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Today’s birthdays include Cody Arbuckle, Lewis Bada, Bill Baldwin, Sha Ballard, Heather Black, Alisia Fraire, Priscilla Freeman, Alyce Ellis, Verna Gallemore, Robert Haggard, Josephine Harjo, Linda Knight, Luther Liddell, Kay Magruder, Michael Meeks, Mason Morgan, Bill O’Connor, Anjelica Padilla,...

The Seminole State College Board of Regents has extended the contract of President Lana Reynolds, who declined to take a salary increase. The action was taken Thursday, Jan. 15, during the monthly meeting of the Regents in the Enoch Kelly Haney Center Board Room.

The Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum (JMCM) is appealing the denial of a change of venue request in a lawsuit over an explosion that injured a young museum patron last summer. As reported in the Dec.

- Heritage House Nutrition Center 210 College, Seminole. Now open for dine-in. -Monday- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (federal holiday) -Tuesday- Seminole Public School Board meeting, 5 p.m. in the administration building, 600 W. Strother Ave.

Today’s birthdays include Justin Brock, Greg Brooks, Terry Byerly, Cinda Fixico, Josie Gonyer, Julia Gosa, Guy Hammon, Jennie Ross, Melissa Sandlin, Hailey Sisco, Chebon Walker, Stacy Warrior, Della Weaver, Nakia Webb, Teresa White, Marico Williams & Frankie Wilson.

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Job Well Done

(Editor’s note: Durant Mayor Martin Tucker is a former Seminole banking executive). Rumors swirled late last year about a former Big Lots distribution center in Durant becoming a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.

The Oklahoma Department of Commerce announced this week that the Oklahoma Film + Music Office added six towns to the Oklahoma Film Friendly Community Program in 2025, bringing the total number of certified Film Friendly communities in Oklahoma to 43, which includes Seminole.