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Oklahoma Youth Legislative Experience Great for Students and Teachers
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Oklahoma Youth Legislative Experience Great for Students and Teachers
July 27, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY – There are some days when work is much better than others. I often tell young Oklahomans that it is important to find a career, not a job, when it comes to selecting employment, though ...
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Mostly Educational: Education’s Third Rail: Parents
July 27, 2022
I once watched a movie about people trapped in a New York City subway tunnel and above all, they knew to avoid the third rail. Electrically powered subways derive their power through contact with a hi...
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Martha’s Musings
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Martha’s Musings
July 27, 2022
Folks, I have shifted into neutral and I'm letting the motor idle. Not sure I could even get myself into high gear again! Actually, I don’t even want to. I enjoy being idle. I still remember high gear...
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Looking Back 100 Years
July 22, 2022
July 21, 1922 DISPUTE OVER TERRITORY IN THIS DISTRICT A more or less perplexing thing has come up in the south end of the county matter changing the boundary lines of commissioners’ districts. The old...
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Summer means interim legislative studies
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Summer means interim legislative studies
July 20, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) is gearing up for our annual gala on July 30. The Heroes Ball, held as a simulcast event from locations in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, all...
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Mostly Educational: Summertime blues and twitches
July 20, 2022
Remember the bliss of summertime? For a child, nothing but Christmas compares to the last day of school and the beginning of summer vacation. Exciting conquests and sleeping late. Vacations, camps, sw...
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Martha’s Musings
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Martha’s Musings
July 20, 2022
Folks, I wish you could see my field of sunflowers. Ok, so it’s not a field. One must use their imagination, sometimes. However, it is a nice area just outside both of the two big windows here at the ...
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Final Summer Reading Program ahead Monday
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Final Summer Reading Program ahead Monday
July 15, 2022
This Monday, July 18 will be the final Summer Reading Program at 1:30 p.m. in Veterans Park, next to the Henryetta Public Library. Nadine Graham will host the program on swimming and water safety. We ...
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Dachshund Sausages
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Dachshund Sausages
July 15, 2022
July is National Hot Dog Month! While I am not a huge hot dog fan, this is something easy to put together and doesn’t require heating up the house to cook! Plus, when I put my column together, you can...
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Summer means interim legislative studies
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Summer means interim legislative studies
July 13, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY – In addition to high temperatures, summer means legislative work shifts to interim studies. For those not familiar, interim studies are requested reviews of policy by lawmakers held thr...
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Mostly Educational: Plan now to pray for Oklahoma schools
July 13, 2022
Summertime for churches is similar to summertime in schools. It is a time of recharging, but summer is also a critical planning time. Little happens in the fall or spring without intense planning in t...
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My Life at the Retirement Village
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My Life at the Retirement Village
July 13, 2022
Folks, will you humor me again and let me tell you about me and mine? So here goes! We have another hummer in the family! He just turned one year old. He hums while he plays. He hums while he eats. He...
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New limits expand 401(k), IRA opportunities
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New limits expand 401(k), IRA opportunities
July 8, 2022
You could spend two, or even three, decades in retirement. So, to pay for all those years, you’ll probably need to take full advantage of your retirement accounts. And in 2022, you may have expanded o...
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Mostly Educational: Toby Dawn’s Fall fireworks prediction
July 6, 2022
JULY 1 - The doorbell rang shortly after sunrise. Barely awake, I scurried to the door, but no one there . . . just a faint burning smell that I recognized a split second too late. Pop! Pop! Pop! And ...
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Second childhood
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Second childhood
July 6, 2022
Folks, seems like regularly, I find I'm starting to realize and admit, I am this old! The fact of the matter is, I just keep waking up every morning. However, by the time I make coffee and toast, take...
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Offering happy, safe holiday wishes
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Offering happy, safe holiday wishes
July 1, 2022
Henryetta Public Library would like to wish everyone a happy and safe 4th of July on Monday. The library will be closed that day to celebrate Independence Day and we will not have a Summer Reading Pro...
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What investors can and can’t control
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What investors can and can’t control
July 1, 2022
As an investor, you can easily feel frustrated to see short-term drops in your investment statements. But while you cannot control the market, you may find it helpful to review the factors you can con...
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Mental health takes center stage
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Mental health takes center stage
July 1, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY – Mental health issues have been key with state leaders over the past two legislative sessions. The number of suicides among adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 increased in five s...
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Mostly Educational: Education issues that unite Oklahomans
June 29, 2022
The upcoming elections illustrate why Oklahoma educators do not vote consistently. We are simply weary of voting either for or against what’s happening in faraway places like Seattle. Lately, statewid...
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A natural, genuine gardening instinct
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A natural, genuine gardening instinct
June 29, 2022
Folks, in just a few days, I will have lived here at the retirement village for three years. I find that hard to believe! Yes and it remains the delightful place I thought it would be. It just suits m...
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Candidates speak at County GOP meeting
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Candidates speak at County GOP meeting
December 12, 2025
The Okmulgee County Republican Party held its monthly meeting at the American Legion Post 10, where a crowd gathered to hear State Auditor Cindy Byrd now running for lieutenant governor - and Deputy S...
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Community brings Bethlehem to life
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Community brings Bethlehem to life
December 12, 2025
A beloved holiday tradition came to life last Saturday as two area congregations, Dewar First Baptist Church and Henryetta Nazarene Church, joined hands to present a moving Live Nativity scene during ...
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H-Town Theatre Prepares for ‘Annie’
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H-Town Theatre Prepares for ‘Annie’
December 12, 2025
H-Town Theatre has officially kicked off preparations for its upcoming spring production of “Annie,” with cast members gathering this week for their first full read-through - offering an exciting glim...
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Christmas Dinner returns Dec. 18
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Christmas Dinner returns Dec. 18
December 12, 2025
For nine years now, the Henryetta Community- Wide Christmas Dinner has stood as one of the city’s most heartfelt and unifying holiday traditions - a simple idea that grew into something extraordinary ...
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Volunteers Brave Cold Weather to Feed the Vets
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Volunteers Brave Cold Weather to Feed the Vets
December 12, 2025
Last Thursday, the Feed the Vets volunteer group showed up and answered the call to issue food to 130 veterans in the snow and in 32 degree temperatures at New Life Church in Henryetta. Pictured are m...
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