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Raynee Howell smiling, camera in hand, while doing an ‘on the job’ interview with an USACE ranger on the lake patrol boat at Keystone Lake in May. Photo by Allie Prater

Raynee Howell smiling, camera in hand, while doing an ‘on the job’ interview with an USACE ranger on the lake patrol boat at Keystone Lake in May. Photo by Allie Prater

All good things must come to an end

Raynee Howell
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
When J.D. Meisner, the publisher for Cimarron Valley Communications, called me an hour after my interview to ask me to be their summer intern, I responded with “Yay!”Who responds to a job offer with yay?Well, I guess I do.Now in hindsight, I can say “Yay!” was the most appropriate response.
Hidden in the Dark

Hidden in the Dark

Hidden in the Dark

News Staff
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Of course you’ve been there many times before. A dead-dark night when you have no electricity for some reason, so you light a candle. And immediately that thing shines like a diamond that has a heavy spotlight six inches from it. No mistaking where it is.
By Allie Prater

By Allie Prater

Don’t put the rocket before the horse

Allie Prater
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
As always, I am infinitely interested in history. I will always take a moment to learn about something new when the opportunity presents itself. And last week I learned something new that is very interesting.
By John Talley (405) 557-7304

By John Talley (405) 557-7304

Grants in House District 33

John Talley (405) 557-7304
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Recently, I had the great opportunity of notifying Racheal Condley, Director of Community Resourcing Inc., of a state grant they received. CRI operates Our Daily Bread & Resource Center and was awarded $105,169 through the Oklahoma Human Services’ Food Insecurity Grant Program!

Stocks Surge Despite Trump Assassination Attempt

News Staff
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
I had a business professor who was frustrated with our class and unexpectedly changed his test schedule. We complained that it wasn’t normal to change the test dates from what was printed in the syllabus, and he said, “That was yesterday’s normal; today's normal is a different normal.
“MY EYES! OH, MY EYES”

“MY EYES! OH, MY EYES”

“MY EYES! OH, MY EYES”

News Staff
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
If you see it, you can never unsee it. You hear it, it’s in your memory bank forever. Unless it’s the phone number to the pediatrician when your kid is running a 102 temp at midnight. But usually, everything you see and hear becomes part of you – good and bad. Kind of a scary, intimidating fact.
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A triumph for religious liberty

News Staff
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Oklahomans are celebrating a tremendous victory for religious liberty after a recent ruling by our state Supreme Court. At issue in the case was a fundamental question: Should taxpayers be forced to fund religious teachings that violate their own deeply held beliefs?

Remember When?

Marylee Meisner
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Do you remember when as kids we had to patiently listen to older relatives or friends of our parents as they told stories about their past? I realized that I have entered that stage of life.
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