After the heat index hitting 106 early in the week, it doesn’t look like it’s going to let up on us. Sunshine and hot weather are in our forecast from Thursday through the weekend, with high temperatures ranging from 98 to 102 degrees. Low temperatures will only drop to around 72.

Despite the challenges they faced to complete their education during a global pandemic, 220 Eastern Oklahoma State College students have earned their associate degree or certificate this year. Eastern’s 2021 graduates listed by county include: Choctaw County Kallie L.

Happy Birthday to Edward Roberts (July 31)! Students report to school on: Boswell: Aug. 2.

It has been common knowledge for years that all major developing countries have possessed the ability to conduct germ warfare. The Wuhan crisis is no exception. Was a virus created in the lab and deliberately leaked into the local wet markets for experimentation on the people of Wuhan? This is totally consistent with China’s poor record on civil rights and its complete lack of concern for all of the Chinese people. The virus created in Wuhan is by no means a poor reflection on all Asians especially Asia-Americans It is simply a reaffirmation of the Communist Chinese Government’s unconscionable disdain for human life. They are the ones to blame.

This week I have been criticized for my positions on Critical Race Theory (CRT), election fraud, transgender/gay marriage, vaccine mandates and media censorship. I am writing to officially declare my positions on these matters before my words are twisted by those who refuse to accurately report the truth and instead use the media to carry out their own social agendas.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will require its health care employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first major federal agency to implement such a mandate. “We’re mandating vaccines for Title 38 employees because it’s the best way to keep Veterans safe, especially as the Delta variant spreads across the country,” Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough said in a statement.

American scholar of Russian history, Suzanne Massie, was said to have met a number of times with President Ronald Reagan to build his understanding of how Russians think... during the mid-to-late 1980s when the two nations were engaged in talks of nuclear disarmament.

Melody Ann King, of Sawyer, Okla., passed away July 21, 2021, at the age of 54. Melody was born on Jan.

Funeral services for Billie Jean (Williams) Henslee were held May 24, 2021 at Blue Bonnet Hills Funeral Home Chapel in Colleyville, Texas. She passed away May 11, 2021, at the age of 93.

Funeral services for Jonathan Edwin David will be held at 10 a.m. July 31, 2021 at Miller & Miller Funeral Home in Hugo.