A special thank you to my dear friend Ima Lee Lankford for identifying The Teachers Class Record Book that Charla Garner recently found. We recognized a few of the names but did not know where they went to school.
This will be the last issue of the newspaper in 2020 and I am sure most of you will join me in being glad to see it go. Lots of good things have been hidden by the virus epidemic but the damage done to our nation as a whole will be felt for a long time.
Christmas is the greatest time of the year. In 1938 my parents moved us (Mom, Dad, Gerald, and me) from Allen to a town called Centrahoma. There I met Letha Mae. It was there I started paying attention to Christmas.
We were in a hurry to get to the upper pasture, the highest point on the farm. This was only the second time we had ever been out to the farm at this time of day….dusk. It felt a little scary, but we wanted to see the star!
JANUARY 7, 1930 HIGH SCHOOL BLDG. BURNED TUESDAY MORNING Plans for the rebuilding of the Holdenville High School building which was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning are being worked out, Aubrey White, member of the Board of Education from the 4 th ward, stated early Thursday morning.
Hughes County has received its first round of COVID-19 vaccines, with more expected in the near future. Holdenville General Hospital (HGH) received 42 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, December 17.
On Tuesday, December 22 at 2:30 a.m. a Holdenville police officer came upon a single car accident on Rogers Drive near Pizza Hut which led to the seizure of 95 grams of suspected methamphetamine, cash, several items of drug paraphernalia and a firearm.
It’s time for Christmas music! Technically, of course, if you’re traditional about these things, it’s time for Advent music. Advent is the beautiful four-week season that precedes Christmas, a time of waiting in darkness for the light of Christ to dawn.
Merry Christmas to you and your families. Did you know that the promise of Christmas began in Genesis 3:15? GOD told the serpent that a descendent of Eve would appear one day and crush him. The promise was made more specific with Abraham.