Members of the Oklahoma Senate have rejected legislation, advanced from the Oklahoma House of Representatives, that would have padded many legislators’ own retirement benefits. Senators instead amended the bill to strip those provisions and essentially passed entirely new legislation that simply boosts the employer match for state workers’ retirement contributions.

While a spokesperson for State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister says Oklahoma public schools must allow students to use the bathroom of their choice, based on the student’s self-professed gender identity, and cannot restrict bathroom access based on biological gender, Oklahoma Secretary of Education, Ryan Walters, and Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor, are strongly in opposition to Hofmeister’s position.

Happy Anniversary to Dale and Georgia Harrison (April 11)! The Lions Club is hosting a community Easter egg hunt Saturday, April 16 at 2 p.m. at Ansley Park with giveaways and prize eggs.

Today’s Scripture: Instead of their shame my people will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace they will rejoice in their inheritance; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.

Much cooler temperatures move in for the middle of the week and I wouldn’t be surprised to drop to around 39 degrees by Thursday morning. Thursday and Friday are looking beautiful with sunny and 75 to 80 degrees. The weekend will be in the low-80s with just a few pop-up thunderstorms possible.

Sam Seimer, a senior at Fort Towson, recently signed with the Murray State College Rodeo Team in Tishomingo, Okla. Sam is pictured with Todd Smith, rodeo coach at MSC, and his parents, Charlie and Jennifer Seimer. Sam is a member of the Texas High School Rodeo Region IV Association and the National High School Rodeo Association.

Choctaw Nation Outreach Services alongside the city of Antlers will host a 5K run/ one-mile awareness walk on May 7, 2022, to remember missing and murdered Indigenous women. Indigenous women experience violence at an alarming rate.

Friday, April 15 Steak Fingers Potato Wedges Green Peas Rolls Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Wednesday, April 20 Roast Beef & Gravy Mashed Potatoes Purple-Hull Peas Corn Bread Peach Cobbler.

Felony 019 – John Patrick Varney: Peeping tom w/photographic/electronic equipment. 020 – Edmund Schmitt Giesbrecht: Safety zones around elem.

The Choctaw County Public Library announces that it has received a grant from the Pilcrow Foundation’s Children’s Book Project. The Pilcrow Foundation is a nationally recognized non-profit organization founded in 2013; its mission is to provide new, quality, hardcover children’s books to rural public libraries across the United States: