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Happy Birthday To March 18: Michael Horntvedt, Leah Darr, Travis Walker, Even Burkhart, Julie Isenbart, Sandy Pierce March 19: Randy McMurphy March 20: Corby Bradt, Leslie French March 21: Pat Thompson, Dale Rader, Sherry Stansberry, Lana Burkhart March 22: Brianna Louthan, Bruce Stansberry, Karen Kurz March 23: Arly Eden, Hilda Craig March 24: Jena Daughhetee, Kale Pierce, Channing Joy Ferguson March 25: Dawn Schwartz, Mabel Schroeder, Jariah Fisher March 26: Roger Wagner, Travis Bradt March 27: Teresa Wares, Brett Sample, Misty Parker,...
Happy Anniversary To March 19: Mr. & Mrs. Gary Gerloff March 21: Mr. & Mrs. Harold Snow March 24: Mr. & Mrs. Bobby Gainer March 25: Mr. & Mrs. George Leist March 26: Mr. & Mrs. Larry Bradt (Note: Send corrections, additions to: freedomcallnews@gmail.com or call 800-305-2111)...
On March 14, the fourth Sunday of Lent, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude – Janell Reutlinger We are on Facebook live at 11 a.m. Our Facebook page is Freedom United Methodist Church. Invocation by Bruce Stansberry Moments at the Cross – Debbie Brown Call to Worship – Psalm 121 led by Shirley Wagner Opening Hymn – “Precious Name” led by Debbie Brown Affirmation of Faith Gloria Patri Hymn of Justifying Grace – “Where He Leads Me” Offertory Prayer by Bruce Stansberry Doxology The Morning Message – “The Ba...
March 9-19: OYE March 15-19: Spring Break March 23-25: FCCLA State Star Events in Stillwater March 26: 7th, 8th and high school track meet at Hinton (tentative) March 27: Prom March 31: FCCLA State Convention in Oklahoma City April 2: High school track meet at Watonga...
After a year of Covid-19 restrictions, Oklahoma's long-term care facilities are beginning to reopen to visitors. It could still be weeks or months before families are reunited. Last March, nursing homes, assisted living communities, veteran centers and other long-term care facilities closed their doors to visitors to protect vulnerable residents. Annual inspections were halted to limit the number of people coming and going. Even the state's ombudsmen, resident advocates who investigate and...
OKLAHOMA CITY – Beginning March 16, Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS) began accepting online applications for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Energy Crisis Assistance Program (ECAP) at www.okdhslive.org. Eligibility • Households that have received a 72-hour cut-off notice at the time of application, or an active cut-off order from their utility provider • Written notice from their utility provider for new service establishment or service restoration with minimum requirement security deposit, carryover debt or other fees...
ALVA, Okla. – For the better part of four years, Denton Mars has had his eyes on a certain prize. It finally happened this past weekend. Mars, a senior at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, won his first intercollegiate saddle bronc riding championship at the Fort Scott (Kansas) Community College Rodeo. Mars scored 73 points to finish in a tie for third place in the opening round, then spurred a horse for 76 points to win the championship round and the aggregate title. It was worth 155 points for the cowboy from Freedom, Oklahoma. ...
The Woods County Tax Roll Corrections Board met Wednesday morning with all members present. Board members are County Commissioner Randy McMurphy, County Assessor Renetta Benson and Bob Seivert. After approving the special meeting minutes of April 15, 2020, the board members discussed and approved corrections to assessed value for the 2020 tax roll. The first involved a business moving out of one location and into another. Both locations were originally assessed. Benson said the two owners split...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Responding to concerns from state officials, the U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday that states can cut taxes without penalty under a new federal pandemic relief law — so long as they use their own funds to offset those cuts. Republican governors, lawmakers and attorneys general have expressed apprehension about a provision in the wide-ranging relief act signed by President Joe Biden that prohibits states from using $195 billion of federal aid "to either directly or indirectly offset a reduction" in net tax rev...
Oklahoma women's basketball coach Sherri Coale is retiring after 25 years leading the program. The school made the announcement in a news release on Wednesday. Coale, a native of tiny Healdton, Oklahoma, is a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and will be inducted into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame this summer. She led three Oklahoma teams to the Final Four, and the Sooners reached the national title game in 2002. She is a four-time Big 12 Coach of the Year who led the Sooners to six Big 12 regular-season and four Big 12...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Leaders of a Kansas school district that is named for an early 20th century Ku Klux Klan leader have created an advisory task force to consider a potential name change. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the task force will provide a report, but not a recommendation, to the board for the Seaman district in Topeka. The issue gained attention after student journalists at Seaman High School used newspaper clippings from the 1920s to confirm last fall that the district's namesake, Fred Seaman, had been an "exalted c...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday that a measure approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature to rewrite Kansas' emergency management laws while limiting her authority during the coronavirus pandemic is "reasonable." Legislators sent her the bill Tuesday and she said she's inclined to sign it, "given what I know." The measure would preserve the control that legislators gave county officials last year over mandating masks and restricting businesses and public gatherings, and it would allow legislative leaders t...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Wednesday derided a proposed Kansas ban on transgender athletes in girls' and women's school sports as "regressive" as conservative Republicans prepared to advance it in the GOP-controlled Legislature. Kelly predicted ahead of a state Senate debate on the bill that the policy would make it more difficult to recruit businesses to the state. But supporters dismissed her criticism, and the measure was a priority for top Republicans in the Senate, where the GOP has a supermajority. Republicans i...
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man arrested in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol told the FBI that an officer shrugged his shoulders when he asked whether he could join the throngs streaming into the building and that he then filmed himself walking around inside, according to court records. Mark Roger Rebegila, of St. Mary's, was taken into custody Monday in Topeka on charges of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. No a...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — George Hanna has undergone 21 orthopedic surgeries since he left the U.S. Navy in 1990. They began when he severely injured his knee in a training accident at the Navy submarine base in Groton, Connecticut and then following a motorcycle accident after he left the service. In the years since he returned to civilian life, Hanna, 50, has been on a pain management program that, at times, has included 4000 milligrams of Motrin a day. He was recommended opioids to manage his pain, but refused. "You see what alcoholism and drug a...
NEW YORK (AP) — For Laura Shaw Frank, seeing her mother hug her daughter for the first time since the onset of the pandemic was a light at the end of the tunnel. "It just felt like all this love was pouring out and also that there was like this feeling of hope, like maybe there's a future, maybe we're going to get out of this," Frank said Tuesday about her mother and daughter embracing for the first time after becoming vaccinated. Evelyn Shaw, who lives about a mile from Frank's home in the Bronx and lives alone, spent a lot of time with her f...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — An exceptionally rare 15th century porcelain bowl made in China that somehow turned up at a Connecticut yard sale and sold for just $35 was auctioned off Wednesday for nearly $722,000. The small white bowl adorned with cobalt blue paintings of flowers and other designs — one of only seven such bowls known to exist in the world — was among a variety of Chinese works of art sold by Sotheby's as part of its Asia Week events. The names of the seller and buyer were not disclosed. Sotheby's had estimated the value of the artif...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Monday during a visit to El Paso, Texas, that, "It's more than a crisis. This is human heartbreak." Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday called the wave of migrants a difficult challenge but nothing new. Spin and semantics aside, migration flows to the U.S. from Mexico are surging in a major way for the third time in seven years under Republican and Democratic presidents — and for similar reasons. HOW HAVE FLOWS CHANGED SINCE JOE BIDEN BECAME PRESIDENT? Border enc...
ATLANTA (AP) — A white gunman was charged Wednesday with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community that's increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic. Robert Aaron Long, 21, told police that Tuesday's attack was not racially motivated and claimed to have a "sex addiction," with authorities saying he apparently lashed out at what he saw as sources of temptation. His parents called police after authorities posted his photo, helping lead to his c...
Americans will be getting extra time to prepare their taxes. The Internal Revenue Service says it's delaying the traditional tax filing deadline from April 15 until May 17. The IRS announced the decision Wednesday and said it would provide further guidance in the coming days. The move provides more breathing room for taxpayers and the IRS alike to cope with changes brought on by the pandemic. "The IRS wants to continue to do everything possible to help taxpayers navigate the unusual circumstances related to the pandemic, while also working on i...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Our solar system's first known interstellar visitor is neither a comet nor asteroid as first suspected and looks nothing like a cigar. A new study says the mystery object is likely a remnant of a Pluto-like world and shaped like a cookie. Arizona State University astronomers reported this week that the strange 148-foot (45-meter) object that appears to be made of frozen nitrogen, just like the surface of Pluto and Neptune's largest moon Triton. The study's authors, Alan Jackson and Steven Desch, think an impact k...
Asian Americans were already worn down by a year of pandemic-fueled racist attacks when a white gunman was charged with killing eight people, most of them Asian women, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors. Hundreds of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders turned to social media to air their anger, sadness, fear and hopelessness. The hashtag #StopAsianHate was a top trending topic on Twitter hours after the shootings Tuesday evening. “I think the reason why people are feeling so hopeless is because Asian Americans have been ringing the bell o...
DANDONG, China (AP) — China was expected to open the first trial Friday for one of two Canadians who have been held for more than two years in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a senior Chinese telecom executive. Canada said its consular officials were not given permission to attend the proceedings despite several requests. They have been notified that a court hearing for Michael Spavor would be held Friday, and one for Michael Kovrig would follow on Monday. China has not publicly confirmed the court dates, and calls to the court in D...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Top U.S. and Chinese officials offered sharply different views of each other and the world on Thursday as the two sides met face-to-face for the first time since President Joe Biden took office. In unusually pointed public remarks for a staid diplomatic meeting, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Communist Party foreign affairs chief Yang Jiechi took aim at each other’s country's policies at the start of two days of talks in Alaska. The contentious tone of their public comments suggested the private dis...
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the U.S. closing in on President Joe Biden's goal of injecting 100 million coronavirus vaccinations weeks ahead of his target date, the White House announced Thursday the nation is now in position to help supply neighbors Canada and Mexico with millions of lifesaving shots. The Biden administration revealed the outlines of a plan to “loan” a limited number of vaccines to Canada and Mexico as the president announced the U.S. is on the cusp of meeting his 100-day injection goal “way ahead of schedule.” “ I’m proud to announ...
