A BIG thank you to Street Commissioner Jim Thetford, who is out in zero degree weather clearing the roads. Watch out for Eli Robinson! A perfect Snow Angel by Augie Robinson Justin O’Kelley giving son Jackson a sled ride.

Holdenville Schools will be implementing a new on-line enrollment program for next year. In order for this to work, I need your (parent #1 on contacts) personal email address of next years 8th-12th grade student to enter into Wengage.

Richard Ellwanger, Executive Director of the Seminole Nation Museum in Wewoka, has been elected to serve as president of the Oklahoma Museums Association. Ellwanger was selected to lead the statewide nonprofit in September of 2020 and will serve a two-year term as president that began Jan.

Elmo (Moe) and Mary Collins met on a bus leaving McAlester, fell in love, and were married on February 9, 1951 in Hartshorne, Oklahoma. Moe was a radioman in the U.S. Navy. Mary would join him in Groton, Connecticut where he was stationed. That began their life together in love.

CLIFFORD DALTON 1965-66 RHONDA KAY DOSSETT 1965-66 JACK SHERRY 1965-66 JIMMY JOHNSON 1965-66 BETH MCDOUGAL 1965-66 1965-66 MARGARET ANN GRIGGS 1965-66 LEON AVERY 1965-66 JOHN SHELLY 1965-66 BOBBY ANDERSON 1965-66 LEE ALAN SHIPLEY 1965-66 PAUL STIRMAN 1965-66 SHIRLEY LOU HAMBY 1965-66 FRANKIE MOPPIN 1965-66 RANDY JOE SKILES 1965-66 JUSTEEN STEELE 1965-66 JOHNSON 1965-66 KEITH JENNINGS 1965-66.

Binas Hostettler was an outstanding oil and gas attorney in Hughes County. Binas came to Holdenville from Washington D.C.

City of Holdenville Street Commissioner Jim Thetford reminds residents that the annual Citywide brush and limb pickup will begin on March 1. He encourages everyone to spend time during the next couple of weeks pruning trees and shrubs in preparation for spring, as well as clearing away dead limbs and branches that have fallen during the winter.

Holdenville City Council member Jeanna Gordon, whose responsibilities include serving on the Airport Committee, presented a plan to the rest of the Council showing how they could save money renovating the airport terminal building using City workers instead of hiring contractors. Each step included a cost estimate. The City received a $20,000 grant for improvements to the building through the CARES Act.

There was a sigh of relieve in Holdenville and across Hughes and Seminole Counties when the Hughes County Sheriff’s Department announced on social media Wednesday evening that Tiberius Dodson had been taken into custody at a residence north of Holdenville after a brief, losing scuffle with a K-9 Officer.

HHS Basketball Homecoming Royalty Pictured L-R: Escort, Fa’khari Carter with Sophomore attendant Shelby Grissom, Tyson Buck with Basketball Homecoming queen, Leaigha Phillips, Junior attendant, Liberty Jackson with escort Josiah McPerryman, and Ryleigh Tiger and her escort, Izaia King, Flower Girl Bristol Langdon, and Ring Bearer Raden Tillery. MORE PICS AND SPORTS PAGE A-2