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At Freedom Public School students in seventh, ninth, tenth, and eleventh grades have been partaking in job shadowing staff around the school. The staff we job shadowed were our custodian, librarian,...

May Day is May 1. According to the internet, May Day is celebrated in many countries as a traditional springtime festival or as an international day honoring workers. In the 19th century, May Day took...

One way to prepare for scholarships is to take as much help as you can get. Every teacher at Freedom High School is willing to help you. It is a pain part of the time, because as you are working on...

If I had the chance to swap a day in life with anybody, it would be Bruce Lee. The reason I chose him is that his entire life was like a roller coaster ride of surprises and adversity. Many people...

Easter is a special holiday to most Americans and many foreigners for the reason that it gives people time to spend with their love ones. Easter's origin is still up in the air, but many people...

This past month the writing prompt on the board read, "If you could trade places with anyone for a day, who would it be and why?" I thought long and hard about it but I could not figure out for the...

When I got up this morning, it felt like it was an ordinary day, I was ready to get up, go to school and finish out the year. After I got up, I began to get ready for the school day, only to find out...

Thirty-year Freedom resident Jeff Brown has spent most of his working life driving big trucks. At one time, he and his wife owned four trucks and had several hired drivers. Recently, a friend in...

The Share Convalescent Home gross patient revenue for the month of March totaled $347,224, which was a $26,369 decrease compared to the prior month. The operating cash balance at the end of the month...

The postponed Freedom Town Trustee board was held last Friday. City maintenance man Stuart Page brought up a couple of topics about improving the city spaces in Freedom. The board had previously...

The Woods County commissioners worked through a few regular items of business such as minute approval and a water line crossing for D & B Oilfield service on County Road 470 ($1,500 fee) on Aline Blac...

Two of the three Woods County Excise Board members were present at the most recent meeting: Joe Shirley and Vice-Chairman Chris Olson. Bob Sievert was absent. They voted to approve the following...

Funeral services for Linda Carrico will be Saturday, April 14, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. at Hopeton Wesleyan Church with Reverend M.L. Hadsell officiating. Burial will follow in Freedom Cemetery at 3:30 p.m....

"Your 2018-2019 Miss Freedom is ... Cora Vaughan." Cora Vaughan was named Miss Freedom during last Saturday's pageant at Freedom High School. First runner-up was Allison Galindo and second runner up...