According to police reports, in the early morning hours of October 15, 2020 at approximately 1:25am, a Holdenville City police officer was sitting in the parking lot of Jazz’s restaurant watching traffic when a red, four-door Ford F-150, later found to belong to Willard “Bill” Freeman, turned off...

We have learned this past week that a bill has been filed to ban the Chinese Communist Party from owning land in the United States. Anders Corr writes the following.

GENE AUTRY, Okla. (KXII) - Four men were arrested near Smokey Ridge Road and Gene Autry Road yesterday during an illegal marijuana grow bust.

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (KFOR) – Officials with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics say they were able to bust another illegal marijuana grow operation but discovered something unusual at the site.

Keeping in step with this year’s Summer Reading Program theme of “Tails and Tales,” Grace M. Pickens Library hosted a special “Alpaca Madness” event at the Stroup Park Pavilion on Wednesday, June 16.

Holdenville First Baptist Church will be going to camp on June 28 through July 2 for grades 7th to high school graduates. All 7 thru HS grads are welcome to go. Registration forms will be available to First Baptist Church at 324 N. Broadway. The office is open Monday thru Thursday from 8 am—4 pm.

Scene from about 1901. W.M. Taylor, 3rd from the left, was one of Holdenville’s prominent bankers. Mr. Taylor bought this load of cotton which at that time was the largest load of cotton to ever come to Holdenville

Meet Chuck! What he lacks in height, he makes up for with heart. Meet Pudge! Looking this good makes a pup tired.

June 22 nd Today in History— D.L. Moody’s first service in England, 1873; France surrenders to Germany in World War II, 1940; Germany invades USSR, 1941; three civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi (later found slain)., 1964; law giving eighteen-year-olds the right to vote in U.S.

In the past we have had Arkansas Day, Peanut Festival, Catfish Festival, Hog Wild Days, and Fall Festival. Could a Marijuana Festival be in Holdenville’s future? It is big business in Hughes County and growing quickly.