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Like many days that came before it in 2020, Election Day figures to be unique this year. The global COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of life as people know it, and it figures to change how they vote this fall as well.
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On July 21st, 2020, a car accident occurred causing a serious brain injury to Bradley Bates, a student from Seminole. Bradley was in critical condition and had to be mediflighted to the hospital. On arrival he was not given much hope even if he survived the accident.
Read moreThe Oklahoma Hospital Association has outlined several key points for the public to understand about hospital ICU bed capacity and patient care during COVID-19, as well as what the public can do to lessen the strain on the hospital system.
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On Friday morning around 9 a.m. the Seminole Nation Division of Commerce opened an Aquaponics Facility.
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Unlike many countries, America is a free country, allowing us to express ourselves freely. When local, county, state, and national elections take place, we have the right to express who we’d like to win.
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If you take a sow out of the mire and clean it up and put a ribbon around its neck it is still a sow. If you take that sow to the county fair and it is judged to be a perfect specimen of a sow and given the blue ribbon, it is still a sow. When you get home and turn it loose, no matter how clean and prettied up it is, it will return to the mire and return to wallowing in the mud because it is still a sow.
Read moreWhile October is the tenth month of the year, its name suggests it is the eighth month. The “octo” prefix is Latin for “eight,” so why does the tenth month of the year begin with those four letters? When October was first given its name, people were following the original Roman calendar. The Roman calendar year began in March, which would make October the eighth month. September, October, November, and December’s names also were based on numeric value, as were the original fifth and sixth months of Quintilis and Sextilis. However, when the Julian calendar was adopted, January and February were added and became the first two months of the year. Quintilis and Sextilis were renamed at this time to honor Julius Caesar (July) and Emperor Augustus (August). Despite the addition of two extra months, the remaining numeral-named months’ names were not changed. This is why their names today no longer coincide with their true placement on the calendar.
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