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Seminole State College classes are scheduled to begin Monday, Jan. 11. Special extended office hours will take place in an effort to provide students extra time to enroll for the 2021 spring semester. While classes begin Jan. 11, students may enroll for the spring semester through Jan. 15.

The first COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. require two doses a few weeks apart. People should get some degree of protection within two weeks of the first shot, with the second shot bringing about the vaccine’s full protection.

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In a rather inconvenient start to the new year, the Seminole Public School district has been forced to deal with a burglary at their Wilson Elementary School building, believed to have occurred sometime around New Years Eve.

The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is hosting a virtual open house to provide updates and get public input on the proposed widening of SH-99 south of SH-59 near Seminole in Seminole County.

Virtual Week at Wewoka Middle School has started back. The teachers are hard at work presenting live lessons through Google Meets and Google Classrooms. Mr. Taylor is pictured presenting his science lesson.

Federal authorities had planned to deal with protests this week with a relatively small, minimally visible presence, according to law-enforcement officials, hoping to avoid inflaming tensions as a show of force had done during unrest last year in Portland, Ore., and other cities.

The U.S. Trade Representative said Thursday it had suspended plans to impose tariffs of 25% on French luxury goods related to a dispute over France’s digital-services tax, citing investigations into digital services taxes in 10 other countries.

As of this advisory, there are 315,354 cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma. 3,488 is today’s 7-day rolling average for the number of new cases reported. There are 39 additional deaths identified to report. One in Carter County, one male in the 65 or older age group.

New applications for unemployment aid held nearly steady during the week of New Year’s, as an extra $300 in weekly payments kicked in from the coronavirus aid package signed into law last month.