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Years ago, as elementary students at a tiny country school, our bus driver took us to school in his huge station wagon. That meant we kids got to talk with him for an entire hour – both ways. Good-natured and chatty, he would entertain us as he drove. True stories, gigantic whoppers, or funny gossip, it was all fair game to that man.
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Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org.
Read moreWallace Byrd Middle School has released its honor rolls for the first semester of the school year 20222023.
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We live in a world where everything is based on comparisons, contrasts, and criticisms. Social media is a headlong, outof- control race to outperform and overshadow everyone. Unfortunately, social media is no more real than reality TV. Both are fictional farces designed to occupy our attention and divert our priorities. The obsession with impressing people who really don’t care about us is an exercise in futility. In reality, the only opinion of you that matters is the one you hold of yourself.
Read moreVoters in Coal County who want absentee ballots mailed to them for the March 7 Statewide Special Election should apply now, County Election Board Secretary Amber Fanning said today.
Read moreCoalgate man charged with malicious injury to property; arrest warrant issued A warrant has been issued for the arrest of 24-year-old Jacob Tye Pothoff of Coalgate for damaging his former girlfriend’s pickup on January 23.
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