In January, HMS held the First Semester Academic Awards Assembly. Winners include: Perfect Attendance - First Semester: Elijah Calvin.

We have been on a wild rollercoaster ride of temperatures during the past week in Choctaw County. After high temperatures staying in the teens only a week ago, we enjoy 75 degrees on Tuesday. This was really a oncein-a-lifetime type system as temperature records were broken in the state that had stood for more than 100 years.

BOBBY AND BEVERLY HAMILL recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. The couple, who met as children and grew up on the same street, were married on Feb. 20, 1971 in Balch Springs, Texas. Together they have four children, 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

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Ever think you’d miss 2020? The past year wrought the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, supply and coin shortages, mask mandates, lockdowns, business closures, job losses, extreme social unrest; and one of the most polarized and radical political climates in U.S. history.

OKLAHOMA CITY — State Sen. George Burns, R-Pollard, is encouraging all Oklahomans to pause their automatic gas and electric payments for the next few months and instead pay their bills manually as customers brace for higher-thannormal utility bills due to last week’s brutal winter storm.

A mom and her child whose home had no heat. An older man who had suffered mild hypothermia and had no where to go.

Kiamichi Tech’s Practical Nursing program has been ranked as the sixth best LPN/ LUN program in the Southwest region of the United States for the year 2020. “As the only Oklahoma program to make the top 15 list, we are thrilled that the accomplishments of our instructors, staff and students are being recognized at this level,” said Shelly Hovis, Practical Nursing Director at Kiamichi Tech.