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The economy is a mixed bag right now: We’ve recently gotten a surprisingly sunny job report and an official declaration of recession. Deb Boelkes says both facts should cue leaders to focus on employee happiness. Here are eight ways to get started. Happy employees are the best kind.

DEAR ABBY: I recently welcomed my third child, a baby boy who was wanted and planned. We are overjoyed. Our two daughters are just under 10 years old. Over the years, my social circle has consisted mostly of the parents of my daughters’ friends. Abby, my news was met with mixed reactions.

June 14, 1935 Whether a woman spectator‘s theft of the ball from Tudor Williams, their left fielder, is sufficient ground for protesting their 6 to 9 loss to the Higgs-Gypsy team yesterday afternoon will be directed today by the Noe Brothers softballers Elzie Snyder, Higgs-Gypsy, and Clark Craig.

A buyer has approached Seminole Public Schools with an offer to renovate its former high school located at 501 N. Timmons Street. Built in 1930, the building was operational up until 2015, when inspectors condemned it as unsafe and unusable, forcing students and faculty to vacate the premises.

Wewoka hosted a Black Live Matter protest Wednesday evening, as a large group marched from the Wewoka Civic Center down Okfuskee Avenue to Wewoka High School. Protesters were carrying signs and chanting, leading to a rally at the high school.

Birthdays Dan Aeshleman, Sandra Beach, Heather Cone, Dorothy Daugherty, Sheena Fixico, Andrew Keesee, Roxanne Nunnelley, Bob Peters, Elbert Simon, Corky Snodgrass, Alyssa Staley, Shawn Stevens, Ember Trager, Steve Walker, Angi Watters and LeAndra Wind.

In the latest sales tax report for June from the Oklahoma Tax Commission (OTC), there were five cities in Seminole County that showed a year-overyear increase in sales tax revenue and two cities saw sales tax monies decrease.

The Reynolds Wellness Center (RWC) is now open and operating normally with a few safety modifications, according to Executive Director Matt Pollock.

Blue Zones Project® by Sharecare is gaining momentum in Oklahoma with success in Pottawatomie County and an exciting new launch in Durant.

• Ensure that sparklers are legal where you live prior to purchase. • Sparklers are best handled by people ages 12 and older. Children younger than 12 require extreme supervision.