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Thanksgiving is all about food, family, friends, and festivity.
Read moreThe 2021 Coalgate Wildcat football season was arguably their best of the past three years.
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ORWP hosted their annual meeting recently at the Durant Library and the turnout was impressive. Elected officials in attendance were Rep Eddy Dempsey (Garvin), Rep Jim Grego (Rep-17), Rep Justin Humphrey (Lane), Sen David Bullard (Durant), Sen George Burns (Pollard) and Commissioner Ron Boyer (Bryan County). Guest speakers and presentations were given by Chief Gary Batton and his science staff from the Water Resource Department of the Choctaw Nation. A warm welcome was extended to Secretary of Energy & Environment Ken Wagner who has fallen in love with southeastern Oklahoma.
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I spent my first two years of college in Nashville, TN, which I considered as getting my education in “The South.”
Read moreHow does your mom cook a turkey? That was the question asked in 1994 to Mrs. Barbara Elkins’ 3rd grade class at Emerson Elementary.
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Thanksgiving? Here again? It’s almost stylish these days to say: “Thankful for what?” Well, let’s just look back a bit. One in particular noteworthy year in my life was 1963. Fresh out of college and my military service behind me, things never looked any better. I was glad to have my military service behind me. The hard times of working my way through college had left Pat and me with sighs of relief. A new and first baby boy in our family was for sure a joy. And I was living and working in Ada. How could it get better?
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