes County Sheriff’s department that a male subject identified as Jade Robinson, 41 of Wetumka, was inside the residence of his parents’ home at 1601 East Highway in Holdenville with a firearm shooting. Hughes County deputies Langdon, Teague, Defranco, and Kelley all responded to the call.

Officers of the Holdenville FFA chapter participated in the 2022 Oklahoma FF A Chapter Officer Leadership Training Conference Aug. 30 at the LifeChurch in McAlester, Oklahoma.

If I were superintendent of schools for a week, I’d make some curriculum changes you wouldn’t believe. For one thing, I’d take out English and history repetitions each year and only present it once or twice when it would do the most good. I would have math problems that resembled real life— instead of figuring how many pencils in five gross. (Did you ever buy a gross of anything in your life?) I would have kids figuring out how many Good Humor bars it would cost them if they had just broken the garage window and would have to forfeit their allowance of 45 cents for 21 weeks.

By SEAN MURPHY HOLDENVILLE, Okla. — (AP) — Working as a prison guard in Oklahoma is becoming an ever more dangerous job as the state, with one of the highest incarceration rates in the United States, struggles with violence and understaffing at detention facilities. Long hours, dangerous conditions and remote, rural locations have meant fewer guards and a system plagued with increased killings and violence.

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