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Dear Editor, In his letter to the editor on October 5 regarding the library, Commissioner Nick Lee raised two points that deserve a response. The first is why the library system doesn’t pay for the utilities at the Coalgate library. The Southeast Oklahoma Library System (SEOLS), like all other multi-county library systems in Oklahoma, depends on local entities, usually the building’s owner, to pay for building maintenance and utilities. That was the condition by which each of our 16 member libraries were accepted into the library system. In return, SEOLS provides all of the staffing, materials, furniture, equipment, programs and expertise required to operate the library.
Read moreDear Editor, I am a charter member of the Coal County Genealogy Society.
Read moreMy name is Stanley Buchanan, I’ve been around Coal County around 35 years. I am writing this on the behalf of my son, Edgar Buchanan. For some time now the evening shift of the Coalgate Police has harassed my son, Edgar, for over a year. So on September 23, 2022, they came up with some kind of a charge on Friday evening and booked him in the Coal County jail on Sunday afternoon September 25, 2022. He had gotten a hold of a bondsman and got bonded out of jail on a $1,000 bond. Well later on that evening on September 25, 2022 around 9:00 p.m. he got a knock on his door. When he opened it and stepped outside, I could hear him arguing with someone, so I opened the door to see who it was . Come to find out it was one of the police officers that had him put in jail. Officer Brown had took it upon his self with out being dispatched to my sons residence and the officer, Mr. Brown, was on duty . He did not have any right being there at all. Officer Brown went way over the line when he came to my son’s house to tell him he and another officer (tribal), come Monday morning, they were going to file assault charges on him.
Read moreTo the Citizens of Coal County: The article about the Coalgate Library that was in the newspaper last week, forgot to explain that the taxpayers of Coal County gave the Southeast Oklahoma Library System $561,214.50 to run our library in Coalgate for the fiscal year July 2021 until June 2022.
Read moreDear Editor, I would like to bring this issue of the Coal County Library to the citizens of Coal County, who with the aid of the tax-exempt, Genealogical Society, bought and paid for the renovations of the present library building for Coal County.
Read moreAn aphorism is a short, pointed sentence expressing a wise or clever observation or a general truth.
Read moreBy Kaylee McGhee White
Many, many years ago When I was twenty-three, I got married to a widow Who was pretty as could be. This widow had a grown-up daughter Who had hair of red.
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