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By Melanie Evans, Ian Lovett, and Christine MaiDuc On New Year’s Day at Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center in Southern California, the overflowing emergency room spilled into the hallway. Doctors treated patients on oxygen in the waiting room after running out of beds.

January 5, 1971 SLANTS All county schools are back in session following the Christmas-New Year holiday period… Seminole Junior College returns to classes January 13, and other area colleges will start back in days following up to January 18… Al Knight of Maud doing a favor… Bob Jones giving some...

As of this advisory, there are 306,771 cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma. 3,455 is today’s 7-day rolling average for the number of new cases reported. There are 5 additional deaths identified to report. One in Cherokee County, one female in the 65 or older age group.

The Varnum Whippets started off the new year with wins from the Whippets and Lady Whippets Saturday the 2 nd . Varnum hosted the 4A McClain Titans and Lady Titans in basketball action Saturday afternoon.

DEAR ABBY: When my husband and I were first married, I had no idea why his mother and sisters were so hostile. When they started treating our children the same way, my husband finally addressed the issue.

Today is the fifth day of 2021 and the 16th day of winter. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1781, British naval forces led by Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold captured and burned Richmond, Virginia. In 1914, Ford Motor Co. raised basic wages from $2.40 for a nine-hour day to $5 for an eight-hour day.

Congratulations to these amazing Strother Public Schools teachers. They all work the after school program and received a t-shirt for having perfect attendance this semester. Way to go Mrs. Clark, Mrs.Barron, Miss Dillon, Mrs. Pollock and Mrs. DeFries.

The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission (OESC) continues to report a decline in continued and initial unemployment claims with the continued claims four-week moving average dropping for the 27th consecutive week.

birthdays Julene Brewer, Margaret Brown, Penny Clabom, Ernest Conaster, Jamie Driskill, Jeremy Hendricks, Joel Hill, Ron Hill, Crystal Huff, Vick Masterman, Jay Mize, Ora Mize, Julie Myers, Jennifer Nicholson, Randy Nix, Dana Pickett, Joel Sanders, Mary Seyfert & Rodney Soule.

Due to the continued increase in Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, Vamum Public Schools will not be in school January 4th_nth (no in-person or virtual). The school is planning to start back on a req lar schedule on January ll in. The four days will be made up with virtual Fridays.