JUNE 15, 2021 JUDGE: TRISHA D. SMITH 9:00 AM William Keith Absher—domestic assault and battery by strangulation; domestic abuse-assault and battery Jason Arnold—possession of firearm after former felony conviction Jason Arnold—malicious injury to property-over $1000 Jason Arnold—protective order...

The annual Holdenville Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture Spring Car Show filled the streets in all directions from the intersection of Broadway and 7th Street with highly interesting cars, trucks, motorcycles and other vehicles on Saturday, June 5.

This 1950 Ford Crestliner is very similar to the one FRANK AND KAY PITCOCK went in on the their first date. There were only 1,760 of these cars made and they sold for $1,700.00.

Because of the generosity of Reggie Davis and his wife Lori Loftis Davis our local American Legion organization has a home. The building is located at 211 e. Main (where Dr. Jerry Anderson’s office used to be).

Sales tax disbursements and use tax disbursements were down for both the month and the year in the City of Holdenville and Hughes County, according to the monthly report released by the Oklahoma Tax Commission (OTC) on Tuesday, June 8.

Layton Richmond received the Shawn Meek Memorial scholarship, USA Little League Victor Bear Memorial scholarship, the HHS Alumni scholarship, and the Loaves and Fishes Scholarship.

Seventeen years old and with four years’ farming experience, William Newton Stokes arrived in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1905 and worked as freight agent and at teaming until 1908, when he was appointed clerk of the Seminole County Court at Konawa, a position he held until 1914.

Phillip Wood Freda Wilkes (1956 HHS Graduate) Don and Judy Adams Spurgeon. Judy is the daughter of the late Clyde and Zelma Adams Jim Turner and Wanda Chancellor Joyce Lively and Wanda Frederick Jim and Rick Thetford.

MESOPOTAMIA—It was going to be the first-ever Pride Month — a celebration of everyone doing everything they feel like doing in their hearts all the time — when it suddenly started raining and didn’t stop for forty days as God tried to wash all the wickedness off the earth.

Charles Shay was the only veteran at a ceremony in Carentan, where paratroopers landed in the early hours of D-Day, when the small French town marked the 77th anniversary of the epic World War II invasion Friday.