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Above, The “Super Flower Blood Moon” was visible over Seminole County late Wednesday night. A full moon, supermoon and lunar eclipse happened at the same time. The “Flower” prefix was given by Native Americans and settlers to North America. —Staff Photo by Bill Anderson

The Seminole County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) has called an election for the extension of a quarter-cent sales tax to fund emergency services in the county.

Wewoka Lake has a new set of rules for watercraft operators, and officials say the changes were necessary because the lake’s shoreline has been eroding.

The Oklahoma Congressional Delegation introduced a resolution to accurately tell the history of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and recognize Oklahoma’s historically Black towns.

Attorney General Mike Hunter has announced he will be stepping down as Oklahoma’s attorney general effective June 1. “It has been a distinct and absolute privilege of a lifetime to serve as the state’s attorney general,” Attorney General Hunter said.

Seminole Public Schools Special Education Director, Charity Boyer, recently awarded Holly Daniels for the amount of work she has dedicated to the special education program at Seminole Public Schools.

Four Oklahoma women are blazing new trails in big rigs. The women are graduates of the first truck driver training class for incarcerated women. The program is a partnership between the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.

May 27, 1971 Slants Doug Villines of Wolf and Oliver Stoup giving us needed info about rains at Wolf and Konawa last night… Rudolph Black saying that Wednesday night’s rains were fine and “let’s have more of the same,”…For the benefit of many callers the Decoration Day service at Little cemetery...

Robin Monetathchi is one of the many students able to complete her education using the valuable Chickasaw Nation School-To-Work program. It provided her the opportunity to pursue a fulltime college degree while receiving compensation and on-the-job training.

With the lifesaving potential of a bone marrow transplant comes an anxious few weeks of waiting to see if the patient begins producing new cells.