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The Coalgate City Council recently agreed to contract with a water treatment consulting firm to alleviate the city’s water issues.
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Funeral services for Betty Jean Ellis Williams, a Tupelo resident, will be held Wednesday, August 11, 2021 (today) at 2:00 p.m. at Brown’s FuneralChapel in Coalgate with Pastor Kenneth May officiating. Burial will be in Byrd’s Prairie Cemetery with Brown’s Funeral Service of Coalgate in charge of arrangements.
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Graveside services for Don Henry King, a longtime Atoka, OK resident, were held Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. at New Zion Cemetery in Atoka with Bro. Woodrow King officiating. Brown’s Funeral Service of Atoka was in charge of arrangements.
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Charges were filed August 5 against a 44-year-old Coalgate man for possessing child pornography photos and uploading the photos by computer. Agent Rachell Savory, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, was the investigator.
Read moreMany of us who still go to Sunday School are studying a part of the Old Testament called Ecclesiastes. Not only can we not spell it, we in the “Cemetery” Class have a hard time trying to comprehend the teachings of the old teacher (Solomon). But we try. This morning I got out of bed and walked toward my kitchen where my wife was fixing our breakfast. She had our TV tuned to channel 25 and it was saying something about the “heartbreak of erectile disfunction.” That was the same commercial that had played the morning before. Yep. Just like in Ecclesiastes, it too had already been. And my breakfast was on the stove.
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Coalgate First Baptist Church will celebrate its 130th anniversary on Sunday, August 15. The anniversary theme is, “130 Years … Loving God & Loving People.”
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