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Oklahoma’s 2021 Teacher of the Year is still in school — at East Central University. Jessica Eschbach, who currently teaches in the Norman school system, received the prestigious honor from the Oklahoma State Department of Education. The award has been presented annually since 1955.

Decisions surrounding assisted living facilities are not always easy. Men and women may be reluctant to leave their homes while family members may be worried about how their aging loved ones will adjust to life in an assisted living facility.

DEAR ABBY: My girlfriend and I call each other horrible, disparaging names as a form of “love.” Recently, I asked her to stop calling me names like that because it was fun at first, but now not so much. For me, it was just too negative. I love her, and I want to show it by my actions.

NEW LIMA SCHOOLS Monday - Breakfast: Breakfast burrito, fruit, cereal variety, juice variety and milk variety. Lunch: Sloppy joes, potato wedges, applesauce, alternate: Burrito, and milk variety. Tuesday - Breakfast: Breakfast pizza, fruit, cereal variety, juice variety and milk variety.

Above left, The President’s Leadership Class Women’s Leadership Luncheon was held at SSC on March 4. Featured speakers were (pictured l-r): Vice Chair of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Linda Capps, SSC Assoc.

A man with a prior felony conviction out of Arizona was arrested last week in Seminole after police responded to reports of a man walking around with a gun and assaulting a woman with a tennis racket. John Paul Hendley II, 33, was arrested on Feb.

Above, New Lima students Hesston Sipes and Bryton Colbert hand out apples on “Apple for the Teacher Day,” which was celebrated by the school in conjunction with Random Acts of Kindness Week.

Stephanie Taylor has been named as a new board member of the Academy of Seminole (TAOS). “Stephanie has a passion for effective education. She was active in assisting Advance Rural Education (ARE) during the approval process to open the Academy of Seminole,” TAOS said in a press release.

February Gross Receipts to the Treasury are down by less than one percent compared to collections from last year, but sales tax receipts are up by almost 8 percent, State Treasurer Randy McDaniel announced Wednesday. Collections from all sources in February total $950.

The Konawa Chamber of Commerce recently honored three city employees for their efforts to keep the water system up and running in bitter weather conditions brought on by February’s winter storms. Gifts of appreciation were presented to Mike Brimm, R.D.