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Friday, October 15, is the last day to apply for voter registration in order to be eligible to vote in the November 9 Coal County Special Election, Coal County Election Board Secretary Amber Fanning said today. Voters will decide two resolutions totaling $20.7M to build a new hospital and make improvements to Ruth Wilson Hurley Manor nursing home.
Read moreThe rise of the keyboard, and smart technology, has seen the tradition of handwriting fall by the wayside in most modern classrooms.
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When I was a teenager someone recommended I read The Disciplined Life, by Dr. Richard Shelly Taylor. I picked up the book and eye-balled the Table of Contents: Chapter 1, Discipline, the Key to Power; Chapter 2, Discipline, the Mark of Maturity. My eyes perused the page until they caught on Chapter 6: How to Become a Disciplined Person. “That’s it! That’s what I need!” I thought and turned quickly to page 81, skipping all that boring preliminary stuff. There I read these guilt producing words: “Some of you will spot the title of this chapter while scanning the Contents and, recognizing that becoming a disciplined person is the goal, will suppose that to read only this chapter will be sufficient. Such an attempt may be symptomatic of your need for discipline.”
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Religion. Being good enough for God to accept us. Many do turn to religion…trying to always behave and say the perfect things. So that hopefully, their holy God will be obliged to help them handle the fears and horrible problems in life. But down deep, each of us know ourselves well enough to have to admit, “Being perfect all the time - that just ain’t possible!”
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Covid perils are still holding forth. But just not so bad now as perhaps a week or two ago. And will it reload and again assert itself as the big news story of our time and be the killer it has been. I hope not. This Covid has terrorized the world long enough. Well, long enough for me. One doctor amazed at the denial among the anti-vaxxers reports that many of these deniers who have already been smacked down by this dreaded virus insist to the death (theirs) that they don’t have Covid. Such is the strength of the organizers of resistance to this happening. It’s very sad. But the denial is as real as the virus itself.
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The Choctaw Nation on September 21 awarded the city of Coalgate $5,400 and Coal County $3,800 from the Choctaw Community Partner Fund to continue to help strengthen and develop the local area.
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Haley Bilodeau, left, Bailey Crites, center, and Denise House. Haley is teaching 4 and 5 grade Writing and 5 and 6 grade P.E., Bailey Crites is teaching first grade, and Denise House is teaching third grade. These ladies are a great addition to the Emerson staff.
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