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Happy Birthday To Sept. 20: Rena Powers, Mar Sample, Charlene Rohrer Sept. 22: Cody Ferguson Sept. 23: Lynn Haney Sept. 24: Neil Erisman, Sue Reed, Sandy Schroeder, Julie Wyckoff Sept. 25: Kelli Erisman Sept. 27: Vanessa Nailon Sept. 28: Donna Smith, Matt Bilyeu, Arlee Hope Reed Sept. 29: Zandi Rankin, Judy Smith Oct. 1: Zachary Craig, Christina Fisher Oct. 2: Nichole Costello, Chris Harris Oct. 3: Tera Darr, Jaden Lloyd Oct. 4: Crystal Wares, Victor Powers, Denise Province, Linda Kurz Oct. 5: Pake Carlson, Rita Coulter, Terry Christopher,...
Happy Anniversary To Sept. 22: Mr. & Mrs. C. R. Nixon Sept. 25: Mr. & Mrs. Wade Walker Oct. 11: Mr. & Mrs. Rod Bradt (Note: Send corrections, additions to: [email protected] or call 800-305-2111)...
The order of services on Sunday, Sept. 16, at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Shay Wilson was candle lighter. Announcements: Admin Council Meeting, Sept. 20, 6:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Bible Study will start on Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. We will be studying “Moses” by Adam Hamilton. Invocation by Pastor Todd Finley Call to Worship: Psalm 124 led by Shirley Wagner Opening hymn: “Blessed Assurance,” led by song leader, Debbie Brown Affirmation of Faith Gloria Patri H...
Northwestern Oklahoma State University held its annual Miss Cinderella Orientation session Sunday, Sept. 16, and welcomed 17 young women who will be representing their high schools from Oklahoma and Kansas during the 67th annual Miss Cinderella Pageant held as part of the school's homecoming celebration at the beginning of October. There will be a total of 19 young women competing in the pageant; two were unable to attend the orientation. Contestants and their sponsors met with the pageant...
The Town of Freedom's regularly scheduled meeting was held on Sept. 12. Shad Brackin, Terry Smith, and Rolando Galindo were present, along with clerk Cindy Reed, Bonnie Greer and Dawn Wares. The group discussed city ordinance letters that were sent out before moving on to review and ultimately approve minutes from last month’s meeting. Purchase orders for the general, fire and ambulance funds were accepted for approval as well. Before moving on to the discussions on the small cell tower, members talked about the retention of records for the Tow...
Dalton Reutlinger is a graduate of Freedom High School and lives in rural Oklahoma. He took up writing at a relatively young age and was originally inspired by the Naruto anime and manga publications. Reutlinger's first of two books, "Chris Lynheart: The Rise of Experiment 2025" (published by Xlibris, 2012), takes place in Washington, D.C., in the year 2020. Lynheart's only wish is to find his mother whom he has never met. However, conflicts keep him from fulfilling his dream including a new...
RUSSELLVILLE, ARK. – East Central University women's cross country red-shirt junior Anna Mora has been named the Great American Conference Runner of the Week for Sept. 19. Mora finished sixth individually and helped the Tigers to an eight-place finish at the Missouri Southern Stampede. She has also helped ECU to be ranked No. 9 in the United State Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Central Region poll. The El Paso, Texas, native finished the 5k race in 17:47.1 and was the top finisher from all the GAC runners at the event. T...
RUSSELLVILLE, ARK. – East Central University men's cross country senior Larry Filer has been named the Great American Conference Runner of the Week for Sept. 19. Filer finished seventh individually and helped the Tigers to a 10th-place finish at the Missouri Southern Stampede. He has also helped pace ECU to be ranked No. 10 in the United State Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Central Region poll. The Wichita Falls, Texas, native finished the 8k race in 25:16.3 and was the top finisher from all the GAC runners in a...
RUSSELLVILLE, ARK. – East Central University soccer junior Kariss Dunson has been named the Great American Conference Defender of the Week for Sept. 18. Dunson picked up the honor after the Tigers (2-4) split their final two non-conference contests. She led a defensive effort against Eastern New Mexico that gave up only seven shots, four on goal, in a 2-0 shutout victory. Against Angelo State, she led the team with three shots and two on goal. The Bixby, Okla., native has played and started in all six matches for the Tigers in her first s...
ADA – The East Central University volleyball team fell 3-2 (25-27, 25-16, 20-25, 25-11, 15-12) to Oklahoma Baptist in the second match at the Kerr Activities Center for the 2018 season. Set One: W, 27-25 Five tie scores/three lead changes The Tigers (0-16, 0-4 GAC) took an 11-4 lead Kept the lead around seven until late ECU lead 21-15 before the Bison (9-10, 3-1 GAC) went on a 6-0 run to tie the set at 21 Teams battled through ties at 23, 24 and 25 Tigers got the final two points on kills from Kaitlyn Coffey and a block by Karina Erreguin a...
ALVA, Okla. – Sandra Nabweteme's hat trick performance led the SWOSU Soccer team to their first Great American Conference victory of the season as they defeated Northwestern Oklahoma State, 6-1 in Alva Tuesday night. The first half started out quickly as the Rangers found the back of the net in the seventh minute of the game. The Bulldogs offense would not stay quiet long as Nabweteme would score her first goal of the game in the 21st minute knotting things up at 1-1. Nabweteme would put SWOSU ahead shortly after as she netted her second g...
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – The Bulldog Volleyball team put together one of their most efficient offensive performances of the season and handily defeated Southeastern Oklahoma State on Tuesday night at the Pioneer Cellular Event Center. SWOSU won the match in straight sets by scores of 25-15, 25-14, 25-15. Seven different players contributed a kill for the Bulldogs, who totaled 37 kills against just nine hitting errors for a .267 hitting percentage for the match. The Bulldogs had no more than four hitting errors in a set while holding Southeastern i...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – A day after winning his first collegiate tournament at the Northeastern State Classic, freshman golfer Francois Jacobs from the Arkansas Tech men's golf team earned Great American Conference Golfer of the Week honors. Jacobs opened up his Wonder Boy career in record setting fashion as he fired a 201 (-12) to win the NSU Classic by three strokes over Lindenwood golfer Yente Van Doren. Jacobs' 54-hole 201 total is the lowest in school history. The previous record of 203 was set by Austin Smith at the NSU Classic in 2016. J...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Greer Rogers turned in an 11-kill performance, hitting .304, Amanda Milnick dished out 27 assists and 15 digs in a double-double, while Meredith Darnell added 15 digs, but the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns volleyball team (8-7, 2-2 Great American Conference)was unable to ten blocks and virtually error-free play by Henderson State (14-2, 3-0) in a 3-0 loss to the Reddies on Tuesday evening at Tucker Coliseum. NEXT UP Arkansas Tech returns to action on Thursday, Sept. 20, facing UAM in Monticello. A 6 p.m. match is scheduled. H...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Arkansas-Monticello's volleyball squad finally ended it losing streak after 13 matches with a 3-1 win over Williams Baptist in the team's finale of a tri-match at Southern Arkansas on Sept. 18. The team very nearly ended the streak in the first match against the home standing Southern Arkansas Muleriders. FIRST MATCH - Southern Arkansas 3, Arkansas-Monticello 2 The Cotton Blossoms jumped out to a 2-0 advantage in the match after two closely contested sets, but SAU roared back in the third and fourth frames to knot the score a...
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Zuzana Ondruskova notched her fourth double-double of the season as the Reddies passed a major road test, and defeated the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns 3-0 (25-23, 25-22, 25-18). The win marks just the second time the Reddies have beaten ATU since 2007. It is Henderson's first sweep of the Golden Suns in Russellville since 2005. The Reddies (14-2, 3-0) have now won 13 straight matches; the program's longest winning streak since 1993. This is the first time Henderson has started 3-0 in GAC play in program history. Abby B...
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Despite having two players end the night in double-digit kills the Ouachita Tiger volleyball team fell in five sets to Harding on Tuesday evening. This is just the second time this season Ouachita (11-5, 2-2 GAC) has lost back-to-back games. Thankfully, the last time it occurred the Tigers responded with a straight sets victory in their next match. Harding (8-6, 3-0 GAC) got off to a lightning start, winning 12 of the first 14 points in the opening set. The Tigers tried to stop the bleeding a little bit, but quickly found t...
MAGNOLIA, Ark. – Southern Arkansas Volleyball entered Tuesday's tri-match inside the W.T. Watson Center having lost nine-consecutive matches, but behind a resilient effort to rally from two sets down to beat Arkansas-Monticello (24-26, 21-25, 25-20, 25-20, 15-10) in Great American Conference action coupled with a dominating straight-sets win (25-6, 26-24, 25-8) over Williams Baptist in the nightcap, the Muleriders concluded the evening with a pair of wins as several student-athletes delivered impressive performances. Southern Arkansas (5-10, 1...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole Board has denied a request to commute the 30-year prison sentence of a woman convicted of failing to report the abuse of her children by her boyfriend, who received only two years behind bars for the abuse. The board denied the request for 34-year-old Tondalao Hall, who was sentenced in 2006 after pleading guilty to failing to protect two of her children. The boyfriend, 35-year-old Robert Braxton Jr., pleaded guilty to abusing the children and was released on probation after receiving credit f...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An abortion-rights group says billboard along busy interstates in the Oklahoma City that say God and people of faith support women who have had abortions are supported by two Jewish rabbis and ministers of several non-denominational churches. The Oklahoma Call for Reproductive Justice says the messages went up Monday. Spokeswoman Emma Newberry-Davis says the billboards will be up for a month and weren't timed to correspond with any political activity, but noted they coincide with confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme C...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A swarm of thousands of bees sent a pair of Oklahoma City workers running for cover, and both were stung in the process. The Oklahoman reports the city workers were cleaning up brush and trees Wednesday when the insects were disturbed. Fire Department spokesman Capt. David Macy says one of the workers was stung about 15 times and the other just a few as they jumped into a truck. Macy says both workers were evaluated on scene and that their injuries didn't require a trip to the hospital. Oklahoma State Beekeepers A...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Three years after a health scare that nearly spelled the end of the line for a beloved Texas brand, Blue Bell has rebounded — and is, in fact, growing and expanding. The Austin American-Statesman reports the Brenham-based company, which got its start 111 years ago, shut down production for a time in 2015 and recalled 8 million gallons of ice cream after reports of listeria started coming in. In all, 10 people fell ill. Three died. During the shutdown, the company deep-cleaned its three plants — in Brenham, Sylacauga, Alaba...
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma city has passed ordinances to regulate medical marijuana that have drawn criticism from backers of the measure to legalize medicinal use of the drug. The Tulsa World reports the Broken Arrow City Council voted Tuesday night to levy a $2,500 annual permit fee on dispensaries and prohibit renters from growing their own marijuana without written permission from the property owner. Marijuana could also be grown only indoors in industrial areas. Tulsa attorney Ron Durbin, who represents the activist group G...
